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About volunteering for practical conservation and survey work
If you enjoy the outdoors and like to be active, you can get directly involved in conservation work at your local RSPB reserve or help with bird surveys across the UK. Join one of the teams of volunteers that work all over the UK and help to create, manage and monitor habitats for birds and other wildlife. Practical conservationThe work of volunteers is essential to the successful management of our reserves. In return for your time, you can learn more about wildlife and conservation, meet new friends, keep fit and watch your work benefiting the environment. You might be involved in:
‘Working on my local reserve has given me the opportunity to make new friends, use my skills, give something back to the community and care for the environment at the same time. It gives me great satisfaction to know that generations will continue to see and share in the diversity of nature due to this work’.
'It gives me great satisfaction to know that generations will continue to see and share in the diversity of nature due to my work.' If you are interested in joining in, contact your local reserve for details of their voluntary work parties. Survey workCould you help us to monitor the birds in your area? There are many bird surveys for you to get involved in. For many of them you don’t need to know much about birds as we can give you training before you start. One of our biggest surveys is the Volunteer & Farmer Alliance. Volunteers are paired up with local farmers to give a free survey of the birds on their farm. We can then give them information specific to their farm, so they can help birds that are declining. If you would like to get involved in any of our surveys, look through our vacancies, or contact us. 'All you do is look for and map birds. There is no canvassing. Whatever happens, you will have seen areas not open to others and know that you have done something to help our feathered friends and a local farmer.' Last modified: 17 August 2006 |
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Research Biologist Mark Eaton analysing data from the Big Garden Birdwatch - Andy Hay (rspb-images.com, Ref: 1016780 )
Volunteers collecting maggots from cow pats - Andy Hay (rspb-images.com, Ref: 1015438 )
Member of staff at work - Andy Hay (rspb-images.com, Ref: 1013917 )
Bird illustrations by Mike Langman (RSPB)