Available Placements - Central, North America / Caribbean
View the placements we have in Central America, North America and Carribean.
Central America
View the placements we have in Ecotourism, Conservation, Humanitarian, Teaching, Research and Farms.
Ecotourism
Welcome to our tree house
Placement number:
0017
Location: Belize
Help out with our tours to all of the ancient Maya
sites and natural attractions in Belize. Volunteers als get the chance to lead
Horseback riding, mountain biking, canoeing, birding and interpretive naturalist
hikes which are all conducted within our nature reserve.
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Volunteer in Belize
Placement number:
0024
Location: Belize.
Help to promote and collaborate community tourism
amongst all small destinations in the Cayo and Stann Creek District.
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Unique Botanical Trail & Butterfly
Farm
Placement number: 0030
Location: Belize.
Help
with guiding and the upkeep of our trails and farm. We also hope
to promote our message of conservation.
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Volunteer with
Rum!
Placement number: 0076
Location: Belize.
You will be
cosseted in a spacious exotic setting nestled in your own oasis, a sculpted dome
Cabana within feet of the tranquil Caribbean or one of our air-conditioned
Garden Suites. The social hub of the resort is the Main Lodge, a colonial style
building dating from the 1950's. Here you will find the Library and the
magnificent, hammock hung Verandah! Here also is our seaside tropical Dining
Room where imaginative meals are created daily. Its not all luxury you
will be expected to work! but what a place too work!!!
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Volunteer at our remote, certified Costa Rican
lodge
Placement number: 0007
Location: Costa Rica
We are a
remote eco-lodge surrounded by the virgin primary rainforest of the Piedras
Blancas National Park and the Golfo Dulce in Southern Costa Rica, recently
certified with 3 Green Leaves by the Costa Rican Tourism Board for Sustainable
Tourism.
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Volunteer in Paradise!
Placement number:
0035
Location: Costa Rica.
This retreat is an exquisite retreat facility
and Eco Resort situated on 250 acres of virgin tropical forest overlooking the
Caribbean Sea in the marvelous country of Costa Rica. The artful balance
achieved within its environment makes it an ideal destination for nature lovers,
yoga practitioners, anybody looking for an exotic vacation
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Live on the Pacific Coast
Placement number:
0037
Location: Costa Rica.
On a gentle hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean,
this jungle lodge offers nature lovers an outstanding opportunity to experience
the amazing diversity of life in a lowland tropical rainforest
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Volunteer in the Costa Rican Jungle
Placement
number: 0067
Location: Costa Rica
If you're looking for a true tropical,
unspoiled jungle environment, where you can explore the ecosystem at your own
pace, come up to the northern zone of Costa Rica to our jungle hideaway.
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Volunteer at our ecolodge and research
station
Placement number: 0072
Location: Costa Rica
At the base
of the magnificent Monteverde cloud forest is a combination ecotourist mountain
lodge and research facility run by the University of Georgia.
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Learn about Sustainable Living
Placement number:
0111
Location: Costa Rica
Volunteer at our environmental learning and
sustainable living center, retreat and lodge located in the last virgin
rainforest of Costa Rica's Puriscal County. before they disappear.
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Guatemala Inn
Placement number: 0179
Location:
Guatemala
Our lodge is new (5 years) and small (12 rooms) located on the
shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.Its mision is to provide hospitality in
harmony with nature and culture. We make several efforts to be authentic.
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Honduras Ecolodge
Placement number:
0177
Location: Honduras
Our lodge is set amidst the most spectacular
scenery that you will see in Honduras. You will immediately be struck by the
immenseness of the lush green mountains that tower above you on all sides and
the panoramic view of the river. You are surrounded by National Parks, Pico
Bonito and Nombre de Dios and their vast rainforest ecosystem. Pico Bonito
National Park is the largest national park in Honduras , its highest peak is
2436m which many attempt to conquer but, you may choose to enjoy from our
riverside hammocks.
