Eco-tourism ranch, Canada

A family with a ranch in Bragg Creek, near the Kananaskis Country, 30km from Calgary, Alberta, that spans 154 acres and is home to horses, chickens and two children, need help with their gardening, cleaning the forest and trails, and helping at their guesthouse. They provide accommodation in a three-bed cabin with a wood-burning stove. Five provincial parks lie on the doorstep for hiking, mountain biking, horseriding and, in winter, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
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A husky tour company, Norwegian Lapland

Staying in a cabin at a lodge near the Karasjohka river, near Karasjok, you will look after and walk the dogs, rent out cabins to tourists who come for husky sled rides and do general maintenance. Your free time can be spent in the owners seaside house watching whales and seals.
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Beach resort, Cook Islands

If you can get yourself there, this placement will be paradise. A German resort owner needs help running his beachfront budget accommodation – housekeeping, cooking, gardening, maintenance, laundry, accounting and greeting guests. As a theology graduate who trained in natural medicine and is into "personal and spiritual" growth, he also hopes you'll be up for lively discussion. You get a room in his house, use of bikes and scooters.
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Elephant research and/or cooking, Sri Lanka

Good cooks, or those with a degree in biology or zoology, are preferred at a low-impact treehouse jungle lodge near Weliara. Work includes scientific research into the local elephant population of the Yala national park, which is threatened by deforestation (that has led to human-elephant conflict in local villages), in a bid to make the area an elephant conservation habitat. They also need cooks to develop vegetarian meals that fuse their own ideas with local curries.
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Artist community, Italy

"Energetic dreamers" are sought by a community of English-speaking international artists in a former boutique B&B 45 minutes north-east of Rome. The group is transforming an old monastery in Umbria into a non-proft arts centre, and needs help with that, as well as on arts projects, maintaining the grounds, cleaning the pool and gues trooms, organising concerts and artistic productions. You get a tent in an olive grove or shared room in the ex-B&B, can join in meditation and nature walks . . . and if you really fit in you may be invited to stay for good!
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