Why Love The Oceans

There are many non-profit organisations around the world, so why join a Love The Oceans program?

Whether you are an early career scientist, need a break from your desk job, a gap year student or just passionate about marine conservation, working with Love The Oceans will be a life changing experience. This year we’re running a 2 week and 4 week research program, and a 3 week Conservation Adventure Program. Here are a few reasons why you should join Love The Oceans.

We have a marine conservation program for anyone aged 18 or over with any level of experience
Qualified marine scientists run our programs
Hands on field experience in a beautiful country
Once in a lifetime chance to work with a grassroots, micro non profit in a rural, third-world country
Chance to collect and use our data for your university project
Earn university credit
Improve your research skills
Have a chance to dive with incredible megafauna
Being a smaller organisation means we have stronger links to the local community
We keep our prices as low as possible to ensure our opportunities are available to everyone
We only work in one country so we have a focussed and achievable goal
We're 100% transparent about where the program fee goes
We're an ethically sound organisation and partners of the WCA
You can be sure you're in safe hands, we're BSI certified
Since we're a micro non-profit, you can see the tangible difference you make

We are always looking for great people willing to donate their time to our projects and in return we offer the opportunity to immerse yourself in an unfamiliar culture and the chance to give back to the planet and its community.

LTO program participants work directly with our marine biologists. We focus on coral reefs, fisheries and humpback whales, which means you will gain a range of field skills that will carry you forward in your career and build your CV. All of the data that LTO volunteers, students and field assistants support the community in collecting is used to lobby for a marine protected area, a shift towards more sustainable fisheries and for the recognition of humpback whales as a valuable marine ecotourism resource for the area. Furthermore, we offer university students the opportunity to use the data they collect and our historic data sets for their final year dissertations.

Love the Oceans is a small, young organisation based in one location. This means there’s the opportunity to work alongside the Founder and Managing Director, Francesca Trotman and the local community in a rural, third world country. This also means we have a closer relationship with the community we work with. Pascoal, our Community Outreach Manager, is from Jangamo and he helps LTO field assistants teach Sea Safety and Marine Resource Management in the local schools.

As an ethical non-profit organisation we do not carry out work that skilled members of the local community can do. LTO fundraisers have provided the money to build classrooms at two of the local schools. The volunteers paint educational murals inside the classrooms however the construction work is done by local builders. This creates jobs and puts money in to the local economy. We only provide education and resources that are not available in the community, with the aim of training a member of the community to teach that skill themselves. To learn more about our ethical policies, click here.

Since 2014 LTO has offered a successful marine experience for students and passionate conservationists. As key members of the LTO team, volunteers work long days in the field but are rewarded by the tangible difference they make. All of your time and skills are contributing to help conserve the Jangamo area and the positive impacts that LTO has made in the community.