Expedition Blogs
Read real life volunteer experiences on a range of projects:
Dr George McGavin, a speaker at the Earthwatch November 2008 debate, shares his views about the natural world.
Land Rover employee Jon Tongue recounts his experiences.
Dr. Rich Reading talks about his work in one of the world's last great wildernesses.
Volunteer Alexandra Bowers finds a heavenly retreat from everyday life in a cloud forest in Ecuador.
Earthwatch volunteer David Brindle surveys seabirds on an expedition to the Alaskan wilderness.
Earthwatch volunteer Jon Potts comes face to face with the world's fastest mammal.
Earthwatch scientist Joan Gonzalvo Villegas talks passionately about his unique place of work in Greece's Amvrakikos Gulf.
Volunteer Catherine Avorseh gives a snapshot of her expedition to Ghana, researching the rare white-necked rock fowl.
Read about the daily life of Earthwatch's Samburu Wildlife and Communities Field Director.
Volunteer Jen Tweddell gets up close and personal with Baja’s grey whales.
Earthwatch volunteer Yew Wah from Malaysia gives a snapshot of her expedition to a tropical rainforest in Queensland, Australia.
Berry Wong gets up close and personal with penguins on an Earthwatch expedition to South Africa.
"Surely out there in the darkness there is a hyena scavenging."
Sugar highs and carbon lows - the sweeter way to Greece.
A honeymoon with a difference...
"I'm standing in wellies slowly sinking into soggy, squashy terrain..."
"Nothing can quite prepare you for stepping out onto a glacier for the first time."
My long-held hope of joining an archaeological dig was answered last summer when the opportunity came along to combine this with the pleasure of working with the first Earthwatch UK teen team.
The Amvrakikos Gulf is home to around 150 bottlenose dolphins.
"By the time we had finished travelling along the west of Tiree we had seen 26 (basking sharks)."
"It was my dream to volunteer for Earthwatch and visit one of the remotest parts of the world."
Agnes Gambill relays her experiences of Samburu, Kenya.
Earthwatch staff member, Nicole, recounts her experiences on Lions of Tsavo and Elephants of Tsavo.
Raihan E. Huq an volunteer from HSBC Bangladesh reports...
Laurie McAndish King with her experiences from Madagascar's Lemurs.
Andros, the largest island in the Bahamas, has been invaded by Australians...