Involvement Volunteers International 
Volunteer with Animals Abroad
Are you passionate about wildlife and want to travel abroad? Whether you’re a veterinarian, an aspiring vet or simply a passionate animal lover, volunteering overseas on animal welfare projects is an amazing experience, which provides genuine help to people in developing communities and a great addition to any resume.
Who can apply to volunteer with animals abroad?
For most of our animal projects, no experience is required, just a love of all things wildlife, a desire to work hard and do good for the local animals and community.
Veterinary interns/ professionals are especially needed to work alongside local professionals to develop new ways of thinking and to supplement local resourcing, due to severe cost constraints found in developing countries.
Sadly, animal welfare is not always a significant concern in regions where human social & economical development issues exist. For this reason, animal welfare in developing countries is particularly needed.
You can help to protect endangered animals, or care for them, ready to re-homed into loving families.
ALL ANIMAL PROJECTS
What does animal volunteering involve?
We have programs across a variety of fields, such as wildlife conservation, animal shelters, and veterinary experience (depending on qualifications).
If you'd love to get hands on with the animals, then an animal shelter will suit you, as you can feed, bathe, and exercise the animals.
Our wildlife conservation projects focus on protecting natural animal habitats, caring for injured animals, and education/ awareness on animal care.
When you volunteer with animals you’ll receive a supervisor who is responsible for ensuring you have the support necessary. You may also be able to shadow professionals to gain valuable hands-on experience to take back home.
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Responsible Treatment of Wildlife
IVI Volunteers are very passionate about ensuring that our animal placements do not support cruel animal ‘tourism’ practises. We would never recommend a project which is not aligned to our values in this area.
For example, the Elephant Adventure in Thailand was set up to sustain the elephant population and surrounding natural environment in a very remote region of Thailand well off the beaten tourist trail. Caring for elephants is a very resource heavy process. Volunteers assist the local people in caring for these animals in their natural habitat by gathering sugarcane and banana trees etc. This alone makes a massive difference by supplementing existing resources, which is heavily constrained by local economic issues.
Other projects such as sea turtle conservation Bali are designed primarily to support the local habitat and local community. In many developing countries there is a much higher incident rate of animal neglect, and therefore also a great need for volunteer assistance.
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