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Earthwatch Institute (www.earthwatch.org) is a nonprofit that sends volunteers to science-based conservation and cultural projects in fifty-five countries to protect threatened habitats, species, and cultures. Expeditions are two-week contributions of participants' time, money, support, and spirit to professional, peer-reviewed scientific research. Research priorities are based on climate change, endangered species and resources, marine biology and ocean conservation, and threatened traditional cultures.
Participants contribute to their room and board, research permits, scientific equipment, off-site staff to coordinate logistics and safety, carbon offsets to neutralize the researchers' footprints, and more. Part of the contribution may be tax-deductible. Some of the excursions for 2008 were trips to Africa, Australia, Central America and the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and North America. One of the Africa excursions has Earth-watch teams mapping the locations, movements, and associations of two zebra species in northern Kenya's Samburu region.
Questions
-What strategies would you use to implement a program to recruit volunteers willing to pay for the privilege of volunteering?