Volunteer: Climate Action & Agroforestry Amazon

Job Details

• Location:
  
  Tena, Ecuador
• Duration: minimum 4 weeks
• Start Dates: each month (enquire when applying)
• Cost: $500 for the first week + $350 for each additional week
• Fee Includes: all food, accommodation, pre‑departure and in‑country support, orientation, and all project related activities
• Does not Include: flights, airport pickup, travel insurance, personal spending, visas and vaccinations

• Learn about national and local efforts to mitigate climate change and support ongoing projects to diversify local farms
• Implement environmental education programs and help make the region more resilient to climate change
• Learn about Amazonian cultures and their connections to ethnobotany, agroforestry and plant medicine
• Accompany locals into agroforestry farms (chakras) and plant, weed, harvest
• Support communities with eco‑tourism projects
• Hike into protected forests and participate in reforestation projects
• Receive research and dissertation support from partner organisations and universities (if requested)

• Work with farmers, foresters, park rangers, and environmental engineers experienced in forest conservation, agroforestry, agronomy, participatory community development, social entrepreneurship and sustainable farming

This experience offers interns a unique chance to learn how ancestral knowledge and climate change mitigation can combine to conserve the rainforest, preserve cultures, generate income for local communities and combat climate change.

• field research
• sustainable development
• climate change
• international development agriculture
• forest conservation
• community tourism
• cacao industry
• seed banks
• indigenous rights
• economic development
• indigenous traditions