That's such a noble project to be involved in :3 I'd love to be able to help with conservation myself in my local area, but my anxiety is so extreme that I really struggle to cope with things if I don't have someone with me that I feel comfortable around, and aside from that, everywhere that's looking for volunteers to help protect nature and animals near me are in rural areas that can't be reached without a car >.< And guess what; I can drive... but I can't afford a car! T_T haha.
That really sucks that you don't get paid much for doing something like that though because it's such important work to protect nature! I really hope you don't have to sacrifice your savings to survive :( The world needs more people to stand up and give nature a helping hand :3
I'm planning to take part in a project in June run by one of our local wildlife charities to try and do one small thing a day to help nature + attempt to raise some money for them at the same time. If I were rich, I'd give most of my money to help protect animals and nature x3 It was actually my childhood dream to get into conservation, but there just weren't any sort of options available to get started in something like that back when I was a kid in my area, and at school, we were all told to be realistic and pick careers in things like retail >.>
Good luck with the project and everything in general :3