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Conservation volunteers: Conservation volunteers: can anyone make a difference?can anyone make a difference?Diogo Veríssimo*, David Jones & Rebeca Chaverri
Playa Norte Marine Turtle Monitoring and Conservation Programme
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Introduction
• Field research constraints: • High costs / Low budgets• Qualified / Large workforce
• The role of volunteers in conservation• On Playa Norte paying volunteers sustain more than 90% of project running costs –Equipment, staff wages, food, lodging
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Volunteer profile• Around 220 volunteers, since 2006• 70% of volunteers are female
• Age range 18 to 55 years; 73% up to 25 years• 20 nationalities; 90% from EU, USA and Canada• Two thirds have no natural sciences background
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Nest poaching
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Human pressures around Playa Norte
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Paying volunteers can provide Paying volunteers can provide critical human and financial critical human and financial resources for biodiversity resources for biodiversity conservation in developing conservation in developing
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