If you are interested in protecting the tropical rainforests, the adventure, and you want to know about simple life in Ecuador, this program is made for you.

The Jatun Sacha Foundation offers volunteer opportunities in seven biological stations and reserves around Ecuador to offer volunteers field experience in a variety of areas: reforestation, environmental education, community service and development, plant conservation, agroforestry, organic agriculture, sustainable aquaculture, field data collection, and scientific research.

This program will not only let you travel to a new country, visit wonderful places and live with people from different cultures, but it will also develop new skills, gain field experience and participate in activities aimed to preserve the forests and improve the quality of life of families living near or in the forested areas where our reserves are situated.

The Jatun Sacha foundation has established a private network of natural reserves in which various programs and research projects have been developed to investigate flora, fauna, ecology, inventory of populations, carbon extraction, general conservation biology, community agroforestry programs, reforestation projects, ecosystem conservation, carbon fixation, health and nutrition. Production projects have also been developed such as: handicrafts, coffee, cocoa and sustainable agricultural alternatives. In the Jatun Sacha reserves, biological stations have been established with infrastructure and lodging facilities for researchers, professors, students, volunteers, and the general public interested in the conservation of biological diversity. In addition, the reserves facilitate research projects, undergraduate and graduate theses, as well as courses on tropical ecology, conservation biology, botany, zoology, dendrology, and the sustainable management of natural resources.