Volunteers Wanted

Thailand Leave a positive environmental footprint in Thailand.  Looking for volunteers to travel to Chiang Mai, Thailand who are interested in ecotourism.  Volunteers will spend 1-4 weeks working on reforestation of the land.  All efforts are combined with getting to know the elephants with initiatives to take elephants out of captivity and to live in their natural habitat.
For more information go to: www.surinproject.org

Guatemala
The Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association (ARCAS) is a Guatemalan NGO working to conserve endangered wildlife and its habitat in Guatemala. Its paid volunteer
program helps support these conservation efforts. At its Wildlife Rescue Center in
Peten, volunteers are needed to feed and care for confiscated wildlife, including
parrots, macaws, howler and spider monkeys, kinkajous, taras, ocelots, margays, deer
and coatimundis. At its mangrove and sea turtle project in the area of Hawaii on
the Pacific coast, volunteers asist in the conservation of olive ridley and
leatherback sea turtles, conducting nightly beach patrols, collecting eggs and taking research data. For more information, please contact ARCAS at
arcasvolunteers@gmail.com or visit their website at www.arcasguatemala.com

Nicaragua

We would like to get a volunteer with ecotourism or hospitality background that would like to live in Nicaragua.  We can offer free room and board and maybe help with the airline tickets to Nicaragua.  Someone with experience on hospitality administration, service to the public and kitchen/bar experience would be great.
Contact Juan Carlos Espinosa at jc@haciendapuertadelcielo.com

Ecuador
Volunteers needed for a community ecotourism project

The small community of Piedra Blanca is found on the western slopes of Ecuador's Andes, some 7 hours from Quito, and 4 hours from Guayaquil. The village has recently developed a community owned ecotourism project that seeks volunteers with a background in tourism, ecotourism or sustainable development. Volunteers are needed to help manage and oversee tourism operations and advise the local people how to improve the tourist's experience. A potential volunteer would also get involved in marketing both the village in addition to the region as a whole, which has much untapped tourism potential. 

This is an unpaid, challenging and highly rewarding position that might last anything from 2 months upwards to a year. You must be proactive, mature, enthusiastic and speak at least an intermediate level of Spanish. You will need to cover the costs ($10 a day) of your food and lodging, and you will live with the Ecuadorean family of the president of CRACYP, a local NGO involved in various grass routes sustainable development projects in the region. 

To find out more information or discuss your options with past volunteers, email volunteer@piedrablanca.org or see www.piedrablanca.org/volunteer-jobs.htm .  

Volunteers Seeking Positions

I am a French student in my third year at an International School of Commerce and Developpement, EICD 3A in Lyon, France. During a four month period starting the 8 of May, I have the opportunity to realize an internship in a company. I would love to intern with an eco lodge in Belize. Please email me for further information: Audrey Deves or audrey.deves1@ecole3a.fr