IG23-ESC13 ESC 4 TURTLES, ENVIRONMENT and LEGALITY Solidarités Jeunesses

PARTENAIRE

WWF Crotone runs the CELA Center for Environmental Education and Legality in San Leonardo di Cutro, a small town on the Calabrian coast. The area is famous for its beaches where turtles lay their eggs and for the presence of other areas of important naturalistic interest. The center works in collaboration with local authorities and nonprofit organizations to manage the Caporizzuto marine protected area, maintain a Turtle Hospital, and monitor and clean local beaches.

Localisation

CROTONE

gare la plus proche

Crotone

aéroport le plus proche

SUF

Itinéraire vers le point de RDV

To be fixed

Informations supplémentaires

Volunteers must be able to swim and be ready to work even in hot weather.or/in early morning and night. Volunteers with their own camping tents for overnight stays on the beach are welcome. If they do not have their own tent, it will be provided by the organisation.

Remarques

Ability to swimm is compulsory. Volunteers can be required to wake up early in morning or stay at the beach in the night for turtles nests monitoring purposes. Erasmus Programme Countries only

Travail

The volunteers, under the coordination of WWF staff and marine protected area technicians, will support: - monitoring and protecting turtle nests (ATTENTION. This activity may require waking up early in the morning or sleeping on the beach at night to monitor turtle nests or in the event that eggs hatch and therefore new-born turtles need to be protected.); - assistance to injured turtles or injured birds; - cleaning beaches; - monitoring of protected areas; - support for the creation of paths in natural areas, with the relevant illustrative signage. A study part is planned to introduce the theme of the social use of property confiscated from the bosses of local criminal organisations.

Logement & nourriture

The accommodation will be provided inside the CELA itself in shared rooms.Volunteers will cook by themselves and with leaders, with food provided by the organization.

Emplacement & temps libre

The area is one of the best costal areas of Italy, place of the second largest European Marine protected areas, surrounded by several European areas of environmental interests. The inland mountains are home to some river areas with waterfalls and picturesque lakes. Volunteers will have the opportunity to visit all the areas. Study and information activities will be carried out on migration issues (Cutro was the site of a shipwreck in which dozens of migrants lost their lives) and on legality issues (CELA is housed in a property confiscated from a criminal associate and now used for social purposes).