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PERU
Volunteer Abroad in National Park Amazons: Ecological Volunteering Opportunities
Volunteering Abroad in Amazons: located in the southeast area of Peru, is one of largest parks in South America.
The area of the park encompasses parts of the Andean department of Cusco and the jungle department of Madre de Dios. It protects 2 million hectares (4.5 million acres) of a territory rich in flora and fauna species, and a variety of habitats including high Andes, cloud forests, and lowland tropical rain forests.
UNESCO officially recognizes this natural paradise as a world heritage site. This program is designed for a more adventurous volunteer, self-motivated and with extreme love for nature and ecological impact.
We offer the following programs in National Park Amazons:
Program Date: Flexible Start & End Date, you choose you
Work Schedule: Monday-Saturday, 5 hour per day
Accommodations: Volunteer bungalow
Meals: Yes, 3 meals a day
Volunteer Level: Hard, self-motivated, proactive, energetic
Requirements: 18 years +, Basic Spanish knowledge, an able body and caring spirit.
* To be successful volunteering with a local NGO you need to be able to motivate yourself. Regardless of the country and program, to get the most out of your time abroad you need to quickly get to know the placement.
Find out where you can be of the most help and jump right in. Sometimes you might be the only person working on your particular project. You will have to decide what to do and how to do it. While our ABV Directors and local staff are a great resource for getting ideas and talking about your plans, you shouldn't be surprised when they leave the big decisions up to you. Successful ABV Volunteers all have one thing in common: they take advantage of this freedom to design really excellent projects or manage existing ones and are capable of working hard without a great deal of supervision.
ECO-VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Conservation:
Help in all activities relating to reforestation, impact studies, flora inventory, transport and planting of mature sapling, follow up studies of mature sapling, value studies, fauna impact studies.
Monitor flora and fauna
Assist in creating an inventory of flora and fauna
Photograph flora and fauna
Manage the ecotourism lodge and Reserve in a sustainable manner
Carry out research studies
Animal Rescue Center:
We are implementing a rescue center for wild animals.
We need eco-volunteers to help with activities relating to the management of this center including feeding, behavior observations, building cages, maintenance, care and health of the animals, as well as activities relating to the possible reintroduction of animals back into the wild.
Social work in the local community:
Environmental education workshops for children and adults. (Spanish needed and you must plan the program)
Educational activities and workshops in local School. (Spanish needed and you plan the program)
Others:
- Medicinal plants, organic garden, orchid garden and activities, courses and workshops on certain dates.
Program Includes:
After arriving at the Cusco airport, volunteers will be transported to our volunteer house in Cusco. Here they will be shown their room and given a ¨mate de coca¨ (coca tea) to help their acclimatization to the altitude. For lunch they will be transported to the center of Cusco where after lunch there will be a meeting with the managers of the project to explain details to the volunteers and answer all of their questions. There will be free time after dinner to get to know the city of Cusco, after which volunteers will again be transported to the volunteer house. The next day at 5:00am they will leave by bus for the National Park.
On the final day, volunteers will leave at 8:00pm to take a bus from the national park to Cusco. They will be brought the following day directly to the volunteer house in Cusco (the bus stops directly at the volunteer house).
You must bring suitable clothes, mosquito nets, and boots, swimming suit, bug spray, sun blocker, lantern, plastic poncho, compass and other items that we will specify in the Travel Guide.
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Volunteer Abroad in National Park Amazons: Ecological Volunteering Opportunities
