Conservation In Bahia, Brazil
Location
Brazil: Trancoso
Description
This brand new programme promises to be absolutely amazing! We have different activities planned for each day of the week, each of them an important step toward the restoration of the Atlantic Rain Forest.
Mondays and Tuesdays are spent deep inside the rain forest, climbing on trees to collect seeds as well as cataloguing native species, both significant parts of conservation work. Wednesday is spent at a local seed nursery, where you will help plant some of the seeds you collected. On Thursday we move on to Monte Pascoal National Park, where the most important part of our conservation work takes place. There you will plant saplings into the ground, contributing to make this part of the rain forest just a little bit bigger! You will have the option of spending the night in the indigenous territory that borders the park or return to Trancoso for a weekend of fun. Then, the following Monday the work starts all over again.
Highlights
Volunteer in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest in a beautiful coastal town in Bahia. This programme is for people who truly want to volunteer and work hard to make a difference. But when the work is done for the day, there are many fun activities we are happy to organise for those volunteers who simply cannot take any more relaxing time on Trancoso's stunning white, sandy beaches. Some of these include:
- Mountain biking through the valley of buffalos
- Horseback ridingon the beach
- Kayaking through rivers that cut through mangroves and tropical forests
- Soccer with locals in the middle of the quadrado (town square)
- Diving in Arraial DAjuda
- Capoeira lessons
- Surfing, windsurfing, and kitesurfing lessons
- Forro dancing on Friday nights
- Tennis on a clay court in the jungle
- Excursions to Praia do Espelho, Curuipe, Caraiva and night time outings in the town of Arraial DAjuda