{"id":194886,"date":"2013-04-23T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.swoop-patagonia.co.uk\/?p=194886"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T12:33:06","slug":"volunteering-in-patagonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer work in Patagonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had lots of people ask us recently about volunteering in Patagonia and we haven&#8217;t been able to offer as many opportunities as we&#8217;d like to.<\/p>\n<p>However this message arrived yesterday from Paula at Conservacion Patagonica and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to visit the future Patagonia National Park when I was touring Aisen in November last year. It&#8217;s an absolutely beautiful location and you can already see the benefits of all the hard work that has gone in there.<\/p>\n<h3>Volunteering with Conservacion Patagonica, November &#8217;13 to March &#8217;14<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservacionpatagonica.org\/makeadifference_v.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo credits to Eug\u00e9nie Frerichs \" src=\"https:\/\/content.delivra.com\/etapcontent\/\/ConservacionPatagonica\/Volunteer%201.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to contribute sweat and muscle to the creation of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservacionpatagonica.org\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">future national park<\/a>?\u00a0Think that building trails, collecting seeds, practicing a second language, and baking backcountry bread sounds like a good vacation?<\/p>\n<p>Willing to get hailed on, hike hills, pull thistle and make new friends, all in the name of saving and restoring this spectacular landscape?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservacionpatagonica.org\/makeadifference_v.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/content.delivra.com\/etapcontent\/\/ConservacionPatagonica\/Volunteer%203.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re accepting applications now for our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservacionpatagonica.org\/makeadifference_v.htm\" target=\"_blank\">volunteer program<\/a>\u00a0for the 2013 &#8211; 2014 summer season. The program will run in five three-week sessions, from early November through late March, with eight participants per group. Young and old, from Chile to China&#8211; all those who are fit, game, comfortable in Spanish and English, and willing to live and work in the backcountry of the future park are encouraged to apply!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservacionpatagonica.org\/makeadifference_v.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/content.delivra.com\/etapcontent\/\/ConservacionPatagonica\/Volunteer%202.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credits to Eug\u00e9nie Frerichs<\/p>\n<p>Applications are due by\u00a0<strong>June 1, 2013<\/strong>. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested in applying, please read more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservacionpatagonica.org\/makeadifference_v.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. They are also looking to hire a field leader for the volunteer program; see job description\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservacionpatagonica.org\/makeadifference_jobs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And if the program&#8217;s not for you (or if you&#8217;ve participated already but can&#8217;t make it back), please spread the word to anyone you think might enjoy this experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had lots of people ask us recently about volunteering in Patagonia and we haven&#8217;t been able to offer as many opportunities as we&#8217;d like to. However this message arrived yesterday from Paula at Conservacion Patagonica and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible. I was lucky enough to visit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[50,77,270],"class_list":["post-194886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteering-in-patagonia","tag-aysen","tag-chile","tag-volunteering"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Volunteer work in Patagonia - Swoop Patagonia Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Volunteer work in Patagonia - Swoop Patagonia Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;ve had lots of people ask us recently about volunteering in Patagonia and we haven&#8217;t been able to offer as many opportunities as we&#8217;d like to. However this message arrived yesterday from Paula at Conservacion Patagonica and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible. I was lucky enough to visit the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swoop Patagonia Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swooptravel\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-23T09:59:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-10-23T12:33:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/content.delivra.com\/etapcontent\/\/ConservacionPatagonica\/Volunteer%201.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Luke Errington\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SwoopPatagonia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Luke Errington\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Luke Errington\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2d28a66600d0e30464d10260dea0f8bb\"},\"headline\":\"Volunteer work in Patagonia\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-23T09:59:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-23T12:33:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/\"},\"wordCount\":300,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"aysen\",\"chile\",\"volunteering\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Volunteering\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/\",\"name\":\"Volunteer work in Patagonia - Swoop Patagonia Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-23T09:59:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-23T12:33:06+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Volunteer work in Patagonia\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Swoop Patagonia Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swoop Patagonia Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swoop-patagonia-logo-blog.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swoop-patagonia-logo-blog.svg\",\"width\":1220,\"height\":108,\"caption\":\"Swoop Patagonia Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2d28a66600d0e30464d10260dea0f8bb\",\"name\":\"Luke Errington\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Luke-Errington-Swoop-CEO-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Luke-Errington-Swoop-CEO-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Luke Errington\"},\"description\":\"Luke fell in love with Patagonia when he first trekked through the Andes some 15 years ago. In 2010 he founded Swoop Patagonia and since then has trekked, ridden and paddled thousands of miles throughout the region. At home in Bristol he's a dad of three, and a keen trail runner and adventure racer.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.co.uk\/\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swooptravel\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwoopPatagonia\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/author\/luke\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Volunteer work in Patagonia - Swoop Patagonia Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Volunteer work in Patagonia - Swoop Patagonia Blog","og_description":"We&#8217;ve had lots of people ask us recently about volunteering in Patagonia and we haven&#8217;t been able to offer as many opportunities as we&#8217;d like to. However this message arrived yesterday from Paula at Conservacion Patagonica and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible. I was lucky enough to visit the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/","og_site_name":"Swoop Patagonia Blog","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swooptravel\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel","article_published_time":"2013-04-23T09:59:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-10-23T12:33:06+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/content.delivra.com\/etapcontent\/\/ConservacionPatagonica\/Volunteer%201.jpg"}],"author":"Luke Errington","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SwoopPatagonia","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Luke Errington","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/"},"author":{"name":"Luke Errington","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2d28a66600d0e30464d10260dea0f8bb"},"headline":"Volunteer work in Patagonia","datePublished":"2013-04-23T09:59:07+00:00","dateModified":"2015-10-23T12:33:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/"},"wordCount":300,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["aysen","chile","volunteering"],"articleSection":["Volunteering"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/","name":"Volunteer work in Patagonia - Swoop Patagonia Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-04-23T09:59:07+00:00","dateModified":"2015-10-23T12:33:06+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/volunteering-in-patagonia\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Volunteer work in Patagonia"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/","name":"Swoop Patagonia Blog","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Swoop Patagonia Blog","url":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swoop-patagonia-logo-blog.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swoop-patagonia-logo-blog.svg","width":1220,"height":108,"caption":"Swoop Patagonia Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2d28a66600d0e30464d10260dea0f8bb","name":"Luke Errington","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Luke-Errington-Swoop-CEO-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Luke-Errington-Swoop-CEO-96x96.jpg","caption":"Luke Errington"},"description":"Luke fell in love with Patagonia when he first trekked through the Andes some 15 years ago. In 2010 he founded Swoop Patagonia and since then has trekked, ridden and paddled thousands of miles throughout the region. At home in Bristol he's a dad of three, and a keen trail runner and adventure racer.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.co.uk\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swooptravel\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel","https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwoopPatagonia"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/author\/luke\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198753,"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194886\/revisions\/198753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}