Projet environnemental protection de la nature dans un refuge pour ours (CES/SVE)

Name: Projet environnemental protection de la nature dans un refuge pour ours (CES/SVE)
Start: 2019-12-01
End: 2020-05-28
Location: Kuterevo, Croatia

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Croatia European Voluntary Service European Voluntary Service Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Velebit Association Kuterevo (VUK) is an organization in Velebit mountain, Croatia. International volunteers have been coming in Kuterevo village since 1978, and organization is running a Bear Refuge since 2002. The main issues VUK is dealing with are animal welfare, nature conservation and preserving cultural heritage.

More information: https://mountainspiritvolunteers.wordpress.com/

💼 What the programme involves

- Maintaining facilities in Bear Refuge

- Support Volunteers' Station and its work

- Taking care of animals (bears, chicken, geese, ponies and all other animals)

- Guiding visitors and introducing topic of environment and nature conservation to them

- Support creation of publication for celebration of 40 years of Kuterevo Spirit

- Working with local community.

Volunteers will have opportunity to learn about bears and nature, and will be encouraged to participate in seminars or trainings that will be happening during their volunteering.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteers will be accommodated in houses of local people, in rooms they will share with another volunteer. Their accommodation will be few minutes walk from the Volunteers' Station, where they will be spending most of their day working and having leisure with other volunteers. Travel will be organized by the volunteer, with help from sending and hosting organization for local transportation. Accommodation, food, pocket money and travel costs will be covered by the project.