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Volunteer at this Eco Hotel
Placement number:
0006
Location: Mexico
Volunteer on the Gulf of Mexico with
breathtaking sunsets; to the east is the famous "Ría de Celestún", a salt water
inlet with unique flora and fauna.
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Volunteer on our Private Wildlife
Reserve
Placement number: 0064
Location: Nicaragua.
This is the
first private reserve officially recognized by Nicaraguan government. Help
us to conserve the last patch of Dry Tropical Forest at the
shores of the great lake Nicaragua. The reserve has an ecolodge, nested
inside the forest, the facilities are rustic but comfortable. The reserve is
secluded far away from civilization, no noise no telephone rings, no electricity
and no tv.
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Experience Panama
Placement number:
0180
Location: Panama
Our lodge is located 900ft over the Caribbean sea
level, at the north entrance of the Panama Canal. Its complex biodiversity
enclose 174 tree species per every 40 square mts., mammals, reptiles; a world to
discover while hiking through our trails with our experienced guide. A green
paradise for nature enthusiasts, located in a private tropical reserve of 200
hectares (494 acres).
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Conservation
Help to conserve the beautiful Scarlet Macaws
Placement number: 0032
Location: Costa Rica.
Help us to care
and reintroduce Scarlet Macaws. We have the largest collection of breeding
Great Green Macaws in the world.
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Volunteer at Biological Station
Placement number:
0033
Location: Costa Rica.
Proyecto Campanario is dedicated to preserving
tropical eco-systems, through protecting a tract of tropical lowland rain forest
and its coastal zones in Costa Rica, offering environmental education programs,
and promoting tropical research and studies.
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Sea Turtle Conservation Program
Placement number:
0036
Location: Costa Rica.
This program is operating two turtle projects
in the South Caribbean side of Costa Rica in the region of Talamanca.
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Turtle Conservation
Placement number:
0090
Location: Costa Rica.
We are a non-profit organization whose dual
aims are the protection of sea turtles and the improvement of the living
conditions of the local inhabitants. Volunteers guard beaches together with
locals, act as tour guides for eco tourists and assist with the various
agricultural activities.
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Improve your Spanish
while volunteerng
Placement number: 0147
Location: Cosat Rica
We provide the
best Spanish tuition in Central America and while you learn you can help out at
schools, orphanages and conservation projects! Sound good? Enquire
today and volunteer tomorrow!
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Support an Organic Farm
Placement
Number:0152 
Location: Costa Rica
This non-profit making farm
has the aim of spreading environmentally sustainable agricultural methods to
other
farmers in the area. Volunteers are required in a number of
agricultural areas including planting of trees, soil remediation, medicinal
herbs, terrace construction and biogas production.
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Help Turtles and the Community
Placement
Number:0159
Location: Costa Rica
There are three possible projects
here one helping to nesting leatherback, hawksbill and green turtles, help
identify and record new species for the newly named park and help design and
build nature trails through the lush tropical forests.
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Help protect the rainforest
Placement number:
0026
Location: Guatemala
Volunteer at this Guatemalan
non-governmental, non-profit organization committed to preserving wildlife and
its habitat.
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Help conserve the Iguana!
Placement number:
0009
Location: Honduras
In addition to the preservation of the Utila
Iguana and its critical mangrove habitat, other core goals of the project
include sustainable development of the island of Utila, as well as the creation
of environmental awareness among the local inhabitants.
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Turtle Conservation
Placement number:
0110
Location: Mexico
Help conserve the turtles of Mexico in our 3 week
placements!
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Humanitarian
International Youth Organisation
Placement number: 0217
Location: Worldwide
Age Restriction: 18 to 25
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Improve your Spanish
while volunteerng
Placement number: 0147
Location: Cosat Rica
We provide the
best Spanish tuition in Central America and while you learn you can help out at
schools, orphanages and conservation projects! Sounds good? Enquire
today and volunteer tomorrow!
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Orphanage in
Honduras
Placement
number: 0174
Location: Honduras
Centro Internacional de Idiomas Honduras
Orphanage volunteer project offers volunteers a marvelous opportunity to help
street children who have been rescued by child care organizations in providing
them with care, love, education, and recreation. Volunteers will be involved
with a wide range of activities that offer learning as well as love to orphaned
children.
