“Working alongside BioSur Foundation’s expert field guides, volunteers will help with tasks such as placement and monitoring of cameras, insect sampling, maintaining trails as well as cleaning beaches, rivers and mangroves”
Participants are required to be
- 21 years of age
- fluent in English or Spanish
- physically able to make long treks, cross rivers, and work in difficult terrain
- willing to work as part of a team
- able to show proof of travel insurance
- willing to commit for at least 2 weeks
- passionate about wildlife, rainforests, insects, and all things natural
Food, lodging, and transportation are not included.
The International Volunteer Program is aimed towards the international community who wish to collaborate with the BioSur Foundation on issues related to conservation and environmental education, in addition to knowing more about Costa Rica’s biodiversity as well as practicing the Spanish language.
The purpose of the IVP is to meet the needs that arise around the environment, whether in local communities, schools or colleges, through the delivery of workshops that will facilitate addressing issues related to conservation, pollution, deforestation, among others.
Our volunteers will also gain field work experience in the Río Nuevo Private Reserve or surrounding places, performing projects such as placement and monitoring of camera traps, insect sampling, cleaning beaches, rivers and mangroves, among others. As well as, visit, meet or work in the Insectopia Collection in assembly of specimens, labeling and curatorship of the collection.
The Scientific Volunteer Program is a program aimed at the local and international scientific community with the purpose of working on the sampling of species and in the laboratories of the BioSur Foundation to generate scientific knowledge about the biodiversity of the Osa Peninsula and the Golfo Dulce region.
This program will allow the development of graduate work or will enhance the creation of recognized scientific articles that will be uploaded to the BioSur Foundation’s reference databases.