As a volunteer at the Samburu Field Center, you help researchers on one or two of the projects currently being run in Lewa and Wamba. When you sign up, you can choose a team working on the projects of interest to you.
Your efforts will help determine the conservation value of community-owned ranches, and assess how threatened wildlife populations respond to community-level conservation and ecotourism.
Contribute to the conservation of a priceless landscape and essential part of our world heritage. Join a team!
Field Research in Samburu
Against the backdrop of phenomenally rich wildlife habitat, you will participate in several ongoing projects aimed at reducing competition between wildlife and local communities. On most expeditions, you will spend time in both the unprotected Wamba Division and in the protected Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, home to a population of 400 endangered Grevy's zebras as well as all of the classical African wildlife, to evaluate and compare conflicts both within and outside protected areas.
You may conduct field surveys of wildlife and vegetation, and map your findings to augment satellite images, locate and record data on vital local water resources and assess their aquatic ecology, determine the population status and habitat needs of threatened Grevy's zebras, or investigate the use of medicinal plants in local communities.
There are currently five projects in the Samburu Regional Initiative. Read more about the research and the volunteer experience at the Samburu Field Center.