Peace Corps Environment Sector

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Create a more sustainable world

Become an Environment Volunteer to work with community members to increase environmental awareness and better manage natural resources in healthy and productive ways.

Environment Volunteers work to protect the planet by honing their own skills while collaborating with community partners to lead grassroots efforts promoting environmental awareness, sustainable management of natural resources, and much more.

Opportunities in Environment

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Nepal
Community Forest and Environment Advocate
Panama
Community Environmental Conservation Promoter
Tonga
Environmental Education Volunteer
Malawi
Health and Environmental Promoter
Malawi
English and Environmental Educator
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After arriving by cargo ship, this 6,000-liter water tank was lifted and carried into the village by locals in Vanuatu.

Sushil talks to workshop participants in about goat management practices in Nepal.

Volunteer Collins collaborates with community members on sustainable organic gardens in Paraguay.

A training focused on plant breeding in Paraguay.

During the day this Volunteer teaches English, and after hours she helps her Ukrainian host family in the garden.

A Volunteer and Senegalese youth enjoy an interesting view.

A school principal shows a video about environmental change to primary students in Samoa.

Community members attend an "eco-brick" workshop in the Philippines. Bricks can be traded for rice and will eventually be used for construction.

Elementary school students learn how to make eco-bricks at an environmental camp in the Philippines.

Registering local fisherfolk in a national identification database to support monitoring activities and livelihood assistance in the Philippines.

A Volunteer examines a mangrove tree during a mangrove habitat assessment in the Philippines.

A Volunteer conducts mangrove habitat assessments with community members in the Philippines.

A group of local biology students explore a dig at a significant Mayan archeological site, accompanied by a Volunteer (pointing) who lives nearby.

After fundraising for months, students and teachers from a small village take a field trip to visit Mayan archeological sites in northern Belize.

Students create a biointensive garden at their school in Mexico with the support of a Volunteer.

Volunteers and community members clean up trash in local howler monkey habitat in Panama.

Volunteer Emily Heller learns how to grind corn from her host mother in Panama.

Loading a new biodigester in Peru with a slurry of pig manure and water.

Middle school students in Peru use charts to identify cloud cover and participate in other science projects with the support of a Response Volunteer.

A town council member, a student, and a Volunteer protect young saplings that have been planted to reduce erosion in a rural community in Peru.

Response Volunteer Dane works as a marine ecologist alongside local scientists to survey the health of coral reefs in Jamaica.

Response Volunteer Betsy enjoys nsima, Malawi's staple food, with a work crew and reserve staff during a training at Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve.

Response Volunteer Betsy trains local wildlife reserve rangers in radio-tracking for elephants.

Students in an environment club help propagate plants at a tree nursery in Malawi.

This school won first prize in a "Zero Waste" competition in their region with the support of a Volunteer. Teachers, the director, and students present items they made from recyclable materials.