Spend your days at the beach protecting turtles in Cambutal, Panama

Infos

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  Description

  Join us and help protecting sea turtles!
  
  Hello! I’m Max (french) and with my wife Liza (US american ) we settle in Panama to live a simple connected life. After years of backpacking and van life we landed in the quiet little village of Cambutal in the Azuero Peninsula. It’s an amazing place, wild, preserved from mass toursim, with miles of wild beaches and tropical rainforest all around! But there is a problem, poachers, dogs and coyote destroy marine turtle nests on a daily basis so we decided to take action! During our first turtle season we started collecting nests at night and relocating them in a protected sanctuary. We collected 148 nests in total and released close to 8000 baby turtles! This year we want to do more (our goal is to protect 350-400 nests!) and we need a hand!

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Bénévolat

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Vie en van

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Politique/justice sociale

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Bénévolat

  

  Animaux de compagnie

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Jardinage

  

  Auto-stop

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Animaux

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Voile / bateau

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Nature

  

  Randonnée

  

  Camping

  

  Sports d'aventure

  

  Plage
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  One thing I miss since I stopped being nomad is meeting so many different and interesting people. Welcoming workawayers is a way for us to keep on traveling through your travel stories. While staying with us you will enjoy an amazing and wild place. We have few neighbors but they are all super nice and very eclectic! I am a kayak fishing guide so if you want to learn about fishing I’m always happy to share my passion. At the moment my wife is back to work in the US so you will miss out on her amazing food and seamstress skills but you’ll be back soon I’m sure!
  I like cooking good food especially when the meals are shared so you will boost my cooking efforts for sure but I also expect from you that you cook you special dishes, can’t wait to try them!

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  Aide

  We need your help. The more time we spend on the beach at night the less nests are getting poached so your main mission will be to patrol on the beach at night and early morning to find the mama turtles and protect their eggs. Ideally we would like to host two people at a time so we can walk at night together for safety and fun purposes.
  We understand walking on a remote beach at night can seem dangerous or scary but the local community here is very peaceful. There are no violent crimes (virtually no crimes at all) and everybody knows everybody as the village has less than 1000 inhabitants. We even know the poachers and have good relationship with them. They know what we do and why and we understand why they poach (it’s not for fun but to sustain their families) even though we don’t like it. We are trying to work with them to generate new revenues for them to reduce their need for poaching.
  We have a vhf radio to be able to communicate at any time for emergency.
  One last thing, we always walk the beach with my dog and she is very protective and will bark loudly to strangers in the night.
  
  We also started an IG page and GoFundMe to help us with this mission. Any social media skills is more than welcome to help boost the protection!
  The other thing we need your help for is releasing baby turtles on a regular basis at night fall. There might be some work around the sanctuary also, repairing it, protecting it better, all good ideas, vibes and helps is welcome!

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Espagnol: Intermédiaire

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
  Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
  
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  Hébergement

  We live in a little two bedroom house on the beach. One room is for you with a single bed and a twin bed with mosquito nets and we share a bath room. We are off the grid so electricity is limited. We have starlink on as much as our batteries can handle, usually 3 to 6 hours per day and can charge your devices. Running water is gravity fed from a creek and we filter our drinking water. No hot water in the shower! We live about 6 kilometers away from the village with several creek/river crossing so we will go in “town” once or twice a week but you can hitch a ride with the neighbors at any time!
  Like I said earlier I like cooking and sharing meals all together but I expect you to give a hand, either cook or doing the dishes!

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  Autres infos...

  The area is adventure packed, waterfalls, crazy trees, monkeys passing over the house, nice hikes etc
  Reaching Cambutal with public buses is pretty easy (not a short ride though) and I will explain all of it to you. I can also book a taxi for you if you’d rather. Once in Cambutal I will come and pick you up, we will do a little grocery mission so you have you fav foods and then head for the jungle!
  I forgot to mention our animals! We have two dogs that will walk the beach with us and help us find the nests and we also have a cat for some cuddles in the hamac!

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  We have a small solar system so internet is only on during the day. We might also need to limit internet connection on cloudy days but you will have internet 2 hours a day minimum. Typically we turn the WiFi on around 9AM and stop it around 6PM on sunny days.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  You need 4x4 to access our place. You are more than welcome to park in the garden or on the beach and use WiFi running water, shower, kitchen etc

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Dogs need to be cat friendly for their own safety!

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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