📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Thy National Park is remarkable because of the open landscape of dunes that stretch from the shores of the North Sea through vast heathlands into the plantations to the East.
Core ideas of a Danish national park are both to preserve nature and involve people in order for them to better understand and care for nature. The ‘Hands On Nature’ camp this year seeks international young volunteers to work in nature while learning about nature preservation on heaths and in coastal areas.
💼 What the programme involves
The camp consists of different minor projects, all involving manual work. For example removing invasive species of trees to preserve the open dune heath, or moving hay to protect rare plants. Only manual tools will be used and local professionals instruct the work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay in an outdoor camp situated in the country site in connection with a modern farm guesthouse with toilet, bath and kitchen facilities.
You will sleep in tents with camp beds. Males and females will not sleep separately. Please bring your own warm sleeping bag. Temperature in Denmark can be down to 10 celcius degrees during the nights.
Cooking will be done both in the farmhouse kitchen and on the outdoor fireplace. Everyone is expected to take part in cooking, cleaning and other camp activities, like chopping wood and lighting the fire.
No primitive camp experience is required.
📍 About the location
Denmark is relative densely populated, but Thy National Park is a rare area of Danish wilderness. Throughout time people have lived with and struggled against nature, which has left historical landmarks as 3000 years old grave mounds, 1000 year old churches and wartime fortifications from World War II.
Fishermen still fish from small boats direct from the beach in the minor villages along the coast. But you also find cafés, surf schools and a sea pool. Tourists bring the villages alive in the summertime, but you still find you a lot of quit places at the beach or in the wild. There are all kinds of weather here, from perfect sunny and quit days to days with heavy winds and rain.
Outdoor activities involving water or tree climbing will be arranged during the stay. Local volunteers will show and tell about nature and the history of the area.
⚠️ Requirements
You must know how to bicycle, since most daily transportation will be done by mountain bike - both to work areas and if you want to go somewhere in your spare time.
Physical condition for manual work is required.
ℹ️ Additional information
English will be the only language spoken.
Most transportation will be done by mountain bike, both to work areas and if you want to go somewhere in your spare time for example swimming in the North Sea or to do private shopping (5 km.)
You do not need to have any experience with manual nature preservation, but bring clothes and shoes to work outdoor.