Adventure volunteering is the combination of activities such as bushwalking, kayaking, or rafting, with environmental action. Adventure volunteering allows people to contribute to the environment, not just visit.[1][2]
Adventure volunteering is the explicit linking of effective and targeted environmental work with high value recreational experiences, resulting in the adventure volunteers driving the environmental work program and achieving high level outputs.[3]
One main type of adventure volunteering is adventure weeding, for example, the Sea Spurge Remote Area Teams in Tasmania.[1][3]
Principles
editBecause the activity is volunteer based, funding is not a primary concern. This is especially important for enabling follow up, particularly so for weed management.[1]
It draws on a growing pool of retired or semi retired and capable people, for example baby boomers, and also students.[1]
People being on the ground allows much better detail to be gathered than can be gleaned from satellite imagery and aerial imagery, especially now with very light portable GPS capability and geo referenced data logging. It has proven much more effective than a fly-in-fly-out means of access.[1]