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HIV/Aids awareness
Placement number:
0175
Location: Honduras
In recent years, Honduras has experienced a rapid
increase in HIV infections, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all cases
reported in Central America. Roughly 80 percent of all reported cases are
attributable to heterosexual transmission, and studies indicate that between 1
and 4 percent of pregnant women have been infected with the virus.
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Health care
Placement number: 0176
Location:
Honduras
Unfortunately, the public health care system in Honduras is one of
the worst in Latin America. There are very few good hospitals, and most middle
class families are unable to afford them. Therefore, able volunteers in our
Volunteer Honduras Health Project assist in local hospitals which are often
poorly-equipped.
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Teaching
Teach English to our local staff at our
Ecolodge
Placement number: 0007
Location: Costa Rica
We would
like volunteers to help us with teaching basic English to our native
staff.
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Educate about the Scarlet Macaw
Placement number:
0032
Location: Costa Rica.
We need volunteers to help teach in the local
schools about the plight of the scarlet Macaws and also find out exactly how
much information Costa Ricans have of the problems facing the Scarlet Macaw and
their ideas for solutions..
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Teach the local guides and school children at this
Pacific Ocean Jungle Lodge
Placement number: 0037
Location: Costa
Rica.
We are looking for volunteers who would like to teach our guides and
local children no formal qualifications are required but you must speak spanish!
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Educate about conservation at this ecolodge and research
station
Placement number: 0072
Location: Costa Rica
We want
volunteers who want to focus on teaching, this will be done informally in
workshop classes, lectures and during guiding. No formal qualifications are
required but must have suitable knowlodge of conservation and wildlife.
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Improve your Spanish
while volunteerng
Placement number: 0147
Location: Cosat Rica
We
provide the best
Spanish tuition in Central America and while you learn you can help out at schools,
orphanages and conservation projects! Sound good? Enquire
today and volunteer tomorrow!
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Teach the local children
Placement number:
0173
Location: Honduras
Our volunteer program in Honduras offers
opportunities for international volunteers to teach English to children and
young people attending primary and secondary schools in La Ceiba and its
surrounding areas.
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Research
Help us compile a botanical and bird list
enabling us to name the farm a reserve!
Placement number:
0030
Location: Belize.
We need a complete inventory of our farm to
enable us to name and protect the farm as a reserve! We also accept most
studies based upon butterflies and flora.
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Research reintroduction of Scarlet
Macaws
Placement number: 0037
Location: Costa Rica.
Come
here and you can research reintroduction programes of the Scarlet Macaw.
We also are a good example of ecotourism and conservation working
together!
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Research Station - sustainable tourism or
conservation
Placement number: 0072
Location: Costa Rica
We
encourage students who want to conduct their own research for their studies!
Topics could include conservation, ecotourism and sustainable practices.
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Research the weather or conservation
Placement number:
0111
Location: Costa Rica
Any relevant area of study is accepted, below
are a few examples:
Preservation/conservation, Reforestation, Sustainable
Community Development, Ecotourism and sustainable development, Insect
Collection, Aquatic environments & Weather indications
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Research Iguanas
Placement number:
0055
Location: Honduras
Helps us to conduct research into the
protection of the Iguana.
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Farms
Support an Organic Farm
Placement
Number:0152
Location: Costa Rica
This non-profit making farm
has the aim of spreading environmentally sustainable agricultural methods to
other
farmers in the area. Volunteers are required in a number of
agricultural areas including planting of trees, soil remediation, medicinal
herbs, terrace construction and biogas production.
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North America
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Ecotourism
Volunteer in the last Wilderness!
Placement
number: 0074
Location:Alaska
Volunteer at this sheltered oasis in
untamed Kachemak Bay State Park, the lodge lies just north of Tutka Bay and 10
miles by boat from Homer, the "Bear Viewing Capital of the World" and the
gateway town for the Kenai Fjords National Park, Lake Clark National Park, and
Katmai National Park.
