2024 at Leatherback Turtle Ambassador
Leatherback Turtle Ambassador
Complete your reservation as soon as possible. This project fills up quickly and is already booked on certain dates.
Highlights
- Join an exciting volunteer opportunity focused on the protection of endangered sea turtles, contributing to their conservation and preservation
- Engage in beach patrols during evening and night walks, actively searching for female turtles and their vulnerable nests, ensuring their safety from poachers and predators
- Care for the turtle eggs, providing the necessary support and ensuring they are ready for their incredible journey back to the sea
- Make the most of your weekends by exploring breathtaking beaches and immersing yourself in the rich Costa Rican culture, creating unforgettable memories
- Connect with passionate volunteers from around the world, forming meaningful friendships and establishing lifelong connections through shared experiences
- Join an exciting volunteer opportunity focused on the protection of endangered sea turtles, contributing to their conservation and preservation
- Engage in beach patrols during evening and night walks, actively searching for female turtles and their vulnerable nests, ensuring their safety from poachers and predators
- Care for the turtle eggs, providing the necessary support and ensuring they are ready for their incredible journey back to the sea
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About the program
Get in direct contact with turtles and help us conserve the biggest turtle in the sea! Here you will have the chance to meet and work with awesome animals!
Typical day
- 8:30 am: breakfast
- 12:30 am: lunch
- 9:30 am: communal work
- 2:30 pm: communal work
Free-time activities
Our volunteers will have the chance to spend their time enjoying the wild life and meeting many different animals.
Furthermore, they can do sports on the beach or simply tan and relax while enjoying a good book.
Also they can spend time together with the locals and enjoy getting to know a new ...
Requirements
What's Included
What's NOT included?
Details on arrival
Your arrival could be any days except for Sunday.
How arrive to Pacuare:
- In San Jose take the bus at the Gran Terminal Del Caribe (parada de buses de los Caribeños)
- Choose the 2 pm bus to Batan
- Get off the bus in Batan at this point: Soda y Heladería las Brisas and Berny, the taxi driver, will pick you up.
- From the dock Don Luis Gutiérrez will bring you to the camp
Costs of transportation $80 that include: pick up from Batan to the dock, boat trip from the dock to the camp on your arrival, on your departure boat trip from the camp to the dock and and pick up from the dock to Batan
If you prefer private transportation, feel free to let us know. We will organize one for $180, that include: pick up from the airport to the dock, boat trip from the dock to the camo, on your departure boat trip from the camp to the dock and taxi from the dock to Batan, from there you coud take the bus to San jose, or for adituinlncost nap cost taxi from the dock to San Jose or airport.
Program fees
Meet your organization
Tortugas de Pacuare
Agency - founded in 2012
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Luis
About the project
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