Puerto Maldonado, Peru: The Piedras Biodiversity
Center (affiliated with Tambopata Expeditions) is looking
for for 2 volunteers to help out with an amphibian survey
scheduled for November/December of this year. The project
will last about 6 weeks, and the work will be “quite
adventurous,” involving the night-time collection of
various frogs and toads in swamps and streams. Previous
experience is helpful but not necessary, and all volunteers
will be trained. This is a great way to get into the jungle
while helping a worthwhile project. It is also easy on the
pocketbook! If this sounds like the project for you, please
email Tambopata Expeditions at info@tambopataexpeditions.com
and visit their website at
www.tambopataexpeditions.com

Did you miss out on a Gap Year when you were 18
and are considering making up for it now? Have you always
wanted to be a TV star ? The BBC have asked us to help find
a number of mature (30 +) people who are wanting to
volunteer abroad and star in a documentary. The programme
will show how the various volunteers cope with the planning
and the assignment itself. It will focus on how they are
affected by the experience.

So if you have always wanted to volunteer abroad and be
a TV star, get in touch with us, Muir’s Tours now. We
provide a wide range of support to various communities in
Asia, Africa and the Americas. If you want to be one of the
8 BBC stars you need to be free to travel abroad during the
period December to March. The ideal candidates will be:

• over 30
• self-financing, or at least have a healthy budget
• planning to travel alone
• planning to leave in late 2003 / early 2004.

Get some ideas from our list of placements and then we
put you in touch with the Beeb. See http://www.nkf-mt.org.uk/volunteer.html