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Volunteers can take part in ‘The Sweep’ a week long trash removal effort created in partnership with 18 other groups and organizations from around the Great Lakes basin.

Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper® protects and restores Buffalo’s water and surrounding ecosystems for the benefit of current and future generations. BNW protects clean water, restores the health of ecosystems, connects people to water,  and inspires economic growth and community engagement.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Buffalo, New York, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Volunteers are housed for a period of time, whilst caring for the horses.

In 2006 Amanda Simpson and Stathis Katsarelia formed the Skyros Island Horse Trust with three horses and the aim to protect the Skyrian Horse in its homeland. The organisation now looks after 36 Skyrian Horses and are looking for volunteers to help look after the horses.

Here’s a typical day in the life of a volunteer during the summer months (times vary during winter):

7.30 First muck-out of the fields, fill water buckets, assist with feeding
8.45 Breakfast
9.45 General stable jobs such as sweeping out/organising the stables, grooming, cleaning water buckets, assisting with showing groups around, etc. OR free time depending on what’s happening each day.
12.30 Help with feed and water.
13.30 Lunch and break
18.00 Final muck-out, water, feed
19.00 (If volunteers are interested and there is sufficient time) Lunging, riding, halter training, handling, carriage training, etc.
20.30 Dinner

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Greece, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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WorkAway Volunteering opportunities available.

Tenerife Horse Rescue is an eco horse and animal sanctuary set in the quiet coast of Arico, Tenerife, a fully registered, NGO non-government funded charity founded in 2018.

Tenerife Horse Rescue specialises in force free training methods. Rehabilitating and training horses with positive reinforcement to give them a voice. This will be done in a relaxed, safe and natural environment to live out the remainder of their lives relaxed and happy.

Horses are the main focus, but the organisation haven’t stopped here. The animal sanctuary has a huge array of abandoned animals, all rescued from the island. For example, dogs and cats, birds, ducks, guinea pigs, goats, pigs, tortoises, hamsters and more. In addition, the organisation is also a big advocates of sustainability and all of the rescued animals are kept in a fully sustainable, eco-friendly and volunteer run sanctuary.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Tenerife, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Volunteers can join monthly clean up dives.

Eco Dive is a full service 5-Star PADI 100% AWARE Scuba Diving & Freediving centre offering training in both English and French. Services include Scuba Diving trips and PADI training, snorkeling and freediving excursions, and watersports including kayaks, standup paddle boards and more.

Eco Dive are committed to providing fun, safe and professional activities that increase awareness and appreciation of the natural world.  Eco Dive take a lot of pride in Grenada’s natural marine beauty and are proud to participate in the 100% AWARE programme donating and actively participating in ocean protection.

Eco Dive is not just a dive shop but a Grenadian owned and operated dive shop making a difference. With three full time Marine Biologists on staff Eco Dive is continuously combining the teaching of diving with the evaluation, monitoring, protection and education of tropical reef and coastal ecosystems. With years of reef conservation and restoration experience such as coral nurseries and transplantation, the company is armed and ready to make your diving excursion more than just a dive, but an unforgettable learning pleasure.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Granada, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Volunteers are need for general assistance on the farm, and to provide love and care to the animals.

Associaçao Bamboo is a small, privately funded sanctuary for donkeys and unwanted dogs located in the Western Algarve (Portugal). Over the years we have rehomed over 300 dogs, but for each one that we find a loving home for another one arrives to take his or her place. All our dogs and donkeys have access to regular human contact, which includes daily energetic exercise over private farm lands. Food, water, cleaning and necessary veterinary services are provided by volunteers and subsidised by local charities. We always need financial support, volunteers (even if only during a holiday stay in Portugal), and unwanted items. Please read these pages to see how you can help.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Portugal, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Volunteers are needed to help monitor beach swimming water quality through the beach watch programme, identify and report pollution problems, monitor Common Tern populations, help with events and office projects, and much more.

Save The River was formed in 1978 to protect and preserve the ecological integrity of the Upper St. Lawrence River through advocacy, education, and research.

Leading Advocate for the St. Lawrence River
Since 1978 Save The River has been the leading grassroots advocacy organization working to protect the St. Lawrence River.

As the region’s only environmental watchdog group, Save The River takes an active role in River policy issues. Over the years, Save The River has fought to stop winter navigation, expansion of the St. Lawrence Seaway infrastructure, pressed for better spill response planning and sought public accounting of shipping accidents, and campaigned for better water levels management.

In 2004, Save The River was designated the Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper and is a member of the international Waterkeeper Alliance.

Volunteers can help in the preparing of food, feeding the dogs, cleaning the paddocks, providing the dogs with attention, and the many other jobs that come with working at a shelter. Scooby will provide with an accommodation (subject to availability) in a shelter for long term volunteers. Scooby also welcomes the expertise of veterinarians.

