Global Volunteer Network

The Global Volunteer Network offers volunteer opportunities in community projects world-wide.

The New Zealand program is located in Wellington, one of the most picturesque cities in the world. You will join a small team of volunteers working to preserve, monitor, and re-establish our natural environment in the Wellington region and beyond.

Prepare yourself to encounter the challenges of 'hands on' conservation and environmental restoration work in our native forests, wildlife reserves, rugged coastlines, and offshore islands. The work that you will be involved with is typically a combination of direct habitat restoration (e.g. predator control, tree planting, invasive weed removal) and environmental/conservation research such as bird monitoring, marine mammal monitoring and ecological projects.

The aim of New Zealand program is twofold; first to provide much needed volunteer assistance to conservation groups and conservation projects within New Zealand. In return, volunteers receive a unique and diverse experience that will expose them to many aspects of NZ conservation; this in turn will hopefully give our volunteers a greater understanding of conservation as a whole.