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Volunteer: Climate Change Mitigation, Agroforestry, and …, Greater London

Volunteer: Climate Change Mitigation, Agroforestry, and …, Greater London
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Job Details
  • Location: Tena, Ecuador
  • Duration: minimum 4 weeks
  • Start Dates: each month (enquire when applying)
  • Cost: $500 for the first week + $350 for each additional week
  • Fee Includes: all food, accommodation, pre‑departure and in‑country support, orientation, and all project related activities
  • Does not Include: flights, airport pickup, travel insurance, personal spending, visas and vaccinations
What You’ll Do
  • Learn about national and local efforts to mitigate climate change and support ongoing projects to diversify local farms
  • Implement environmental education programs and help make the region more resilient to climate change
  • Learn about Amazonian cultures and their connections to ethnobotany, agroforestry and plant medicine
  • Accompany locals into agroforestry farms (chakras) and plant, weed, harvest
  • Support communities with eco‑tourism projects
  • Hike into protected forests and participate in reforestation projects
  • Receive research and dissertation support from partner organisations and universities (if requested)
Benefits
  • Work with farmers, foresters, park rangers, and environmental engineers experienced in forest conservation, agroforestry, agronomy, participatory community development, social entrepreneurship and sustainable farming
Why This Opportunity?

This experience offers interns a unique chance to learn how ancestral knowledge and climate change mitigation can combine to conserve the rainforest, preserve cultures, generate income for local communities and combat climate change.

Keywords
  • field research
  • sustainable development
  • climate change
  • international development agriculture
  • forest conservation
  • community tourism
  • cacao industry
  • seed banks
  • indigenous rights
  • economic development
  • indigenous traditions
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