Australian Walking Holidays - Community Project Travel
Our range of community project trips are designed to benefit people and environment of Australia, while at the same time you will enjoy cultural interaction and the natural beauty of the region in which you are travelling .
These projects will require a good level of physical fitness. Others are reached via private transport and the only prerequisite is that you be in good health and have a postive attitude. A component of your trip payment will be donated as funding for the materials needed to carry out the project work.
The experience promises to be interactive, philanthropic, educational and uplifting in every sense. Participants can expect to complete the experience having made long term friendships, being part of a team who have contributed to a community in need and with an overriding feeling of personal achievement. So make a difference to the lives of communities less fortunate and sign up to join one of these highly rewarding community projects.
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Arnhem Land, Northern Territory Marine Rescue and Clean Up
DEPARTS GOVE: 5th Sept and 14 Sept 2009
7 day trip, 7 days environmental work, 6 nights camping
One of Australia's most beautiful coastlines, northeast Arnhem Land enjoys the custodianship of its traditional owners, the Yolngu Aboriginal people. While it is virtually free from development this coastline faces a real environmental threat from marine debris. Discarded fishing nets, rubber footwear, empty bottles and plastic bags are all carried in by the currents and deposited on the Arnhem Land coast. This waste is generated elsewhere but is a major threat to local wildlife, with animals choking on plastic rubbish and snared in discarded fishing nets. Alongside local Yolngu Aboriginal Rangers of Dhimurru Land Management, we will traverse the coast on foot and by 4WD to collect, catalogue and dispose of this rubbish. We will scout for turtles and other marine wildlife entangled in nets, freeing the animals where possible. This project combats a modern problem using high-tech techniques combined with traditional Yolngu Aboriginal knowledge and understanding of the land, sea and animals.
Click here to see Getaway Footage taken on an Arnhem Land Marine Rescue Project in 2007
This project is kindly sponsored by PADDY PALLIN
"Meeting the people of Arnhem Land, collecting yams and fishing with them was fantastic. These are gentle, caring people who welcomed us onto their land and we had fun with them. We left greatly enriched and we applaud the good work World Expeditions is doing working along side the local people of this land." Rob and Nancy Pallin. Paddy Pallin.
Franklin River Rafting River Care Project
DEPARTS: 15 March 2009 and 14 March 2010
12 day trip, 8 days rafting, 1 day sailing, 3 days environmental work, 11 nights camping
The Franklin River is renowned for its pristine wilderness as well as its world class white-water rafting. World Expeditions pioneered commercial rafting on the Franklin with the first commercial raft descent in 1978 and ever since has contributed to every campaign to protect this magnificent river. Whilst the river environment is close to pristine, in recent years our local guides have spotted isolated outbreaks of noxious weeds such as blackberry on the riverbanks. Join in the care and custodianship of the Franklin as this project works with Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife to remove these weeds and ensure that the Franklin River remains pristine. Of course the safest way to travel the river is guided by World Expeditions in a white-water raft, so this trip is both a classic rafting expedition and a much needed environmental restoration project.
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This project is kindly sponsored by THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY
"The battle to save the iconic Franklin river from destruction in 1976 inspired the creation of The Wilderness Society – and showed that we can all make a difference in caring for our precious environment. That’s why The Wilderness Society is proud to support World Expeditions Community Project Travel as they contribute to the ongoing work of safeguarding our wild places for future generations." Alec Marr. Executive Director. The Wilderness Society Inc
