Northern KZN Camp for Turtle Monitoring

Turtle monitoring is not always the ideal volunteer job in paradise as most marine volunteers may think. Turtle monitoring is an exhausting task which requires many hours of dedicated work by our marine volunteers, mostly in an isolated area or remote coastal location. Monitoring turtle nest sites is mainly a night time activity when turtles are most active, which means marine volunteers have to be prepared to make do with a lot less sleep! Counting hatchlings, collecting biometric data and marking nest sites can however be an extremely rewarding experience, especially considering the conservation benefit to both loggerhead and leatherback turtles which are both found in the area.  Marine volunteers stay inside the coastal reserve near the southern border of Mozambique.  Days are spent around camp entering data onto computers, doing camp chores or just enjoying the tropical summer weather and the surrounding African bush veld.  A huge bonus is that the marine volunteer camp is ideally located right on the beach!  Volunteers can swim in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean right at their door step and enjoy the cool evening breeze in the late afternoon…