Oceans 2 Earth volunteers (O2E) is a non-profit organisation which works with wildlife habitat conservation and animal welfare programsand is offering volunteer programs mainly in Australia and also other regions of the world.The company executives highlighted the details while conversing with the press in the city.
“We at O2E are collaborating with organisations all over the world such that environment and animal lovers can experience, travel and contribute at a valuable grassroots level. We are an Australian organisation, and hence, our specialty is volunteering Australia projects and also projects located in Africa and Asia. Projects provide volunteers a range of activities to care for the environment and animals with programs like marine conservation, education programs, animal rehab, research, veterinary assistance and wildlife care. Your contribution is contingent on needs of the project, the country and type, and length of stay. Experience a holiday of 1 week or stay for 6 months; O2E will arrange all the details,” said an executive.
Animals which are helped by the volunteer programs include Koalas, Elephants, Macaques, Langurs, owls, kangaroos, gibbons, jackals, monkeys, dogs, dolphins, possums, cats, dingoes, wallabies, turtles, wombats, pigs, snakes, sun bears, horses, Asiatic black bears, civets, flying foxes, fishing cats, bandicoots, eagles, otters, birds, lions, bats, crocodiles and wallaroos.
“O2E Foundation is a non-profit organisation which was founded in Melbourne, Australia for providing financial assistance and resources for conservation and animal welfare projects both in local scale as well as globally. The O2E founders were well aware of the fact that commonly volunteer recruitment agencies for conservation and animal welfare projects were not having the best interests of the environment and animals in mind. Instead, they followed harmful and unethical practices like unsustainable projects of a tree nursery, elephant rides for tourism, and also, consumption of scarce local resources by volunteers. This put to risk environment of animals and local wildlife communities. Hence, Oceans 2 Earth created its Ethical Standards and Wildlife Code using which it evaluates all potential projects before collaborating with them,” said an executive.
The objective of the O2E foundation is to connect nature and animal lovers from all over the globe using a network of sustainable, conscientious and ethical non-profit organisations in the developed and developing the world. Candidates can enjoy these unique travel experiences while making a positive contribution to conservation and animal welfare projects.
“We have experienced that an individual can make a lot of difference by our personal experience of caring for and volunteering for Australian wildlife, fundraising for animal habitat protection and mitigation of human-elephant conflict. The contribution of one individual may be small but adding up the combined action of several volunteers as a whole, the results add up to quite a significant impact,” said an executive.
To Know more visit http://www.oceans2earth.org/volunteer/