“Center Zapovedniks”

The International Volunteer Center has existed as one of the main programs of the Environmental Education Center Zapovedniks (Reserves), or ECZ, since 2002.

From 2003 to 2006, we collaborated in the international volunteer field in partnerships with SFERA (ex-NNVS). Since 2008 we have been an official partner of Service Civil International (SCI www.sciint.org)

Our main aim is to promote ideas of peace, humanism and respect for nature among young people in Russia and all over the world through international volunteer activity.

We help Russian volunteers to participate in International projects all over the world, and host international volunteers in our ENVI-work camps in National Parks and Nature Reserves. We closely co-operate with all 141 Russian Federal Protected Areas to find interesting and fruitful work for volunteers to participate in for the protection of Russian nature.

Since 2002, over 600 Russian volunteers have taken part in work camps abroad.

In our camps we combine these important principles:
- help protected areas
- educate participants about the environment
- open Russian culture and traditions to volunteers
- intercultural and international exchanges.

What do the volunteers do? Help to develop ecological trails, work with visitors, conduct scientific research and monitoring, clean forests and streams, organize ecological events for tourists and locals, and much more…

Volunteers not only perform work - they interact with locals, hike, swim, climb, see wonderful waterfalls and breathtaking glaciers, and are introduced to native flora and fauna.

If you want to...
• contribute to and protect the environment
• spend your free time doing good and useful things
• explore a new country, culture and traditions
• find new friends worldwide
… Just join us!!!

We’re open for co-operation with those who are interested in organizing and participating in ENVI work camps, internships, workshops, bilateral or multilateral projects...
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