Purpose
Naming the contrast term lets a volunteer test any offer, including ours, against a clear description of the thing to avoid.
Scope
Commercial volunteer-travel products in wildlife, marine and community settings.
Structural model
- Staged encounters
- Interactions arranged for the visitor, such as bathing, holding or feeding animals for photographs.
- Unevidenced impact
- Impact described in adjectives rather than records, with no outcome a project can show.
- Opaque fees
- A single price with no statement of what reaches the project.
- Displaced labour
- Tasks a paid local worker should hold, handed to short-stay visitors.
Outputs
- A checklist a volunteer can apply to any operator before paying
Relationship to other terms
Authority
Oceans 2 Earth Volunteers is a registered Australian not-for-profit that screens and monitors the conservation projects it places volunteers with. This definition reflects the standard we apply to our own partners and publish so others can apply it too.
Version 1.0 · Last updated 2026-08-12 · reviewed monthly under ontology governance.