Volunteer Roles & Responsibilities
The volunteers’ main duty is to ensure that the living environment and diet of the animals under our care mimics their lives in the wild, as much as possible. To that end, the volunteers’ routine is centred around the needs of the wildlife, and not the other way around.
Volunteer Routine
Volunteers work five days a week, with Wednesday and Saturdays off. Apart from the activities in the routine specified below, other weekly activites include: night feeding for nocturnal species, coral cleaning, seagrass harvesting and day trips to our associated conservation programmes in the region.
6am
| Browsing & Bundling Volunteers collect and bundle fresh leaves for our resident primate species |
7.15am | Hand out morning browse and bundles |
8am | Breakfast |
9am | Team Birds, Primates or Bears Volunteers work with wildlife keepers to enrich the diets and enclosures of our resident cockatoos, parrots, deer, endemic macaques or babirusa. |
12pm | Lunch |
1pm | Wildlife Enrichment Volunteers put their creativity to good use creating food, sensory and and enclosure enrichments for the bears, birds and primates under our care. |
3pm | Hand out afternoon bundles, browse and enrichment |
3.30pm 4.00pm | Group tidying of living area End of work day (time to visit our private beach!)
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Skilled Volunteers
Do you have special skills or experiences that you would like to contribute to Tasikoki? (for e.g. veterinary medicine, welding, fundraising, social media etc)
Let us know in the volunteer enquiry form what skill you can bring to Tasikoki as either an onsite or virtual volunteer, and we will get back to you about how you can help!