Location
  • Mozambique

Program Details

Activities
Animal Viewing Scuba Diving Swimming

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Starting Price
1125
Price Details
The programme fee for our volunteer projects includes accommodation, three meals a day, transfers to and from the project when you arrive and all the equipment needed to do your work. The volunteer fee also contributes to the development of new programmes and ensures that all the projects where you work are sustainable long term.
Oct 21, 2024
Aug 25, 2024
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About Program

Join a world-class research team in one of Africa’s most beautiful coastal locations. Mozambique's coast is one of the best scuba diving locations in Africa, home to large populations of whale sharks, manta rays and turtles, and is an important refuge for other threatened marine species like the elusive dugong.

The legendary beaches around the project boast some of the most beautiful stretches of land in Africa and are the ideal place to see southern Africa’s marine Big 5 - whale sharks, manta rays, hammerheads, reef sharks and sea turtles. This stretch of coast is considered to be one of the top 10 dive sites in the world.

Volunteers support Marine Biologists and researchers, collecting data for conservation projects including whale shark, manta ray and marine turtle research programs. This conservation project was designed by a leading manta ray researcher and a whale shark expert specifically to collect data needed for studies to protect and preserve threatened marine mammals.

This program is no longer offered. View more programs from Conservation Travel Africa.

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Program Highlights

  • Experience one of the world's top 10 dive locations and contribute to vital marine research
  • Dive close to whale sharks and giant manta rays, in the clear waters of the Indian Ocean
  • Learn new research, identification and data collection techniques, as you assist biologists in their ongoing studies
  • Live in a stunning lodge, just metres from white sandy beaches
  • Get your PADI certification, and have the option to become Dive Master certified while on the programme

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Maike
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No, I don't recommend this program

Never again with CTA!!!

Before I travelled, everything seemed fine and Jane answered all my questions and provided support. As penning my flights was cancelled the nightmare started. Jane wasn’t reacting, Calum neither. I got stuck and support hours later than needed. Ones in the project, I had to discover that there was no project. No research took place at all, just diving with a diving school without research tasks. Calum showed up to say hello days later and nearly only talked to volunteers drunk and in a manner that I felt uncomfortable. Asking about research and complaining only led to promises that never were held. What about the fours research acitivities? Nothing at all. Most days Calum did not show up at all or was so late that activities need to be cancelled. The dive school was great so I did an additional diving course. Overall, a lot of money spend for no research and a really cheap and old accommodation in the middle of nowhere and far from Tofo where it was supposed to be. None of the promised mosquito nets, no bathroom door, construction and volunteers being moved around. At spring tide, we even had to walk up to an hour to the dive school.

What is your advice to future travelers on this program?
Don’t go there! Choose another programme and another organisation and protect yourself from all the disappointment
Pros
  • Nice stuff
  • Swimming lessons for children
Cons
  • No research
  • Project manager unreliable
  • A lot of false promises
3 people found this review helpful.

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