Wanted: Nature lovers

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Tue, 09/20/2005 11:47 AM | Life

Volunteers are needed to join Operation Wallacea to help monitor the vast national park of Wakatobi and survey selected areas of forest or marine life, including endemic species like the Napoleon fish.

All you need is ""enthusiasm and a positive attitude towards the environment"", the website says; the experts will provide the jungle survival or diving skills.

The most intensive months of the operation are in Europe's summer, the time that student volunteers fly in.

The operation is named after British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who discovered the ""Wallacea line"" dividing different biological zones of what is now Indonesia; Sulawesi is among the regions where the animals, in particular, are a curious mix of Asian and Australian fauna.

Volunteers pay some 2,000; excluding air fare, from whatever point of origin, which includes transportation from Kendari, for at least two weeks.

Check www.opwall.co.uk for further information. -- JP

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