Keywords: Horticulture, Permaculture, Wildlife Conservation, Sustainable Development, Spanish, Biology, Botany, Eco-Tourism, Ecology, Environmental Sustainability, Forestry, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Habitat Restoration, Zoology

Join this public service non-profit as they tackle issues of climate change, environmentalism, and sustainable community development in an ecotourism hotspot.

Keywords: Advertising, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Merchandising, Trade and Commerce, Economic Empowerment, Sustainable Development, Spanish, Economics

Participate in a business internship with a focus on international commerce in the birthplace of chocolate.  As a fair-trade chocolate producer, this company’s business model is designed to give back to the local community and provide fair wages to local cacao growers.

Keywords: Culinary Arts, Spanish, Chocolate Production

Participate in a culinary internship with two master chocolatiers in the birthplace of chocolate.  Drawing on historical records dating back to the European conquest of the Americas, their line of fair-trade chocolates is created from start-to-finish in Costa Rica and includes flavors drawn from local ingredients.

Keywords: Horticulture, Permaculture, Wildlife Conservation, Sustainable Development, Spanish, Bilingual Education, Environmental Conservation, Biology, Botany, Conservation Fieldwork, Eco-Tourism, Ecology, Environmental Sustainability, Forestry, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Habitat Restoration, Zoology, Public Health

Join this public service non-profit as they employ education, research, and community engagement to tackle issues of climate change, environmentalism, and sustainable community development.

Keywords: Wildlife Conservation, Zoology, Biology, Botany, Cellular Biology, Conservation Fieldwork, Ecology, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sustainability, Forestry, Genetics, Geographic Information Systems, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography

This premier international research center conducts scientific research and explorations of natural history at seven different terrestrial and marine field stations equipped with modern laboratories.

This internship site is currently on hold and not accepting interns at this time.

Keywords: Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish, Environmental Conservation, Biology, Botany, Conservation Fieldwork, Eco-Tourism, Ecology, Environmental Sustainability, Forestry, Genetics, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Habitat Restoration, Molecular Biology, Zoology

This organization provides leadership in education, research and the responsible use of natural resources in the tropics. Interns will support the research, environmental sustainability, eco-tourism, and educational projects that take place at one of their biological stations and botanical gardens near San Vito, Costa Rica.