I joined ConservationVIP’s volunteer trip to Costa Rica last September, and I want to share my video blog with you. I’m not known for creative writing. Instead, my creative skills lay in photography, and combining photos and music into videos to tell a story. Along the Way is a round-trip visual tour from the trip’s…
Thanks to very generous donors to our Scholarship Program, ConservationVIP® was able to offer a scholarship to Daniel Humphrey so he could participate in our June 2023 Alaska Volunteer Trip. Here he reflects on his experience: “Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars – and goes yet beyond that – beyond all…
About Galapagos The Galapagos Islands are a rare and distinctive collection of volcanic islands located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. It is influenced by a combination of hot equatorial sun and cool ocean waters from the convergence of the Cromwell and Humboldt currents. These unique features have nurtured a…
Costa Rica Guide Marco Fallas What makes ConservationVIP’s volunteer trip in Costa Rica not only fascinating and memorable but also joyful? Our local guide, Marco Fallas! About Marco Growing up in the heart of Costa Rica, Marco developed an early passion for the natural world. He has devoted his life to sharing his love of…
North to Alaska This past summer I headed north to Alaska to spend nearly 2 weeks on a ConservationVIP volunteer trip. I was left in awe. Seriously, I will make a feeble attempt to put into words what seems like such a mystery to me. How do such good things happen to someone as ordinary…
We are excited to be officially counting down the days to our first ConservationVIP® trip to Cinque Terre, Italy, in October 2022! We thought you might enjoy a refresh on how our Cinque Terre conservation volunteer trip came to fruition from ConservationVIP® Program Manager, Carol Clark. Consisting of medieval villages overlooking the Mediterranean Sea between…