Wildlife Volunteering abroad
Wildlife volunteering and conservation in Kenya, and Sri Lanka
Volunteer with turtles in Kenya, Sri Lanka
Turtle Habitat Restoration
Country: Kenya
Location: coastal Indian Ocean
Code: Ke-WC-MT
Weeks: 2 - 4 - 52
Project Description:
Volunteer with a grass roots community organisation recognised by the Kenyan Gov since 2009. This community based project operates in 2 coastal communities to safeguard turtle nesting beaches, restore the mangrove forests, and grow incomes through management of mangrove resources, such as crab farming, and developing tourism in this coastal environmental jewel.
Volunteers propagate & plant mangroves, monitor turtle nest sites, beach cleanups, and support the rehabilitation of turtle by-catch; and support crab farming in the creeks. Volunteers also identify mangrove creeks for canoe tourism, maintain walkways, work with tourists, as well as offering administrative and social media support. School outreach explains the importance of this work to children for the future.
Turtle Rescue & Hatchery
Country: Sri Lanka
Location: West Coast
Code: SL_WC_Tu
Days: 1 - 5
Project Description:
This turtle sanctuary was opened over 20 years ago by the fishermen of this beach village to support the turtles they found maimed by entanglement, and those caught in their nets. The rescue centre is also a hatchery, relocating the eggs after being called by hotels, and the navy or police from where they are laid on Colombo’s beaches, to escape predation by dogs, monitor lizards, and humans. This is becoming more necessary given Colombo’s rising population, and obvious loss since 2015 of beaches due to previous dredging for construction projects. Our volunteers love this wildlife conservation volunteering, and we recommend this as something you do on arrival, or before leaving from another project.
Wildlife Conservation Volunteering in Kenya
Volunteer with the Maasai’s Wildlife Rangers
Location: Maasai Mara
Country: Kenya
Code: Ke-WC-MM
Weeks: 4 - 52
Project Description:
Live amongst the Maasai, and Samburu, who have kept their traditional ways of life even as the world encroaches, making them the symbol of Kenya. Enhance and support the livelihoods generated through livestock farming in the Maasai Mara Conservancy Area. Support wildlife conservation on the Maasai Mara with game wardens and specialists.
Support the rangers as they monitor movements of domestic herds to ensure they avoid areas with lions, and don’t damage and overeat on the grazing lands relied on by the areas wildlife.
Experience life with the Maasai as they seek to keep their traditions and ways of life in a worlds that is changing around them,
Kakamega Equatorial Forest Wildlife Conservation
Country: Kenya
Location: Kakamega Forest
Code: Ke_WC_KF
Weeks: 3 - 26
Project Description:
Develop and protect the natural, cultural and heritage resources of the remnants of the last forest of its type in east Africa.
You will carry out reforestation projects (including nursery management - grafting, planting), as well as conservation work (butterfly, & fish farming, monitoring bio-diversity and habitat restoration), as well as supporting the development of agro-forestry with the local Luhya community. You will also conduct school outreach programs to inform about forest management, restoration, and sustainable agriculture,
Other activities include practical non-chemical pest and disease management, identification of herbs for pest and disease management in crops, village seed selection and storing, and at times, making Langstroth and Kenya top bar hives
