Our interns are an essential part of NVT’s conservation work. Across each programme, there are active projects where interns can contribute, learn, and make a tangible difference.

In addition, we have several project ideas we are eager to develop — offering motivated interns the opportunity to help lay the groundwork, shape new initiatives, and get meaningful projects off the ground.

Explore the opportunities below to see how you can get involved and be part of impactful environmental work during your time with us.

Baboon Research

Longer-Running Projects that Interns can contribute to during their time at NVT
Project/Idea	Intern Role
Medicinal Plants	Identifying medicinal plants in the baboon diet and their properties
Invasive Plants	Identifying, categorizing, and mapping invasive plant parts that are eaten by the baboons
Food Availability	Creating and completing phenology transects; with Rudi/Forest
Valley Foods	Mapping the locations of naturally-occurring and human-introduced baboon foods growing in the valley; Possibly collating data from Skye’s project and creating a survey to add more information
Social Behavior	Contributing to long-term behavioral monitoring; individual projects TBD by student interest
Health Monitoring	Contributing to daily observational health checks and working with the longterm health data (includes female reproductive status)
Body Size	Using multiple methods to measure body size through photgrammetry with an emphasis on developing baboons
Camera Trapping	Deploying the camera traps to monitor large mammals at different places around the valley; Could also help with monitoring other social groups (e.g. Hebron)
Group Chat Data	Data entry, management, and analyses relying on the group chat reports of baboons in and around Nature’s Valley
Group Demography	Maintaining long-term records of birthday and deaths from our daily records/observations