Interested people are encouraged to apply for volunteering all year-round. Based on the ongoing projects, volunteers are assigned work which may include helping out with management of the field station too. Volunteers will have to pay a certain nominal amount to cover their food and accommodation charges at the field station. They are expected to abide strictly by the rules. Interested people can send an email to research@agumberainforest.org for more details and to apply with a CV and a Letter of Intent.

  • Short term volunteering: Volunteers who stay for less than 15 days. (Upcoming Projects)
  • Long term volunteering: Volunteers who stay for more than 15 days up to the end of a project. (Ongoing Projects)
  • Internship: Long term volunteers taken in for specific projects which might be part of their academic requirements. (Upcoming Projects)

Volunteer Contribution

  • Visual Encounter Survey
  • Library Maintenance
  • Bird Bathing Observation (season-specific)
  • Outreach Initiatives
  • Overall Development of the Research Station
  • Personal Projects

What our volunteers do for us

The mural created on our library wall by Xilona Blanco, from the Netherlands, in 2012. She visited ARRS again in December 2023.