Field volunteer program

                                                 Information documents  and application form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 


Goal

The goal of our field volunteer program is to contribute to sustainable development in the area of the Inner Ionian island archipelago in Greece , and is part of the kalamos and Kastos sustainable development program.An important goal of this, is to help educate and inspire people from around the world with respect to sustainability and nature conservation. It is based in the Kalamos Island biological field station. Volunteers work on a pre-agreed plan with us based on the structure of our program.

 

How it works

There are two ways you can participate in our work. The first is by participating in one of our pre-arranged activities for the field season. The second is to organize an activity for each volunteer individually in one of our thematic areas of work . We work out a pre-agreed plan on an individual volunteer basis which can include a mixture of activities both pre-arranged and an individual basis one in one of our thematic areas . 

Our thematic areas are as follows:

• Sustainable agriculture and agroforestry

• Forest ecosystem Protection and Restoration

• Restoration of agricultural diversity

• Restoration of marine ecosystems

• Sustainable fisheries management

• Anthropogenic impacts on marine and terrestrial ecosystems

• Anthropogenic pollution measurement and reduction 

• Wildlife monitoring and management

• Ecosystem monitoring

• Land use rights

• Marine tenure

• The economics of sustainable development

• Rights of use of natural resources

• Biocontrol of introduced species

• Social justice and related issues in natural resource management and sustainable development

• Applied animal and plant biological conservation

• Modeling of biological populations

• Marine ecology 

• Plant ecology


We currently have four pre- arranged activities. These are:


1.Building the Kalamos Island Eco-community and experimental organic fruit and vegetable farm

2.Feral cat monitoring program for Kalamos ,Kastos and their satellite islands

3.Marine ecosystems monitoring program

4.Ornithological habitat Surveys


More details on this  for both our thematic areas, the pre-arranged activities and the structure of our Volunteer program, including our terms and conditions can be found in the rellevant information documents that you can download at the end of this page


Volunteer selection process


Staff

At present the volunteer coordinator is Ted Karfakis , a native of Kalamos Island and an ecologist with many years of experience working in related projects and that has worked in volunteer orientation and training in related projects in several parts of the world.Τhe biological field station which is the basis of the program is staffed by other members of Terra Sylvestris and sellected volunteers which also are there to help with the logistics and non administrative issues of the program.We also have a network of consultants that periodically contribute for a variety of issues in the projects that we do both on our own and with the assistance of volunteers.


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