Field Projects International

We’re excited to announce an opening for a Laboratory Technician at the Los Amigos Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru. This fixed-term position supports molecular biology and genetics research in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. If you have experience in molecular lab techniques and a passion for conservation science, we encourage you to apply. Applicant must have Peruvian citizenship or have established residency and approval to work in Peru.
🗓️ Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with a deadline of February 20, 2026.
🔗 Apply here: https://fieldprojects.org/lab-tech-application-los-amigos/

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¡Estamos convocando a un/a Técnico/a de Laboratorio para trabajar en la Estación Biológica Los Amigos, en Madre de Dios! Este puesto a plazo fijo apoyará investigaciones en biología molecular y genética en una de las regiones más biodiversas del planeta. Buscamos personas con experiencia en laboratorio y compromiso con la conservación. El solicitante debe tener ciudadanía peruana o haber establecido residencia y aprobación para trabajar en Perú.
🗓️ Las postulaciones se revisan de manera continua, con fecha límite el 20 de febrero de 2026.
🔗 Postula aquí: https://fieldprojects.org/lab-tech-application-los-amigos/

🌿🐆 Amazon Jaguar Festival 2025 🐆🌿

We’re excited to support our colleagues and friends as they launch the Amazon Jaguar Festival 2025, a community-led initiative headed by bringing together art, Indigenous culture, science, and conservation to honor the jaguar’s cultural and ecological importance.

📅 Dates & Locations
✨ Leticia (Peru–Colombia–Brazil): Nov 14–17
✨ Puerto Maldonado (Peru): Nov 25–29 (culminating on International Jaguar Day) 🐆

The jaguar is both a sacred symbol in Indigenous worldviews and a keystone species for the balance of the Amazon, yet it faces growing threats from deforestation and illegal trafficking. This festival is a community-led call to protect the jaguar, revitalize ancestral cultures, and inspire the next generation of environmental defenders.

💡 How you can get involved, even from afar:
🎁 Donate to the campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/festivaldeljaguar2025
➡️ Share this initiative with others who care about nature, Amazonian culture, and conservation!
🌎 Learn more: www.jaguarfest.org
🐆 Follow the initiative on Instagram:

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While domestic cats may rule our homes, their cousins are silently navigating the dense of the world, and their survival is key to their ecosystems.

🔬 Through , , and , we are able to:
🐆 Monitor patterns
🧫 Observe the spread of and pathogens
🧬 Bolster reference repositories, adding species previously not recorded

, Big impact. Beyond their beauty and ecological role as apex and mesopredators, offer us a unique window into the health and complexity of .

Considered "umbrella species", protecting big cats also hundreds of other species that share their . Studying them helps us conserve the unseen: fungi, insects, amphibians, and even carbon-capturing trees that thrive under the protection of intact, predator-rich forests. Most importantly, strategies can be developed fully rooted in . 🌎 Happy ! 🐱

Last field season, video journalists Georgia Krause (Seattle, WA) and Andrea Ramos Maldonado (Lima, Peru) were with the team at in Peru, capturing the lively and fast-paced activity of our research during the peak of the season. 🌿 We are very excited to share their final works!

There's more to it than just recording the action! 📹 To create final products like Georgia & Andrea do, hundreds of hours of footage must be meticulously edited for quality and, most importantly, for purpose. Will this video demonstrate detailed protocols for a scientific audience? 🧬 Will it tell a moving story of wildlife conservation to the animal-loving public? 🐾 Mastering this skill is key to effective scientific communication! 📝

Enjoy some photos and stay tuned for their final works!

Doctors’ orders. Get outside and enjoy the plant s*x.

You better hop to it! The deadline to apply for our Reptile & Amphibian Surveillance Program in Vietnam is just TWO days away - December 1st!⏰🐸

Few spaces left. Take the leap!

Reptile & Amphibian Surveillance Program: The Quick Facts 🐸
🗓️ Timing: January 5th - 18th, 2025
⏳ Duration: 2 weeks
📍 Location: Nghe An Province, Vietnam
📝 Applications: Due DECEMBER 1ST, 2024
🐸 Program Fee: $2,400 - Fee includes all local transport from Hanoi + food + lodging + instruction

To read more and apply, check out our website at https://buff.ly/48l4J7c!

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Congratulations to Rachel Voyt who just defended her PhD on genetic chimerism in wild tamarins at UT-Austin.

Chimerism is a fascinating phenomenon where an individual carries two or more distinct sets of DNA, often as a result of sharing cells with a twin during early development. 🧬 Though very rare in humans, it has caused some mind-blowing child custody legal cases. Its occurrence in tamarins is not rare, so we are eager to understand the role of genetic chimerism on social behavior, reproduction and survival strategies.

We are grateful for all the hard work that went into this and can’t wait for details to be released.

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The application deadline for our Reptile & Amphibian Surveillance program in central Vietnam is fast approaching - December 1st!

This research program with the Institute of Ecology and Conservation of Nature at Vinh University has several important objectives, including:

1) Monitoring how human activities (hunting, farming, and mining) are affecting nearby herpetofauna communities. This requires surveying sites along a gradient from ‘nearby’ to ‘far from’ villages in the Annamite mountain range.

2) Collecting animal richness and abundance data that, over a long time period (10+ years), informs us about the impacts of climate change, since herpetofauna are key indicators of ecological health.

3) Evaluating the status of Chytrid fungus, a pathogen that is present in Vietnam and can be highly detrimental to amphibian population survival, especially in conjunction with the factors mentioned above.

4) Utilizing samples collected by these surveys, building in situ molecular laboratory capacity for filling global gaps in wildlife genetic reference data, wildlife forensics, pathogen monitoring, and population genetic assessment.

We are accepting volunteers to assist in our January field survey that will help grow our working relationship with IECN, Vinh University, and contribute to this critically important wildlife research effort. Did you know that a large proportion of Vietnam’s herpetofauna are lacking an IUCN Red List status?

For more information and to apply, check out our website below!
https://buff.ly/48l4J7c

The ⏰ is ticking ever closer to the December 1 deadline.

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A remarkable and true story of three animals that rarely encounter one another in nature. 🦥

📸: .a.e.w

🕷️🎃 This Halloween, beware... 🎃🕷️

The scariest creature lurking in the shadows isn't a ghost or ghoul—it's a fungi! 🍄 Cordyceps is a parasitic fungi that takes control of the mind and body, turning its hosts into real-life zombies. 🧟🧠 Consumed from the inside out, victims become mindless wanderers, spreading fungal spores from high up until the end. 🐜

This year's team got up close and personal with the frightening fungi, and thankfully Cordyceps hasn't developed a taste for humans... yet.

Happy Halloween! 🕸️🦗

📸: found with and . All fungi collected with permits from Servicio Nacional Forestal SERFOR Peru