We are always looking for helpful hands around the animal sanctuary! If you are a student interested in gaining experience working with animals, below are some details of what you can expect from a work placement at Jungle Fortress Animal Sanctuary:

Handling

We have a wide range of animals ranging from tame to challenging. During your work experience with us you can expand on your handling techniques as well your confidence with working around a variety of different animals!

Enclosure Design

We are constantly changing and improving our enclosures, striving to fulfil all the needs and requirements of a particular animal. For example: heat, lighting, humidity, substrate, enrichment, and airflow throughout an enclosure must all be considered. Creating a species specific enclosure will be covered in detail.

Enrichment

At the sanctuary we try and make sure the animals are always occupied and have something to do! Enrichment of their lives is very important for their welfare. You may be involved in changing over toys for the parrots, food enrichment for the more exotic species, changing enclosure fixtures for the small mammals and social contact with the animals (Playing with them!).

Basic Husbandry

This is the daily running of the animal sanctuary, which mainly involves cleaning, feeding, watering and maintaining appropriate conditions (for example humidity and temperature monitoring). Additionally this also includes basic land maintenance such as fencing, housing, digging, sweeping and weeding.

Species Identification

As you will be working with a large variety of species on site there is a great opportunity to interact and learn about all kinds of exotic and domestic animals.