Volunteer for monitoring and research or raising awareness of conservation issues.
Formerly the Atlantic Whale Foundation, the AWDF is a UK Registered Charity (Number 1167109). It was founded to continue the work of Spanish environmental agency, Proyecto Ambiental Tenerife, twenty five years ago and runs the volunteer programme on the island’s whale watching boats, one of the largest whale watching centres in the world.
There are two key volunteer tasks on the whale watching boats:
Monitoring and researching resident Pilot Whales and Bottlenose Dolphins, and Migratory species. The charity’s databases span thirty continuous years and contain over 13,000 observations making them amongst the most complete sources of information on cetaceans in the world. Volunteers have used the data for thousands of dissertations from ‘A’ level to PhD.
Raising awareness of conservation issues with the one million European tourists who see nature at its very best when enjoying their whale watching experience. The AWDF’s conservation programme is aimed at raising awareness of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on the marine environment.
Charitable Travel will help you plan and book your next holiday to Tenerife, and can tailor your trip to allow time for you to get involved in this project, which you will need to arrange directly via the link below.
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