Volunteer to Care for Orphaned Kangaroos
If you are dreaming of a unique experience, volunteer at the Roo Gully Sanctuary and learn how to feed and care for joeys, young wallabies and maybe a recovering kookabura. You can also rebuild fences and do other construction jobs that Carol...
Volunteer at the Elephant Sanctuary
Get ready to learn about elephants if you volunteer with these rescued elephants. You will feed them, bathe them in the river and help with chores around the sanctuary PLUS eat some of the best Thai food around. It is an amazing experience and...
Sleeping with Elephants
During my trip to Thailand this past summer, I spent a night in the mountains of Chiang Mai at an elephant sanctuary.
This experience was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done while traveling abroad. Between the one-on-one time spent...
Give a little love to man's best friend...
Almost everyone who travels Central America comments on the state of the street dogs here. It's a heartbreaking problem that is exascerbated by the the lack of organization and education throughout the country. Luckily Georgi McColl and a group of...
Snow Leopard Conservation in Central Asia
In Land Rovers and on foot, climb Central Asia’s mountains in pursuit of snow leopards. Volunteers search for the elusive green-eyed cats by tracking their footprints, scat, and prey: the argali (mountain sheep) and the Altai ibex. The expeditions...
Escort Elephants in Thailand
Accompany elephants as they make their way to a “retirement” park in Northern Thailand after careers in trekking camps. The project is an attempt both to give the elephants a more pleasant, natural life andto rebuild the bonds between the animals...
Phnom Tamao Wildlife Sanctuary
She is blind in one eye and very sweet. I went here 3 years ago and the conditions have greatly improved. Hopefully more people will visit. Every dollar will definitely help them do more good work!
Chimp walk
Though most visitors to Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage (http://www.chimfunshi.org.za/) visit for a few weeks or more via an organized university group or long-term volunteer agreement, my renegade, four-night visit was a definite highlight of three...
Orangutan Rehabilitation in Indonesia
This riverside orangutan rehabilitation camp is usually reachable only by boat. For times when the Sekonyer Kanan River runs dry, volunteers are building a 2.5-mile boardwalk to the camp. Workers are often approached by two curious orangutans, a...
