2024 at Veterinary Clinic Assistant
Support Turtle Protection
Highlights
- Participate in an exciting volunteer project which is dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and contributing to their conservation and preservation
- Learn about their unique behaviors, habitats, and conservation efforts
- Join beach patrols during evening and night shifts, actively conducting searches for female turtles and their vulnerable nests, ensuring their protection from poachers and predators
- Connect with passionate volunteers from around the world, forming meaningful friendships and establishing lifelong connections through shared experiences
- Embrace the Greece lifestyle, surrounded by beautiful flora and fauna, actively participating in wildlife protection and creating unforgettable memories
- Participate in an exciting volunteer project which is dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and contributing to their conservation and preservation
- Learn about their unique behaviors, habitats, and conservation efforts
- Join beach patrols during evening and night shifts, actively conducting searches for female turtles and their vulnerable nests, ensuring their protection from poachers and predators
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About the program
Climate change, fishing and habitat destruction have pushed sea turtles to the brink of extinction. Join the turtle project on Crete to protect these beautiful reptiles.
Your placement is with a non-profit organisation that is committed to the protection of sea turtles throughout Greece. The established organisation has been in existence for almost 40 years, making it one of the oldest and most experienced of its kind. To protect the reptiles, the organisation ...
Typical day
Depending on where your help is most useful, your support may be needed in all areas of the organisation.
Potential tasks are for example:
- Monitoring beaches and hatcheries in day and night shifts
- Supporting research: collecting and recording data
- Dialogue with local residents and tourists
- Educational ...
Free-time activities
You certainly won't get bored on Crete, the island of the gods. Make sure you take time after your project work to explore Greece's largest island.
Heraklion, Crete's capital, is about twelve kilometres away from your project location. Highlights of the city are definitely its beautiful Venetian ...
Requirements
What's Included
What's NOT included?
Details on arrival
You will be picked up at the airport by a team member and taken directly to your placement. There you will first get to know the surroundings, your new place of residence and work, and your colleagues.
You can arrive Wednesdays and Sundays.
Program fees
Meet your organization
Rainbow Garden Village
Non-profit - founded in 1999
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Steffen
About the project
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