Volunteers Role
Volunteers will work with the staff in the projects to help them in any ongoing project that they have at the moment. It will
in most cases be physical work and even long hikes to get to where they will work so it can be quit demanding under a burning sun.
Volunteers might for example work with collecting seeds and small plants that will be taken to a tree nursery go grow strong
before being planted in different locations throughout the project. This of course includes taking care of the tree nursery
that constantly needs care with water and maybe protection against the sun to survive.
In some projects it is important to constantly work with removal of introduced species that easily takes over the land and'
suffocates the native plants. In the Galapagos Islands especially this is an ongoing project and it is hard to eradicate these
introduced species as birds eat the fruits in other locations and bring the seeds all around the Islands through their poo.
In the Galapagos Islands volunteers might also help with other things like looking after the Giant tortoises that lives within
the project. This includes some feeding and cleaning but they live in a quite natural habitat so it is not to much that needs
to be done most of the days. Other things that volunteers might take part of is eco-tourism and agriculture that is something
the projects might have to be able to be self-going.
