Earthwatch Institute

Earthwatch Institute provides volunteers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to scientific understanding of critical environmental issues. As research assistants, volunteers of every age and ability will help to discover and document places, species, and cultures in more than 150 locations worldwide. Expeditions focus on supporting global initiatives to preserve a healthy planet.
A Few of Our Favorite Earthwatch Trips
Amazon Riverboat Exploration Help conserve and protect Amazon dolphins, giant river otters, monkeys, and birds. From a vintage boat you will work with a team of skilled Peruvian biologists to collect wildlife information.

Lions of Tsavo Help protect Tsavo?s legendary lions and find ways for lions and local communities to live side by side. You?ll help collect data on seasonal changes in lion density, social structure, and survival in the Taita/Rukinga Wildlife Conservancy, considered by many to offer the finest wilderness experience available in Kenya.

Meerkats of the Kalahari Explore the causes and consequences of cooperative behavior in South Africa's most endearing mammal. You will help observe six habituated colonies, using techniques such as radiotracking and focal sampling.

Trinidad?s Leatherback Sea Turtles Help the local community group, Nature Seekers, save this endangered turtle. Each night, under swaying palms and bright tropical stars, your team will patrol sections of the beach with the staff and other volunteers. You may find as many as 150 sea turtles nesting each night in peak season.