- Mexico
- Oaxaca
About Program
11 days for experience Mexican life as a local travelling along Oaxaca coast! (Calls for volunteers every month)
The mission of the project is to support and strengthen the conservation work of three community groups by supporting their activities, such as patrolling the beach, collecting nests to protect them from poachers, monitoring wildlife, feeding a small population of deers... And to wait for one of the most impressive phenomenon of the world: the Arribada, a mass nesting phenomenon of olive ridley sea turtle.
The main activities of the projects will be:
Patroling beaches during the night protecting sea turtles and their eggs.
Environmental education with children
Tree planting
Maintentance of white-tailed deer
Baby crocodiles facilities cleaning during their first year of life
Some ecotourism activities that fund conservation
Accompaniment in rural entrepreneurship projects such as traditional bread making in a wood-fired oven
Video and Photos
Program Highlights
- It is possible to experience one of the most amazing spectacles worldwide: thousands of sea turtles nesting at the same time along the beach in a phenomenom called arribada.
- You will participate in several conservation actions led by local people: protecting sea turtles, crocodiles, deers, planting trees in the jungle, doing beach cleaning, ...
- You will live as a local in three different indigenous communities in the coast of Oaxaca during 11 days.
- Your actions will impact to empower local people to conservate nature and its resources, making them aware of its value and threats through environmental education workshops.
Program Impact
During eleven days, you will visit different places, working with different people to protect different animals and natural habitats. We made this program to be able to involve you making an impact to local projects that share our values of protecting nature and wildlife, at the same time that you experience Mexico as they live it. You will live the authentic Mexico as if you were a local.
Every day will be different
Depending on the season, you can learn, support and experience:
- Arribada, when thousands of sea turtles are nesting massively (few days per month from July to March)
- Newborn sea turtles in natural habitat. After 45 days of an arribada, millions of sea turtles born in order to start their lifes in the Pacific Ocean (few days per month from July to April)
- Leatherback sea turtle nesting, the biggest turtle in the world (from December to February)
- Whales (From December to February)
- Crocodiles hatching (June)
- Deer hatching (June, July)
- Bird breeding, signing like crazy (April, May)
- A green, full of butterflies, Mexico (from June to December)
- A 100% sunny Mexico (from November to May)
