Duties and activities that you will be involved with during the Zoo Section:
Working with Zoo keeper
You will assist the keeper in feeding, cleaning and maintaining animal areas. You will be on a rotation basis of primates but your main focus will be on Orang-utans.
Enrichment Work (for skilled only)
There is a small amount of enrichment work on condition that the keeper is comfortable to give you this task.
Working Hours
Your day will start at 8am and finish at 5pm.
Duties and activities that you will be involved with during the Jungle Section:
Remote trekking routes, in one of the few remaining Orang-utan habitats in Borneo, have been established in order to see these “Men of the Forest” and safeguard their future. It is this trail that you will be helping maintain. Your participation will help the Orang-utans and the local communities both economically and environmentally.
Ecotourism
Assist the local Iban tribes people and operators in repairing and creating jungle trails, and installing signage. Build a basic changing room near the Enseluai Waterfall and build a basic sitting arrangement for picnic lunch near Enseluai Waterfall. Help in general development of the Orang-utan trails.
Orang-utans
Carry out nest counts, record the results of research and the collection and recording of other insects.
Tribal Community
Maintenance and cleaning at Delok primary school. You will undertake some teaching of English to the longhouse adults during mid-week and school children during weekends. You will also need to give a helping hand with the daily activities in and around the longhouse.
You will work with the Bornean jungle tribe, the Iban, in the rainforest bordering Malaysia and Indonesia. Not many foreigners get to stay a long time here and people should be prepared to experience periods without Western faces.
Iban guides will also share with you many of their traditional jungle skills. Most importantly you will gain an insight into how modern Iban communities interact with the forest and its wildlife.
