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Our Experience as Tree Inventory Volunteers in the Atlantic Forest

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We’ve only stayed at IPBio for a short period, just one month, but this blog-post aims to share some of our experiences from that perspective, and talk about the general process of sorting out a Volunteering stay here in Reserva Betary. Firstly, what’s the place like. We’ve done similar types of programmes in different parts of the world and we can safely say that the accommodation and ease of arrival is the most comfortable we have experienced. And fortunately for potential volunteers, this is only going to get better. During our stay in May 2017, construction was under way for a new and bigger house to expand the Volunteer program. The setting is idyllic if you like the natural state of things, as the Reserve is in the heart of the remains of the Mata-Atlantica in the modern state of Sao Paulo, with the rustling of trees, the rushing river and bird calls being the sounds of the day. Foremost IPBio is a research facility aimed at documenting and evaluating the biodive