The 2020 volunteer season at Commander Islands Nature Reserve will last from April to September. This year, the reserve will need volunteers to help employees of science and environmental education departments, as well as for the improvement and development of tourist facilities and infrastructure on the islands of Bering and Medny.

We offer an interesting and intense volunteer work in the largest marine reserve of Russia. For volunteers, this is an opportunity not only to serve nature conservation on the edge of the earth between the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, but also to see the pristine northern nature of the Commander Islands.

Work in the village of Nikolsky on Bering Island

Department of Environmental Education

Position: 1 person (male or female)

Period: June 1 - September 30 (preference is given to volunteers who are ready to work for three or more weeks)

Responsibilities: assistance in the organization of environmental education and tourism activities

• Work in the souvenir shop (assistance in working with tourists)
• Creating content for social networks: photo, video
• Preparation of information material
• Children educational and tourist trips

Department of Science

Shore observations of marine mammals - an important part of the work of the scientific department

Position: 1 person (male or female)

Period: June 1 - September 30 (preference is given to volunteers who are ready to work for three or more weeks)

Job Duties: Helping the researcher observe marine mammals

• Perform mammalian feces analyzes to determine food items. Laboratory research
• Watching marine mammals from the shore. Field work

Conditions (for volunteers in the village of Nikolskoye)

• Escort, airport transfer
• Housing in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and in the village of Nikolskoye on Bering Island
• Free tours of the nature reserve after the chosen work is performed

Development work on Bering Island

Staraya Gavan Bay

This is what the utility area will look like on the shore of Staraya Gavan Bay after completion of the works

Position: 2 people (strictly men 18 years old or older, field experience is mandatory, the ability to work with a chainsaw, power tool and generator)

Period: Two weeks between May 20 - August 30

Job Duties: Arrangement and maintenance of infrastructure facilities in the area. Water area observation

• Utility area construction
• Installation of information boards
• Dismantling of local bridge
• Painting existing objects
• Water monitoring, collection of information on marine emissions, accounting and collection of garbage

Nepropuskovaya bay

Nepropuskovaya Bay on Bering Island  Photo: Alexander Shienok

Positions: 2 people (strictly men 18 years old or older, field experience is mandatory, the ability to work with a chainsaw, power tool and generator)

Period: Three weeks between May 20 - August 30

Job Duties: Maintenance and construction of infrastructure facilities in the area. Water area observation

• Dismantling of two dilapidated houses
• Utility area construction
• Construction of stairs
• General improvement of the territory (mowing grass, equipment of the campfire area)
• Water monitoring, collection of information on marine emissions, accounting and collection of garbage

Polovina Bay

The layout of the utility area to be built in 2020

Positions: 2 people (strictly men 18 years old or older, field experience is mandatory, the ability to work with a chainsaw, power tool and generator)

Period: Two weeks between May 20 - August 30

Job Duties: Maintenance and construction of infrastructure facilities in the area. Water area observation

• Utility area construction
• Costruction of stairs
• Relocation of the information board
• General improvement of the territory (grass mowing, equipment of the campfire area)
• Water monitoring, collection of information on marine emissions, accounting and collection of garbage

Severo-Zapadnoye Rookery

View on the eco-path near the Severo-Zapadnoye Rookery. Photo: Evgeny Mamaev

Positions: 2 people (strictly men 18 years old or older, field experience is mandatory, the ability to work with a chainsaw, power tool and generator)

Period: Two weeks between April and May

Job Duties: General improvement of the territory. Water area observation

• Renewal of the ecological trail (painting the trail and moving the entrance group)
• Replacing of information boards
• Harvesting of firewood
• Water monitoring, collection of information on marine emissions, accounting and collection of garbage

Conditions (for all landscaping works on Bering Island)

• Escort, airport transfer
• Housing in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• Transfer on Bering Island to the place of work and back to the village of Nikolskoye (once)
• Accommodation in two-person houses (with stove) on a self-sufficient basis
• Everything necessary for living in the field is provided
• Communication (satellite phone)
• Food provision (at the rate of 500 rubles per day)
• Provision of field clothing and footwear
• Tools are also provided
• Free tours of the nature reserve after the chosen work is performed

Field work on the island of Medny

Glinka Bay

Landing on Medny Island. Photo: Artem Komarov

Positions: 2 people (strictly men 18 years old or older, field experience is mandatory, the ability to work with a chainsaw, power tool and generator)

Period: May 15 - August 15

Job Duties: Infrastructure Construction Water area observation

• Chores
• General improvement of the territory
• Water monitoring, collection of information on marine emissions, accounting and collection of garbage

Terms

• Escort, airport transfer
• Housing in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• Transfer on Medny Island to the place of work and back to the village of Nikolskoye (once)
• Accommodation in the same house with the staff of the reserve
• Everything necessary for living in the field is provided
• Communication (satellite phone)
• Food provision (at the rate of 500 rubles per day)
• Provision of field clothing and footwear
• Tools are also provided
• Free tours of the nature reserve after the chosen work is performed

Details

The volunteer takes care of all transportation costs to Bering Island.

For instructions on how to get to the Commander Islands Nature Reserve, see  here  .

Do not forget to read the  list of  necessary items such as shoes, clothes and accessories for a comfortable life and work on the Commander Islands.

Send    your applications    for volunteering and see you soon!

You can ask question by writing to turizm@commanderislands.ru or directly to the specialist of tourism department    Camilla Belevkina    .