With the notion of responsible tourism becoming commonplace in modern society an ever increasing number of gap year travellers are deciding to work as conservation volunteers. Conservation volunteers give up all or just a small part of their time away in order to provide vital support to some extremely worthwhile conservation projects. These projects heavily rely on the goodwill of conservation volunteers to enable them to carry out their work - so if you work as a conservation volunteer on your career break your efforts really do make a difference.
What's more conservation volunteers gain just as much from the experience themselves. As well as the satisfaction of knowing that they're making a real difference on their gap year conservation volunteers also benefit by gaining a far more authentic travel experience. For example conservation volunteers often travel out to remote regions away from all the usual tourist sights, spending time in relatively undiscovered areas of a country that few other travellers venture to. Because they're living and working with local people on a daily basis conservation volunteers also learn far more about the local culture by experiencing it for themselves - something that's just not possible when your travel on more traditional sight-seeing itineraries.
GYFGU's has a hugely diverse range of conservation projects abroad that are looking for conservation volunteers to help them with their work all over the world. Full details on all of our `Conservation Volunteers' programmes can be found on this website. Alternatively, if you have any questions regarding any of our `Conservation Volunteers' programmes, you can always speak to one of our expert career break travel advisers.
GYFGU's has `Conservation Volunteers' programmes in the following four regions
GYFGU's has loads of superb conservation volunteer opportunities in Africa - including our new WWF-endorsed black rhino project in Zimbabwe.
Conservation Volunteers - Asia
GYFGU's also has some excellent conservation volunteer programmes in Asia - including our popular orang-utan ape project in Borneo.
Conservation Volunteers - Latin America
Some of GYFGU's most varied conservation volunteer programmes can be found in Latin America, several are which are located within the unique and beautiful ecosystem of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands.
Janet Horsley had an incredible time on her tailor-made gap year, blazing a trail through Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America, read her story here.
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