Via the Working Abroad website:

Join the St. Eustatius National Parks Foundation and help to conserve their two parks – the Marine Park and the Quill National Park. Acquire new skills and knowledge about conservation, local flora and fauna of Statia and take part in trail work and tropical gardening.

Opportunities for Volunteers

• Trail building in the Quill and Boven National Parks (all year round)
• Maintaining the Botanical Garden (all year round)
• Helping with night turtle patrols (monitoring and tagging) during nesting season only (March to November)
• Outside of turtle season, may assist with in-water turtle surveys.
• Species monitoring
• Environmental Education

See the complete Working Abroad posting for more details about this opportunity. You can also take a look at the St. Eustatius National Parks website for additional information about volunteering with the Parks project.

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