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Get Paid! in the 6 Rivers National Park!
Placement
number: 0115
Location:Orleans
We have 5 cabins on the Klamath River in the
Six Rivers national Forest. This is the homeland of the Karuk Indian Tribe. On
our land we have a one and a half acre garden, a mail order bare root fruit tree
nursery, milking goats to provide us with milk and cheese and a flock of
chickens.
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Volunteer in the Rocky Mountains
Placement
number: 0083
Location: Canada
Help our tourists during hiking, horseback
riding, canoeing, whitewater rafting and fishing in the non-snow months
and cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in the winter. We are in a
relatively remote location, adjacent to Jasper National Park (east backcountry
boundary) and vast, undeveloped Willmore Wilderness.
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Conservation
Interested in Nature? then volunteer at
this Research Station
Placement number: 0016
Location: USA
In return for 24
hours routine work a week volunteers are offered free food and accommodation.
The rest of the time is set aside for research or guiding (Naturalists)
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Volunteer with like minded people!
Placement
number: 0019
Location: USA
Volunteer with people from all over the world!
work on projects such as trail building, education, and conservation throughout
the West.
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Experience the 'American Conservation
Experience'
Placement number: 0051
Location: USA
This volunteer
program brings together volunteers from nations around the world to participate
in rewarding ecological conservation projects in many of America's most
spectacular parks,including the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands and many
others.
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Help to conserve the islands of Hawaii!
Placement number: 0057
Location: Hawaii, USA
Volunteers help
to remove alien invasive plants whilst conserving the indigenous
ones in Koke'e & Waimea Canyon State Parks to preserve the spectacular
and unique natural resources of the area.
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Help factory farm
animals
Placement number: 0206
Location: USA
Our farm sanctuary is
the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. Since incorporating in
1986, we have worked to expose and stop cruel practices of the "food animal"
industry through research and investigations, legal and institutional reforms,
public awareness projects, youth education, and direct rescue and refuge
efforts.
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Volunteer in the USA
Placement number:
0212
Location: USA
We have projects suitable for everybody.
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Humanitarian
International Youth Organisation
Placement number: 0217
Location: Worldwide
Age Restriction: 18 to 25
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Volunteer in the USA
Placement number:
0212
Location: USA
We have projects suitable for everybody.
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Teaching
Volunteer in the USA
Placement number:
0212
Location: USA
We have projects suitable for everybody.
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Farms
Help factory farm
animals
Placement number: 0206
Location: USA
Our farm sanctuary is
the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. Since incorporating in
1986, we have worked to expose and stop cruel practices of the "food animal"
industry through research and investigations, legal and institutional reforms,
public awareness projects, youth education, and direct rescue and refuge
efforts.
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Carribean
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Ecotourism
Volunteer in the West Indies
Placement number:
0021
Location: Dominica
This is a small green globe 21 certified eco lodge
and sustainable living centre in a lush rainforest valley in unspoiled Eastern
Dominica is surrounded by pristine rivers with a backdrop of rainforested
mountains.
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Relax in Jamaica
Placement number:
0045
Location: Jamaica
Volunteer with the typical Jamaican spirit at Zion
Country! It is a tropical paradise, sheltered and nurtured within the Jamaican
district of Muirton in the community Long Road.
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Volunteer in Saba
Placement number:
0003
Location: Saba, Lesser Antilles
Our philosophy is to provide guests
and visitors with intimate contact of nature and the wilderness, whilst using
resources responsibly and causing minimal environmental impact.
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Humanitarian
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Teaching
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Research
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Farming
Revitalise Local
Agriculture
Placement number: 0209
Location: Grenada
This
community service program will start in Early Spring 2008 by building an organic
nursery -that does not yet exist in Grenada- to produce seedlings for short
crops as well as spice trees. The beneficiaries are -often older- farmers that
could not start up their farm because the access is still blocked and/or covered
with dead trees and debris, caused by hurricane Ivan in September 2004.
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