Locally

Within your local community, you can restore habitats or wetlands as a volunteer. Examples include:

- tree planting
- helping to plant a native woodland in your community
- cleaning up a local river/wetland
- cleaning up a local park
- cleaning up a local beach
- working to improve local habitats for wildlife

To find out more about local volunteering efforts, contact your local nature reserve, council, parish etc.

Internationally

Africa & the Middle East

African Impact - Zimbabwe - Working with volunteers and ecologists to continue data capture, working in conjunction with the WWF to secure land in other African regions for the release programme and protected areas to release lions back into the wild. www.africanimpact.com

Azafady - Madagascar - Alleviate poverty to relieve stress on forests. Provide clean drinking water to isolated communities. Improve health and sanitation. Expand sustainable livelihoods projects. Expansion of present projects, implementation and extension of future projects. www.madagascar.co.uk

RIPPLE Africa -Malawi is a poor country and 80% of the people live in rural areas. Wood is a necessary part of everyday life. The present way of life is not sustainable. Wood has always been treated as a free resource and vast areas of woodland have been cleared carelessly without any replanting for future generations. This deforestation also leads to soil erosion, land degradation and climate change. RIPPLE Africa is fighting these problems. www.rippleafrica.org

Tsau! White Lion Reintroduction Programme - “World First” Reintroduction of White Lions back into the wild in their endemic region in South Africa - http://www.workingabroad.com/page/172/tsau-white-lion-project.htm

Asia & the Pacific

Australian Tropical Research Institute (Austrop) - Regeneration of previously infested patches of rainforest and lowland forest on sand in Australia. www.austrop.org.au

Isha Foundation - They are working for a greener India and operate in the state of Tamil Nadu. Current green cover of Tamil Nadu is 17%, one of the lowest in India that is far beyond the ideal aim of 33% that has been consequently set as the national goal by the forest department www.projectgreenhands.org

Pedder 2000 - The campaign to restore Lake Pedder in the heart of the Tasmanian wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia. www.lakepedder.org

Trees for Life - Trees for Life is a non-profit community group dedicated to revegetation and the protection of threatened and valuable bushland in South Australia. www.treesforlife.org.au

Latin America & the Caribbean

ARCAS, Guatemala - ARCAS is working with the Guatemalan government’s National Council of Protected Areas to establish a 3500 hectare protected area centered on the mangrove lakes and wetlands of the area. www.arcasguatemala.com

Las Cañadas, Mexico - Las Cañadas is a 756 acre land trust, home to one of the few remaining cloud forests in the central zone of Veracruz, Mexico. www.bosquedeniebla.com.mx http://www.bosquedeniebla.com.mx

Cloudforest Conservation Programme, Ecuador - conservation and reforestation of the cloudforest in Ecuador. An average of 200.000 hectares of the Ecuadorian forest disappear every year. Volunteers can replant native species in the cloudforest - http://www.workingabroad.com/page/140/cloud-forest-ecuador.htm

North America

Mangrove Action Project - They partner with mangrove forest communities, grassroots NGOs, researchers and local governments to conserve and restore mangrove forests and related coastal ecosystems, while promoting community-based, sustainable management of coastal resources. www.earthisland.org/map

Santa Catalina Island Conservancy - The mission of the Catalina Island Conservancy is to be a responsible steward of its restoration, conservation, education and recreation. www.catalinaconservancy.org

Europe & the CIS

Centro Italiano per la Riqualificazione Fluviale (CIRF), Italian Centre for River Restoration - CIRF is a non profit technical-scientific association that works with river restoration. www.cirf.org

Trees for Life - Scottish charity restoring the Caledonian Forest. www.treesforlife.org.uk

Green Light Trust - they work with both urban and rural communities to find land, design, plant, manage and own their woodland projects. www.greenlightrust.org

Moor Trees - To plant and allow woodland to regenerate naturally. www.moortrees.org

River Restoration Centre -The River Restoration Centre provides a focal point for the exchange of information and expertise relating to river restoration and enhancement in the UK. www.therrc.co.uk

Treesponsibility - Restoration of the woodland resources, sustainable livelihoods from keeping the woods alive. www.treesponsibility.com

The Whitley Fund for Nature - is a UK registered charity offering a wide range of awards to outstanding nature conservation leaders around the world. www.whitleyaward.org

If you are based in the UK, please find here your local British Trust for Conservation (BTCV) office and their volunteering opportunities- www.btcv.org.uk

Worldwide

www.workingabroad.com  - restoration and conservation volunteer opportunities worldwide, in the national parks of Nevada (USA), Iceland and St. Eustatius (Caribbean). Restoration of the cloudforest in Ecuador and an indigenous community in Costa Rica. Also they run a database of volunteer opportunities all throughout the world listing over 3000 NGOs that you can volunteer with.