Since Puerto Ayora is a magnet for English-speaking tourists, there are a variety of tour operators looking for people who have language capacities (Spanish-English) and can work for cheap. Many travelers have found work in exchange for courses, dives, or...
At Hacienda Tranquilo, volunteers work in a controlled plot of land to eliminate introduced/invasive plant species and to restore native and endemic species, growing the plants first in a greenhouse, and then transplanting them to their permanent locations.
Volunteers also assist in community...
The Jatun Sacha Foundation—which in Quechua means “Great Wilderness”—is an environmental conservation organization with eight biological stations in Ecuador, spread between the coast, the Andes, the jungle and the Galápagos. “The San Cristóbal-Galápagos Biological...