Conservation Internship in Costa Rica

The first twelve weeks of your internship will be spent living and working with GVI staff and other participants in Tortuguero park on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. Here you will complete intensive training to allow you to participate in the research projects on base. Our team in Tortuguero partner with local and international conservation organisations operating in the region including the Costa Rican Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (MINAET), Panthera, Coastal Jaguar Conservation, and the Sea Turtle Conservancy, and apply their methodologies to conduct forest biodiversity surveys, jaguar camera trapping, and nesting turtle research during turtle nesting season.  In the process you will master a range of technical skills from best practices for identifying species to how to set up a remote wildlife camera trap as well as more practical ones like how to maintain a forest trail. You will also gain in-depth insight into how conservation studies are set up and managed, as well as how data is collected, inputted, and analysed.