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Name: Help Needed to Build Trail around Russion Lake
Location: Asia

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This ambitious conservation project involves building a hiking trail around Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest, largest and deepest lake. It ...

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Fieldwork at Yacutinga Reserve 

Title: World Renowned Ecolodge and Biological Station

We believe that there is a World-level need to preserve Nature while using it to generate economic resources.

The ecotourism-based activity is one of our economic keystones; yet, our sustainable use project encompasses other areas. Thanks to the recent building of the Yacutinga Biological Station and to the ...

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Title: Wilderness Lodge

****SORRY FULLY BOOKED FOR 2010. Please make contact to discuss volunteering in 2011****

Wilderness Ecolodge is a working hacienda with a wide variety of produce, encourages environmental education in local schools and promotes community tourism. We are located in a rainforest reserve. This is a great option for ...

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Title: Live with the Shiwiars in Ecuador

We are the Shiwiar people, enclosed by the Amazon jungle, living on the Pastaza river. We belong to the same cultural and linguistic tradition as the Achuar and Shuar. Our territory is one of the most pristine and isolated places in the Amazon basin, located near the Peruvian border and ...

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Title: Organic Farm in Ecuador

We operate an Organic/ Permaculture Farm located in the transition forest on the mid coast of Ecuador. It combines alternatives like solar power, biogas, permaculture and organic farming. The farm works in Education and receives community farmers groups, students, teachers and children who come to learn about sustainable farming ...

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Title: Teach Street Children in Peru

This is a recently founded non profit organization (NGO) operating in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, with the aim of giving aid and support to local children from impoverished backgrounds. A team of international and Peruvian volunteers provide food, classes and medical attention to children who would otherwise be on ...

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Title: Help disadvantaged children in Brazil

This orphanage is run by a non-profit organization with an aim of providing a full-time home to shelter children on a long-term basis. We are situated in the remnants of the ’Tingua Rainforest.’ It is an ideal setting; children are able to get away from the violence and poverty of ...

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Machia 

Title: Wildlife Refuge in Bolivia

This is a Bolivian Non-Governmental Organisation staffed by volunteers from around the world. It is Bolivia’s only refuge for abused wild animals. In 1996, the organization founded a wildlife refuge in "Parque Machia, Villa Tunari. In 2002 Quest Overseas made it possible to purchase our own land on which ...

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Nosy young monkey Bubulina 

Title: Black Howler Monkey Centre in Argentina

The centre is located at around 80 kms from Cordoba in the province of Cordoba.

The centre occupies 360 hectares in mountains, rivers, waterfalls and forests at 1,350 meters above sea level. The region is very remote, 11 kms away from the closest village of La Cumbre. ...

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Title: Various Projects in Venezuela

Our Eco-lodge is a Colonial style house, with red tiles roof, two new wings with eight rooms, each with private bathroom. Very safe and quiet surroundings, 25 min walking distance from town center.

Projects: All our projects are located in the Gran Sabana in the ...

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Title: Help NGOs in Brazil

Our operations are linked to many different Non Governmental Organizations - NGOs, with whom we develop volunteer programs to cater to the specific challenges these organizations face, while benefiting the communities they serve. Simultaneously, the programs provide gratifying experiences to the foreign volunteers as they witness the social and/or environmental ...

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Title: Spanish Speakers required to Volunteer at this Ecolodge in Ecuador

We are looking for people who are patient, kind, hard working, responsible and who want to be involved in working with a completely different culture. Each project or activity at our lodge has different conditions in terms of financing and responsibilities. So whenever you apply it is important to specify ...

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Title: Farm Lodge in Brazil

We are a very small and exclusive lodge in the heart of the Pantanal. Our main activities are organic beef ranching and nature tourism.



Conservation of the exuberance found here is one of our major aims, and therefor we’re always interested ...

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Volunteers searching for radio signals from bears 

Title: Bear Conservation in Ecuador

Our goal is to save the Andean Bear from extinction through in-field scientific studies and through the rehabilitation and release of captive bears. We monitor both wild and rehabilitated bears, by direct observation and through the use of radio tracking equipment. The project is part of a larger conservation ...

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Title: English teacher needed in Argentina

Our Lodge is not only an ecotourism undertaking in the Argentine Forest.

We believe that there is a World-level need to preserve Nature while using it to generate economic resources.

The ecotourism-based activity is one of our economic keystones; yet, our sustainable use project encompasses other ...

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Tandayapa Hummingbird Sanctuary 

Title: Ecolodge in Ecuador

Be part of our Eco-Adventure team in the Andes Mountains, located 17 minutes from Quito Airport at our 200 acre natural Botanical Reserve in the Pichincha Foothills. This is a unique opportunity to gain invaluable hands-on experience, working within the international eco-adventure community, share stories and possibly even make friends ...

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VOLUNTEER STORIES

This was a great adventure and sometimes like the show "Survivor." The work was sometimes challenging but very rewarding. Gandoca is fairly remote, but the community that the volunteers stay within is very ...

Anon, March 2008, Volunteer
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