Rainforest and Vegetation

Countries: Peru
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Our Conservation Project in Peru is perfect for anyone who is outgoing and has a passion for wildlife. Based deep in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, it offers volunteers the chance to get hands-on, practical work experience in the most diverse ecosystem on the planet.

Countries: Australia
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Get involved with hands-on conservation of the Australian wilderness! Working with outback experts, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the great outdoors and give you some handy hints for your time off

Duration: from 4 Weeks to 6 Weeks

Help to protect one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet! Head over the Andes into the Amazon to help and conserve threatened habitats creating sustainable communities.

Countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua
Duration: from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Join an incredible Raleigh International expedition and work in Costa Rica's National Parks, volunteers live and work alongside park rangers to help maintain and improve the national parks. These environmental projects are hugely important in helping to preserve natural resources and habitats and protect important species of plants and animals.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Winner of Best Gap Year Company in the Sunday Times "tour op challenge"

Countries: Ecuador
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Volunteer with Projects Abroad in one of the most species-rich countries on earth. Our Conservation project is based 1000km off Ecuador’s Pacific coast in The Galapagos Islands which are famous for their uniquely evolved wildlife.

Countries: Malaysia
Duration: from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Work on conservation projects in the heart of Borneo's primary rainforest as part of a Raleigh International expedition. The Danum Valley Conservation Area is one of Sabah's last areas of undisturbed lowland rainforest, home to six out of 10 of the totally protected animals including the Sumatran rhino, pygmy elephant, clouded leopard, orangutan and proboscis monkey Volunteer in this incredible virgin rainforest, helping assist international scientists with conservation projects and rainforest education in this amazing jungle setting.

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 2 Weeks

Spend one or two weeks at an inspiring sanctuary close to Chiang Mai. Here you will help to rehabilitate abused elephants, working hands on to bathe them, feed them and help out around the sanctuary, located in the depths of the Thai rainforest.

Countries: Venezuela
Duration: from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Combine living on a Caribbean Island helping renovating beaches and teaching in after school clubs with conservation projects on pineapple plantations before tackling a hardcore trek through the Gran Sabana... all in 6 or 10 weeks.

Countries: Peru
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

£75 discount for volunteers who combine more than one PoD project! Live in an award winning eco lodge in the heart of the rainforest whilst working alongside scientists and local experts helping to conserve the Amazon.

Countries: Costa Rica
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 26 Weeks

Countries: Fiji
Duration: from 3 Months to 7 Months

Few placements offer such a culturally rich experience. Volunteers become immersed in the traditional Fijian way of life while contributing to the local community. It will suit people who are proactive, outgoing and willing to think outside the box. The work can be challenging, the accommodation is basic and the food is quite alternative! However the whole experience is guaranteed to be truly exhilarating and enormously rewarding. Community placements in Fiji involve volunteers working in a variety of placements such rural district schools, kindergartens, centres for children with various disabilities and also assisting a local community to build a school for their children and conservation within a national park. All applicants are matched to placements to ensure that there is a good fit between the volunteer and their host communities. Lattitude Global Volunteering is an international youth development charity that has been sending volunteers on challenging structured and exciting voluntary placements around the world for 40 years.

Countries: Costa Rica
Duration: from 2 Weeks

If you are passionate about conservation, and want to try something completely different, then join Projects Abroad in Costa Rica and be sure to have the time of your life! Costa Rica is a country where there is extensive biodiversity. It attracts eco-tourists from all over the world. Barra Honda National Park is located just two hours away from the Costa Rican city of Liberia, and is home to some of the most unique opportunities for those who are interested in ecology or wildlife conservation.

Countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua
Duration: from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Countries: Australia
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Get involved with hands-on conservation of the Australian wilderness! Working with outback experts, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the great outdoors and give you some handy hints for your time off.