We are dedicated to participatory ecological restoration throughout the national territory but with a special presence in the Caribbean Region. We are looking for volunteers to reside in our El Jaguar del Carrizal Biological Station Reserve located in a rural area near Gaira (next to Santa Marta). The Reserve is part of the Jaguar Corridor (territory inhabited in constant transition by these cats) and therefore our efforts seek to provide an increasingly suitable habitat for them. For this; reforestation; soil restoration and recovery of a water source are underway in our reserve. Our strongest project now is Viveros Hermanos whose objective is to create a network of community and individual nurseries that reproduce the native plant species of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with special emphasis on those threatened locally and / or globally.
The activities in which our volunteers participate are:
Each volunteer offers 3 hours a day; 5 days a week (two days off). In addition to working hours; all the people who inhabit the reserve must participate in the kitchen shifts and cleaning and maintenance of the infrastructure that is for our comfort and also help carry the purchased food from the entrance of the reserve to the house.
Volunteers who stay for 3 months or more are given the option to write their own research project and dedicate part of their working hours to their project. Volunteers who stay less than 3 months usually do not have their own project and support projects that are in progress.
To acquire further information; including the application process; please email Coord_voluntariados@fundacionbachaqueros.org.
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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta/Magdalena
Year round
3 weeks minimum
Adults of both sexes and all ages; including families
It is important to be resistant to hot weather and steep ground.
We ask for a voluntary one-time donation at the end of the experience (the amount is decided by the volunteer). We also ask for a food fee; it is US$2; 5 on a daily basis.
