Vereinigung Junger Freiwilliger

Beschreibung:
Work: we will do a survey for a monitoring of marine litter in several places on the coastline.We will clean certain areas (position recorded by GPS on our "CUC map") in different parts of Iceland and collect all the trash on the beach and classify it in a standard form. We will make photos of the coastline,This project provides us the standard methodology needed to produce some serious data. At the end, we will create a scientific data useful to know more about the pollution in the oceans and on the coastline. Take a look at http://cleanupthecoastline.wordpress.com/ for more information.The marine area around Iceland is regarded as one of the cleanest of the world. Nevertheless, marine litter such as persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals or hydrocarbons is constantly contaminating Iceland‘s shore. A large-scale surface of the Icelandic coastline is concerned by this pollution and some beaches are even fully covered by trash, mainly caused by poorly managed landfills close by. Location: We will do some hikes in different areas in Iceland. In some places we will have a free entrance to the swimming pools. This camp is also On the move so you will travel a lot during the camp and see beautiful places. Partner: Do you want to travel around Iceland and at the same time participate in a very important project?The biggest and best known project of our organization is the "Clean Up the Coastline" (CUC) project. We have for the last three years been cleaning the coastline of Iceland and we will continue that work for the next five years, a part of this is to locate all items on the coastline which are too big to move by hands. Our volunteers are going to travel all around the island, they will locate the items with GPS positioning system, measure them and estimate the weight and make photos as well. The information will be put into an electronic map on our website. For the first three days the group will stay in Reykjavik to get information about the tasks, than they will travel around the island for 7 days and in the end of the project they will stay in Reykjavik for four more days to put the information online. We will visit several of our workcamps during the trip and do some cleaning activities with the groups.During the trip we will also visit some of the most beautiful places in Iceland while doing the trip around the island. Requirements: Volunteers with good computer skills, interested in scientific work and/or photographing are very much welcome to this camp. Accomodation and food: The group will be stay in the accommodation of our workcamps where possible. In some places we might stay in tents which will be provided by WF IcelandThe food will be provided for the duration of the work camp and everyone is expected to do their fair share of the cooking/cleaning. It would be nice to share new and different dishes, so please remember to bring along recipes from your own countries.

Location: REYKJAVIK

Land: ISL

Region: -

Flughafen:

Bahnstation: Keflavik Int airport

Sprachen: en

Mindestalter: 18 Jahre

Höchstalter: 99 Jahre

Camp/Projekt geeignet für Menschen mit
Benachteiligungen: Nein

Vegetarisches Essen: Nein

Familie: Nein

Extragebühren: 180,00 €