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Let's save the fauna of our Costa Rican wildlife

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The experience

This is a program dedicated to the conservation of sea turtles and the fauna of our Caribbean in general, through night walks we look for sea turtles, also when it is not turtle season we dedicate ourselves to community work, beach cleaning and farming, turtle season inaourtown called Barra de Pacuare, surrounded by pure nature, here you will have direct contact with nature and the authentic Caribbean of Costa Rica

What you offer

24 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 250 Per week

Fee pays for: Materials for volunteer activities and Donation to project

Description: La cuota de participación cobre, pago de staff, cocinera, biólogo, asistente, mantenimiento, alimentación, materiales de trabajo, pago de Internet, electricidad, agua, impuestos

What you get

1 day off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English or Beginner Spanish

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Make transects for forest monitoring
Monitoring of mammals
Placement of trap cameras, for the collection of video data
Colecting plastic on the beach ( we dedicate most of the program on this point)
Tree sowing
Construction of a nursery to germinate trees that will serve us for reforestation
We know that protecting our mother nature is not only about knowing her, but we must also act directly to protect her through different actions, such as collecting garbage on the beach to recycle it and creating endemic nursery reforestation emission areas that have been deforested by logging or the plantation of monocultures
Turtle season is running in our Caribbean site camp from March to september, rest of the mounts we do other kind of jobs as mantainance of the camp, beach cleaning, communal jobs

How to arrive to Pacuare
You have 3 options for your arrival to the Caribbean camp option 1:
On Jose take bus in gran terminal del caribe (parada de buses de los Caribeños) at 14:00 destiny Batan
Terminal Caribeños San José

9°56'27"N 84°04'44"W
Time approximated 3.5 hours
Get off the bus in Batan on this point
Soda y Heladería las Brisas
10°05'05"N 83°20'30"W
Here Berny will be waiting for you to bring you to the dock, approximate time by car 20 minutes
There in the dock place don Víctor will be waiting for you to bring you to the camp by boat, approximate time by boat 30 minutes cost of the car and boat transportation $80 per person round trip, that include on your arrival pick up from batan to the dock, boat trip from the dock to the camp, on your departure, boat trip from the camp to the dock and taxi from the dock to Batan
10°10'21"N 83°18'37"W
We reccomend to buy a Costa Rica simcard (the company wich works in pacuare it's Kolbi) to that way you can have communication I will

Activities & Shift

the activities changes daily, but I will list some of the activities from the camp and some other extra activities we carry out.
- hatchery shifts
- jungle path cleaning
- Night patrols
- flora and fauna monitoring
- Night jungle walks
- Environmental education talks
- beach cleaning
- camp cleaning
- yoga
- beach volleyball
- karaoke nights
- movie nights
- bonfire nights
And more

Of course not everything on the same day

Rules

Our rules are the basic rules of coexistence as it is a place of shared stay with the other volunteers.