Highlights
- Learn about marine turtles and sloths.
- Simplify your life - back to basics.
- Enjoy the pura vida lifestyle on a breathtaking beach.
- Make unforgettable experiences.
About the Program
On breathtaking beaches you and other volunteers protect turtles that are in danger of extinction.
Volunteers play a crucial role in conservation efforts!
The Location
This program is located in the central Pacific coast, south of Quepos and north of Dominical, and it is right in the tiny village of Mata Palo. The beach – dark sand – is about 10 km long and 6 kilometers are patrolled by the volunteers of this camp to find mainly with Olive Ridley turtles and sometimes Green Sea turtles and some Hawksbill turtles. Compared to other turtle programs you will have some infrastructure here – a little supermarket, a little restaurant and there is a school that we plan to cooperate with. The coastline in this area is stunning and also very suitable for surfing. There is a surfschool right beneath the project.
And - help us to protect the most emblematic animal from Costa Rica: sloths!
Your help to care for the many animals with wounds or baby orphans you will find during monitoring. We rescue and provide first aid to take them to the rescue center located a few km from our camp, giving these creatures another chance at life. All procedures are carried out with a professional in biology who carries all the monitoring information, which helps us act in favor of these beautiful animals. You will learn a lot about them, as well as about many other animals around our beautiful beach, while we help preserve its kind.
You should be prepared for very simple living conditions and for sometimes physically demanding work at unusual hours as most of the turtle nesting occurs at night. If you love outdoor life ... you will see that every single turtle is worth it!
Our Volunteers
Our Volunteers should have a love for nature and fun with outdoor-living. They should be prepared for sometimes physically demanding work and work at unusual hours as most of the turtle nesting occurs at night. The volunteers should bring a sleeping bag, repellent, mosquito net, flashlight, batteries, rain protection (May - November), sun protection and a hat or cap.
Typical day
Your Tasks
You will be working between 4-6 hours every day:
Typical tasks can include:
- Patrol walks on the beach, mainly at night
- Find turtles and their nests
- Collecting data on the turtles
- Protect the eggs in safe breeding grounds (viveros)
- Freeing new born turtle babies
- Nest exhumations
- Your help is very welcome to construct and beautify the camp
- Data collection in contact with our biologist who will train you in field work with sloths
Details on Arrival
This program is available from July until December. It starts every Monday. Please arrive at least one day before the programs starts.
Free-time activities
Your camp is not far away from Quepos and Manuel Antonio National Park. For longer trips you should save your free days and make a journey at the end of your project time. There are amazing volcanos to visit, more National Parks like Monteverde, Rincón de la Vieja, and others. You can go for adventure tours - canopy or kayaking or rafting or tree climbing ... so much to do and see in Costa Rica! :-)
Snorkling
Program Requirements
Included Services
Before your journey
On-site services
We organize the journey to the project and we also do hostel reservations in San José if needed (mostly it is needed!) - and, if you will combine projects, we will also organize the transportation between the projects. You will have to pay the cost for the pickup and the transport.
You
will be picked up at the airport by our driver with a sign with your
name and you will directly get in contact with your german, english, spanish speaking coordinator via phone. The driver will drive you to the reserved hostel (if necessary), give
you the bus ticket (he will buy a ticket in advance to reserve you a
seat in the bus), pick you up at the hostel the day of your journey
to the project and bring you to the bus.
The
cost will be around 60 US$ plus the hostel night (between 10-12 US$
(dorm) and 30 US$ (single/double room).
You will be picked up from the bus by a taxi (ordered from the camp) waiting for you to bring you to the project.
You will be living with other volunteers in a simple dorm-room while the volunteer house is in construction.
Your food - breakfast, lunch, dinner - will be prepared in the camp and consists of the typical costarican cuisine: rice, beans, vegetables, meat and fruit.
Program Fees
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