For more than 30 years, Scooby has been providing shelter to abandoned and mistreated animals. In the nineties we brought to light the atrocities inflicted on galgos (Spanish greyhounds). At present, Scooby is the biggest shelter in Spain, currently homing more than one thousand dogs and cats, and two hundred farm animals who live in the sanctuary. The organisation has several shelters in the region of Castilla y León, namely in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Zamora and Palencia.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Spain, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Volunteering opportunities in observation and fieldwork, environmental education, and providing assistance at events, the wildlife centre, and the information centre run by the organisation.

ARCTUROS is a non profit, non governmental, environmental organization (NGO) founded in 1992, focusing on the protection of wildlife fauna and natural habitat, in Greece and abroad.
The foundation of ARCTUROS was driven by constant need to solve the problem of bear and wolf imprisonment; a common occurrence at the time.

Thanks to the help of dozens of volunteers, ARCTUROS takes actions to protect and manage wildlife and the natural environment. ARCTUROS also coordinates volunteer exchange programs in collaboration with the General Secretariat for Youth and the European Voluntary Service EVS.

As an ARCTUROS volunteer, you will participate in:

1. Fieldwork (radio observation of bears or wolves)

2. Work at the bear and wolf shelter (assisting visitors, feeding, and taking care of the animals at the shelter, manual labour, maintenance of paths etc.)

3. Environmental education activities (activities with students or groups of children in schools and other educational institutions).

4. Public awareness campaigns (events and exhibitions) throughout Greece.

5. The operation of ARCTUROS’s Information Centre for the Brown Bear in Nikios School of Nymfaio.

During the volunteering programme (minimum 15 days) you will be provided with accommodation and training.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Greece, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Volunteers can get involved with shoreline cleanups, habitat restoration, aquarium & education, and event support.  

Save The Bay is an independent, member-supported, non-profit organization. Established in 1970, when a small group of concerned citizens came together to fight an oil refinery proposed for the shores of Tiverton. Their work began a legacy as the eyes, ears and voice for Narragansett Bay. Today the organisation’s mission is carried out through three areas of work: advocacy, education, and habitat restoration and adaptation.

Every year, more than 4,000 volunteers play a vital role in every aspect of Save The Bay’s work—from supporting special events and tackling beach cleanups to assisting administrative housekeeping, habitat adaptation and more. Without volunteers, the organisation couldn’t accomplish all that they do to protect and improve Narragansett Bay. Whatever your interest, whatever your availability, chances are there’s a volunteer opportunity to fit your needs!

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Rhode Island, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Hurtigruten guests can get involved with conservation and education programs whilst on board a Hurtigruten Expedition.  

The Hurtigruten Expeditions Citizen Science Program has one goal: To increase your curiosity, knowledge and interest of the areas you are sailing to.

Hurtigruten’s expedition ships serve as the perfect platform for scientific research; With access to remote regions of the world and on-board experts, they can provide invaluable data to the scientific community – with the help of the onboard guests!

Guests are invited to participate in science activities, developing a greater understanding of the region in which they travel, becoming true ambassadors, and returning home to champion the protection of our planet’s most fragile ecosystems. Some of the projects run onboard many of the ships, which guests can get involved in, include:

1. Seabird Distribution with the Antarctic Site Inventory — Surveys throughout the Antarctic Peninsula help scientists understand how seabirds are using different habitats and provide valuable information about their life cycles.

2. Cloud Observations with the Globe Program — By observing and recording cloud cover timed to NASA satellite fly-overs, guests can help scientists understand how surface and air temperature are affected by cloud cover, and how clouds will respond to a changing climate.

3. Happywhale — We assist in tracking individual whales throughout our world’s oceans by harnessing the power of whale watching enthusiasts – our guests – expanding our scientific knowledge of their behavior and distribution.

4. Sea Leopard Project — A non-profit study aimed at a better understanding of the behaviour, ecology, and population dynamics of Leopard Seals on the Antarctic Peninsula to promote their conservation and safe human-seal interactions.

5. Fjord Phyto — Study phytoplankton to better understand how they respond to water temperature changes in the polar regions, providing a key to help mitigate future environmental impacts.

These programs are continuously running and Hurtigruten try to run at least 2 projects on each departure.

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Volunteers are welcome to visit the shelter to play with or take the dogs on walks, or even help clean the shelter.

Gouves Animal Shelter is located in Gournes, Crete, Greece. Originally this area was an American military base and the Shelter building was a kennel for the military´s dogs. You can still see the name tags, of the previous occupants, on the oldest kennels.  From this small kennel, the shelter grew to the new structure, it is today. They have around 50 bigger kennel places and 20 smaller ones.

The dogs here are eligible for adoption as well as sponsorship.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Crete, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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Volunteers can get involved with research, such as counting fish and taking samples, clean up, planting trees, and weeding invasive plant life. 

Since 1952, the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) has been a powerful force for positive environmental change in New England. Connecticut River Conservancy is the voice for the Connecticut River watershed, from source to sea. They collaborate with partners across four states to protect and advocate for rivers and educate and engage communities. CRC bring people together to prevent pollution, improve habitat, and promote enjoyment of The Connecticut River and its tributary streams. Healthy rivers support healthy economies.

Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to New England, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.

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