make an impact on tomorrow

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Be a champion for nature conservation. 

Whether you can donate your time to help us scale our activities, or are ready to hop on a plane to Peru,
​we welcome you! ​

If interested in supporting us offsite and donate your time to help us with admin, fundraising, or other organizational tasks, please email us at info@yunkawasiperu.org. Include a brief description of your skills and amount of hours/week you can donate. We will schedule a video call and will take it from there.

If you are an undergrad, master, or doctoral student looking for a field site to conduct your thesis research or interested in developing a research proposal in topics that align with our objectives, please email Fanny Cornejo at fmcornejo@yunkawasiperu.org.

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come to corosha

Former volunteer Maria observing Andean bears in Copal

Volunteers observing a group of yellow-tailed woolly monkeys

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Corosha offers an exciting variety of long-term volunteer opportunities for those wishing to make positive contributions to the world, to conduct fieldwork before graduate school, and to experience another culture.

Long-term volunteers commit to at least two months of service and are welcome to stay for extended periods of time. Similar to the tourism project, volunteers experience the culture of Corosha through participation in a homestay program. Volunteers are provided the opportunity to live and dine with multiple members of the community throughout their time in the program. 

Unlike some other volunteer programs, the local community receives the majority of the donations received from this program (92%), thus enhancing the community's collective well-being and strengthening their ability to protect their forests by providing an alternative source of income to traditional environmentally destructive activities.

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​​The community of Corosha directly receives 92% of the donations received through the volunteer program.

Standard donation per month: ~2000 Peruvian Soles (PEN)
Your donation will support: your lodging (~120 PEN/month), your meals (16 PEN/day), salary for one community guide for 20 days (60 PEN/day), natural protected area community fee (40 PEN/month), and contribution to offset office costs onsite (~160 PEN/month).

Peruvian Sol Exchange Rates

Listed below are just a few examples of how you can contribute to the conservation of the tropical Andes...

Biological field work

• Andean Bear Monitoring and Conservation: Join our Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus) monitoring and conservation program and collect behavioral data on eight identified individuals and search for tracks and scats within Corosha's protected area, ACP Hierba Buena - Allpayacu and proposed ACP Copal. What makes our program unique from all other Andean bear research projects is the ability to identify individuals without the aid of camera traps and to perform focal animal studies for one hour or more.
• Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey Conservation: Contribute to our extensive project of northern Peru's endemic and critically endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda). Aid the conservation of this rare species by collecting important information regarding their diet, social behavior, hormones and more!
• Andean Night Monkey Conservation: Join our team in the Huiquilla reserve collecting important data about the endangered and little-studied Andean night monkey (Aotus miconax), critical to this species' conservation success. Follow known individuals from dusk until dawn and help us establish a new scientific research station!
• Endemic and Endangered Birds of Peru: Grab your binoculars and help conserve the birds of Peru by conducting research on one or more endemic and endangered bird species for which the region of Amazonas is well known, including: Johnson's tody flycatcher, the long-whiskered owlet, the marvellous spatuletail, the ochre-fronted antpitta, and the royal sunangel. Also, contribute to Corosha's evergrowing bird list by being the first to spot and record unrecorded species!

Other volunteer activities​

• Teaching English as a Second Language: Help the local community's tourism association reach a broader market by teaching English and creating tourism interpretative materials to enhance the communication between the local community and English-speaking tourists.
• Environmental Education: Create fun and informative teaching materials and illustrate the importance of conserving the local environment to primary and secondary students, inspiring Corosha's next generation of cloud forest conservationists.
• Community Health Development​: Contribute to existing community health initiatives within Corosha by preparing workshops as well as working one-on-one with community members to emphasize the importance of balanced nutrition and how it can be achieved using local resources.

​If you have ideas for other volunteer projects, please email us, we would love to hear about them!