http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/volunteering Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:23:17 -0400 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:23:17 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/572/selling-the-wild-challenges-facing-volunteer-based-conservation-projects By Eve R. Hill - Volunteer conservation is a rapidly growing sub-sector of eco-tourism where fee-paying volunteers travel to developing countries to actively engage in conservation work (Cousins et al 2009b). As volunteers provide the labor and funding for these projects, organizations vie for the attention and capital of volunteers through advertising. Consequently, conservation work has become a marketable commodity in a competitive neoliberal market that is increasingly dominated by private companies (Cousins et al 2009b; Lorimer 2010). To ‘sell’ conservation, volunteer organizations thus construct... Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/572/selling-the-wild-challenges-facing-volunteer-based-conservation-projects