AWF Volunteer Projects

AWF Educational Courses

The hub of the AWF's global network of projects, is it's whale and dolphin programme in Tenerife. Volunteers spend three days each week as research guides and two days on their own individual projects.

The AWF has developed a broad range of low cost educational programmes, each combining relevant knowledge, solid experience and opportunity for personal learning and growth.

AWF Core Programmes

The AWF has formed a collaboration with the Millennium Elephant Foundation in Sri Lanka where we will be developing conservation, education and research initiatives throughout Asia.

We have a mother. We have sisters. We have aunts. We have cousins. We have grandmothers. They are all women who we love and care for. A Place for Women is an AWF programme creating centres for women to help them to achieve their dreams.

The AWF programme in Sierra Leone is now well established with a full range of programmes being run from York Village with plans to establish bases in Mende Town and Kabala in the autumn.

Passport to the Planet is a programme originally devised by the AWF with the needs of both volunteers and volunteer organisations in mind.

We have two project bases in Vietnam, in Hanoi and the other situated in a Muong village in Hai Phong. We have a full range of projects from enterprise creation to social anthropology, from conservation to education.

Our volunteers are bringing together products from across our project bases on four continents and, by buying any of these, we can all support local communities - and nature- globally.

Be part of our Caribbean research team, investigating sharks, turtles and coral reef. We believe that research is the first step in the right direction towards worldwide conservation.

The REACTEAM is a fully equipped research unit that responds rapidly to information on threatened marine species globally. It consists of young scientists working in collaboration with senior academics, local scientists and communities.

Right-click and "save target as" on the above images to download a PDF containing information about the wolves in Poland.

Our microfinancing efforts are helping build communitites by investing in entrepreneurs and givng them the advice they need to make their lives sustainable. We also have our own fair trade brand "True Fair" which ensures that farmers are given the best possible price for their products. Business students needed.

In addition to the AWF's association with the spiritual activites at the East West Sanctuary, Budapest, we have developed a collaboration with a large somewhat abandoned farm complex to the east of the country near the ancient city/ one time capital of Hungary, Debrecen.

It's widely known, that indigenous communities are thrown out of their rightful land to make space for agriculture, oil drilling and mining. However, the biggest threat they are facing now is from conservation efforts!

The AWF is developing a collaboration with the Turtle Foundation in Cape Verde. Through this collaboration we aim to develop turtle projects at our project bases around the world, utilising the Turtle Foundation's experience and expertise.

HeART is an AWF programme building cultural art centres in deprived communities, spaces where education and cultural understanding meet through the medium of art, bringing children and community together and inspiring them to dream. HeART 1 in Sierra Leone.

Orangutans once lived throughout Southeast Asia, today can only be found in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. They are critically endangered with less than ten years before extinction in the wild.

AWF Creative Productions brings some of the world’s brightest young creative thinkers into touch with  people fighting to save our planet - our peoples, nature and precious environment. 

The AWF is designing eco lodges for a number of the communities it works with. These designs incorporate locally sourced materials and traditional designs with the latest in alternative technologies such as solar power.

The AWF's "Plant a Tree, Fund a Dream" programme is planting trees on project sites across the globe. £1000 plants 100,000 tree's and pays for 100 childrens' education for a whole year.