Costa Rica:
Natural reserve in the Caribbean Coast
Kamp Kodu
ACICRC17-20
Başlangıç - Bitiş Tarihi
09.06.2024 /
31.12.2025
Toplam Kontenjan
10
Boş Kontenjan
5
5
Yaş
18 - 99
Ekstra Ücret
€700.00
Kamp Temaları
ANIMENVIEDU
Organizasyon
ACI/COSTA RICA - ECO CAMPS
Kuruluş
The sea turtle conservation program is a scientific-based conservation activity in which the organizations involved try to increase the amount of sea turtle hatchings in order to give higher survival rates.
The camps are located within walking distances from the beach. Apart from the sea turtles, you will also have high chances of seeing tropical birds, iguanas, monkeys... The biodiversity is a very important point of these places. The main goal of these projects is to help the recovering of sea turtle populations. The species of sea turtles that you can find on these beaches are Olive riddle, Leatherback, Black or green sea turtle, Loggerhead, Hawksbill turtle depending on which project and season you visit.
Main Goals for the ASVO Tortuguero Sea Turtle Project:
- Collaboration work with the national park
- Monitoring and maintaining the ASVO Tortuguero reservation
- To patrol at day and night in collaboration with the National park
- To inform people about sea turtles and how to help them reach the sea
- To assist in the collecting of scientific data
- To maintain infrastructure
- To clean the beach and surrounding area of the town
- Community work
- Reforestation of the beach
- Building a little vegetable garden and a chicken coop for eggs
International volunteers support:
Tortuguero is a village on the Northern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica in the Limón Province. The small village, which can be reached only by boat or airplane, is sustained almost entirely by eco-tourism. The population is estimated at around 1200-1500. Tortuguero can be translated as Land of Turtles, and gave its name to the neighboring Tortuguero National Park.
The Extra fee indicated covers a period of TWO WEEKS, and includes:
- Transfer from the airport to a hostel in San Jose.
- Two nights in a hostel in San Jose, breakfast included.
- Orientation day, a day in which we give a cultural introduction to Costa Rica, safety and transportation recommendations, directions to the project and a tour of San Jose with lunch included.
- Accommodation and meals at the project.
The program has flexible dates depending on the availability of the project, with flexibility from 2 weeks to 4 months, but this includes an additional fee to the indicated fee.
İş Tanımı
Volunteers will be working in:
● Protect the flora and fauna of the jungle and the ocean turtle nesting at Tortuguero beach
● Monitoring and maintaining of the ASVO Tortuguero reservation
● Day and Night patrols in collaboration with the National Park Tortuguero and other organizations for collection of information about the sea turtles.
● Day walks to secure the safety of the eggs and hatchlings
● Boat/ATV rides into the wildlife refuge areas and the national park to assist the park rangers
● Inform tourists on how to deal with the hatchlings, what to do and what not to do
● Construction and reparation of the trails for public use at Tortuguero beach.
● Maintenance of the infrastructure of the project
● Cleaning of the beach and surrounding area of the Town
● Assisting the national park in his projects and his daily work (monitoring of animals, tramp-cameras, administration work, investigation work, social work etc.)
● Collecting seeds from the jungle for the greenhouse project
● Reforestation of the beach in order to protect the hatchlings from the light of the town
● Support in environmental education activities and communal protection
● Community activities (schools, high school workshops, festivals “Day of the Jaguar” etc.)
● Night patrols (3-5 days a week, 3-6 hours per night, depends on the season)
Konaklama ve Yemek
Hosting situation provided by the Project.
The accommodation is very simple and not a luxurious hotel. You will be sharing your room with several volunteers, of course you will still be having your own bed.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
The village is situated on a sandbar island, separated from the mainland by Tortuguero River and bordering the Caribbean Sea. Tortuguero is renowned for its navigable canals that run through the rainforest in the national park, and has such earned the nickname of 'Central America's Amazon'.
