Volunteer Hub
There are loads of awesome organisations in our community that you can volunteer with, and opportunities for you to contribute to influential science with your photos, time or simply by walking on the beach! Get involved and be part of regenerating and conserving our amazing coast, waterways and ocean.
Curious About Volunteering & Citizen Science Opportunities?
Project/Organisation
Activity
Location
Bird Monitoring Program
Byron Bird Buddies
Citizen Science & Volunteering - Monitoring and education activities with the aim of improving the conservation and knowledge of birds within our Shire
Byron Shire & Ballina
East Coast Dolphin Watch Program
Dolphin Research Australia
Citizen Science - Observing & monitoring dolphin & whale populations - submit your own sightings, join a training workshop or community survey
Australia wide
Happy Whale Marine Mammal Research
Happy Whale
Citizen Science - Submit your photographs of humpback whales & other cetaceans
Worldwide
iNaturalist Biodiversity Project
Byron Bay Hope Spot
Citizen science - help to monitor the species and habitats in the region by logging sightings of marine and coastal fauna and flora, providing a record of biodiversity over time.
Byron Shire & Ballina
Join the Ozfish Richmond River chapter
Ozfish Unlimited
Volunteering - A group of passionate recfishers and community members working to achieving a goal of improving their local waterways.
Richmond River
Northern Rivers Conservation Community Hub
Positive Change For Marine Life
Volunteering - A community hub for passionate marine conservation volunteers in the Northern Rivers, run by PCFML
Northern NSW & QLD
NSW TurtleWatch
Australian Seabird & Turtle Rescue
Citizen Science - walk your local beaches from November to March, looking for the presence or absence of sea turtle tracks and nest
NSW coast
Project Manta
University of Queensland & University of the Sunshine Coast
Citizen Science - Submit your identification photographs of manta rays to support the long-term conservation of manta rays and their relatives.
All locations
Volunteer with ASTR
Australian Seabird & Turtle Rescue
Volunteering - check out the website to see what roles are available at the Seabird and Turtle Hospital to help in the rescue & rehabilitation of local marine wildlife
Ballina
Volunteer with Brunswick Valley Landcare
Brunswick Valley Landcare
Volunteering - play a vital role in ongoing efforts to protect and restore the natural environment of Byron Shire
Byron Shire
Volunteer with PCFML
Positive Change For Marine Life
Volunteering - Data collection, GIS mapping, riparian revegetation, water quality and mangrove monitoring, kayak surveys, beach clean-ups, events, fundraising…and more!
Northern NSW & QLD
Become an Ocean Champion!
Join us at an event or workshop to get trained in hands-on actions you can do to help conserve and regenerate our coast and ocean.
