You will join a team of international volunteers to help at a charity which has an award-winning approach working with the community to help them live peacefully with the wild elephants.

Volunteer tasks may include:
• Wild elephant observation and monitoring
• Bird and butterfly surveys and related conservation activities
• Maintaining the project’s butterfly conservation area
• Monitoring solar-powered community electric fences used to reduce elephant crop raiding
• Interviewing villagers about elephant activity and human-elephant conflict
• Assisting with the Community Citrus Tree project – planting and monitoring citrus trees which are used by villagers as elephant deterrents

You will visit the impressive Wasgamuwa National Park where you will have the opportunity to see elephants, water buffalo and sometimes you may see purple-faced langur monkeys, bears, deer and even leopard if you are very lucky!

You will live with the team on the outskirts of the Wasgamuwa National Park which is in central Sri Lanka. The volunteer house is in a stunning rural location with a swimming pool overlooking a lake and is nestled below the Knuckles mountain range.

You will stay in a bunk-bed dormitory.

All meals are provided.