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This South African adventure takes participants to join our field guide course in the Kruger National Park, the largest game reserve in South Africa. Here you can experience first-hand what it is really like to be a field guide in South Africa, amid the amazing diversity of landscapes and wildlife that the reserve is home to. The field guide course will allow you to go on spectacular bush walks and game drives, and attend lectures on mammals, birds, trees and more, presented by experienced game ...

From climbing to the summit of snow-capped peaks to trekking on a pristine glacier, and mastering how to use an ice axe to learning cooking techniques, the Patagonia Mountaineering course gives you have the opportunity to enjoy the real range of extremes that mountaineering life contains! For 40 days your home will be a remote ice cap in Chilean Patagonia, where you will learn the mountaineering skills you need to thrive in the backcountry, ultimately reaching a level that you would feel confide...

Asia is a majestic continent filled with awe-inspiring countries. Therefore, if you are thinking of volunteering in Asia, you may be finding it difficult to decide which country you want to visit; torn between wanting to relax on the white beaches of Thailand, meditate in India or trek through the Himalayas in Nepal. GVI has solved this dilemma by combining three of our most popular programmes to offer the ‘Asian Explorer’. This programme takes volunteers to join established educational projects...

GVI gives you the opportunity to complete a BTEC in the heart of the Ecuadorian rainforest. By joining GVI's Rainforest Expedition in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Expedition members will get a unique, first-hand experience of an extraordinary environment, whilst gaining a Level 3 BTEC Advanced Certificate (an A-Level equivalent qualification) on a five or ten week expedition. The BTEC teaches you to supervise biological surveys and upon its completion you should feel confident enough to plan and run ...

This multi focused expedition takes its volunteers to Kenya to combine marine, primate and forest research, and become involved in local community development projects, including teaching English as a foreign language and sustainable tourism programmes. Living and working in the beautiful Shimoni Archipelago, off the coast of the Indian Ocean on the border with Tanzania, expedition members can experience the amazing white sand beaches and biodiversity of the area. You will conduct humpback whale...

This conservation work project takes you to volunteer in the frontline of sustainable development in Madagascar for a multi award-winning charity. Laying in the Indian Ocean, Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island, and contains fascinating cultures, beautiful beaches and exceptional biodiversity, with 80% of its wildlife occurring nowhere else on earth. Yet sadly, much of the country's population lives in extreme poverty and these outstanding habitats are increasingly threatened by defo...

Southwest Cameroon harbours two of the most threatened African great apes: the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla (the rarest of the gorilla sub-species) and the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (the most endangered chimpanzee subspecies in Africa). By volunteering in Africa on this conservation adventure, you will help both species, which are key to the forest ecosystems of the border region of Nigeria and Cameroon. Volunteering on this conservation project in Cameroon will take you to work o...

Since it was founded in 1978, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (DFGFI) has been dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas and their habitats in Africa through research, conservation action, education and partnerships. The Bwindi gorillas of Uganda and the mountain gorillas now number only about 350 each and are among the more endangered species of the world. With the ecology of their natural environment always under threat, much work is needed to save these amazing great...

Since 1991, this project has been investigating the ecology and behaviour of two dolphin species in the clear waters around the island of Kalamos, Greece - one of the Mediterranean areas in which these marine mammals have been studied most intensively. This project takes you to be trained through lectures and working side-by-side with researchers, getting involved in field activities that include regular surveys of the study area. You will spot dolphins and other animals during the surveys a...

This is a collaboration programme between Global Vision International and EF Education First where volunteers spend 4 weeks teaching on GVI's indigenous community project in Otavalo after spending 2 weeks on an EF Spanish language course at EF’s Escuela Internacional de Espanol in Quito. Students will spend 3-5 hours a day on group discussions, language lab work, guest speakers, and special interest lessons to expand vocabulary during the 2 week EF language course. On the GVI project, volunt...