Main tasks of the volunteer will be:
-Assisting in Biodiversity Monitoring together with Caretakers.
-Data Coordination and Analysis from the Camera Traps.
-Assisting in Eco-Trail Mapping, Eco-Routs Management.
The Volunteer will work on a rotational basis with WWF-Armenia
and its partner organisations: Arpa Protected (Vayots Dzor region),
Khosrov Forest State reserve.
The volunteer will spend initial 1-2 months at WWF-Armenia office
where he/she will be acquainted with WWF-Armenia projects, get
trainings on the field work and instructions on how to use related
equipment and software. The volunteer will go also at each
partner organization and help their staff with their daily work in
wildlife data coordination and analyis.

Do not worry about sleeping bags, as you will stay in hostels/buildings/cottages of the hosting organizations where you will be provided with beds/mattresses and bedding packs.
In Armenian camps you should be disciplined and organized. Making beds and keeping the rooms neat and clean every day is obligatory.

Volunteers will prepare the food by themselves. You will taste all kinds of Armenian traditional food, such as dolma, khorovats (barbecue), kiabab, khashlama, incomparable fruits of Ararat Valley - apricots, grapes, peaches, apples, berries etc. and vegetables.

Armenia is called an open-air museum. You will have lots of interesting excursions and visits to historical monuments and museums, which will be organized during the work camp.
The excursions to the following sights will be organized upon the decision of the camp and all the visits will be free. The proposed list of the excursions is the following: Echmiadzin Mother Cathedral, Zvartnots Cathedral ruins, Garni Pagan Temple, Geghard Monastery Complex with a program of World Heritage Initiative, Lake Sevan (with a barbecue on the beach). Volunteers will visit Matenadaran-storehouse of ancient manuscripts, Historical Museum of Armenia or National Gallery of Armenia, museum of famous film director S. Parajanov, Vernissage-Armenian big souvenirs market under the open sky.
Different games, Armenian dancing and language lessons will be organized in the workcamps.
Leisure time for joint workcamps are individual.

Armenian volunteers of your camp will meet you at the airport in case your arrival time is between 8:00-24:00 and will take you to the camp.
If your arrival time is after midnight, you will have to look for a bus to the center of Yerevan or take a taxi to the work camp.

It is very important to bring with you different board games, songbooks, and children’s songs to work with children and for using in the performances/concerts which will be organized on the last day of the work camp.
During the workcamp volunteers will organize the Intercultural days when each volunteer will present his/her country, so please bring photos and booklets describing your country, recipes of national dishes, products and spices and national songs.
You can bring your musical instruments, CDs with your favorite national songs and music and, of course, your high spirit and creativity.