New dates for Papua New Guinea expedition!
Added to website: 09 May 2007
The Waria Valley Rainforest Conservation Project in Papua New Guinea will now begin in June 2007, with volunteers going out monthly for a mininimum of 4+ weeks!
The project, which has received funding from the Darwin Initiative, will work closely with the Waria Valley community focusing on developing alternative livelihood schemes for local people and their future generations. This area forms part of the world’s third largest block of unbroken tropical rainforest but is potentially threatened by the long-term environmental damage of large scale logging concessions. The forests are home to an estimated 10,000 people who are solely dependent on natural resources of these forests for food and other daily uses.
The project will provide environmental education and training programmes for local people, plus biodiversity assessments of forest resources. Ultimately this project’s primary objective is to help local people and nongovernmental entities to manage and conserve Papua New Guinea’s extensive forest reserves. While activities will continue year round with CCC staff on the ground volunteers will embark on expeditions from June 2007. The expedition base is located in small villages within the Waria Valley within the boundaries of the rainforest and volunteers will be accommodated in traditional village huts.
To view the 2007 and 2008 departure dates, please click here
