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Baby turtles can hatch at any time, day or night! Your role is to stay nearby (right next to a beautiful beach) and check on our hatchery every two hours to make sure any newly hatched turtles are safe and not trapped during the heat of the day.
Essentially, you’ll help keep an eye on our little hatchlings, making sure they’re doing well throughout the day and helping release them at sunrise or sunset, when conditions are safest for them.
14 hours of help per week
Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.
1 day off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Intermediate Spanish or Intermediate English
Over 18 years old
Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Our sea turtle conservation project is located on a beautiful pristine beach on the Osa peninsula. At night we relocate turtle nests from the beach into the safety of a hatchery, so that poachers don't get to the eggs first. The baby turtles will then eventually hatch and that's where we need your help.
You'll be the guardian to the baby turtles, and their safety relies on you, especially during the day. Your task is simple but essential; when the sun is up, every two hours, you'll go into the hatchery to check if any baby turtles have hatched. If so, you'll place them in bucket with water and sand and bring them to a cooler place until it is safe for them to be released. That is when the sun isn't so harsh anymore, aka during sunset.
That's it! We have an accommodation for you right by the beach, and of course right by the hatchery. So you can live out your tropical beach dreams surrounded by pristine nature and baby turtles. Keep in mind that the accommodation is rustic as there is no electricity (you'll be welcome to charge your electronics in nearby places and use the wifi there).
Six days a week you'll check on the baby turtles in the hatchery every 2 hours, typically from 7AM to 5:30PM.
There are other activities that you could join, especially if you want to learn more about sea turtles, but none are mandatory.
On your free day we will have other people check on the hatchery so you can use the time to check out places around you. We are close to Corcovado National Park and Caño Island Marine Reserve, we can help you organize a tour to join there or elsewhere for example. Or you can go on a hike to a nearby beach, river, estuary or waterfall.
Many worldpackers have been applying to this position recently. The host will probably not be able to respond to all of the applications, so we recommend that you also apply to other hosts in our community and not just this one :)
