Work with the wildlife

Working alongside Wildlifevets.com and their highly qualified team, you will be exposed to many elements of wildlife veterinary work including a fascinating new venture, Nsikazi Project, to render minimum disease risk and reduce wildlife and human conflict at the interface between wildlife conservation parks and the local community.

Join one of the most well known and respected wildlife vets in Africa, with experience of working in the world famous Kruger National Park and resident game capture team and assist in the following activities:

Clinical veterinary work at resident clinic and in the field

• You may assist with community veterinary services and wildlife veterinary work in the field, including wildlife intoxication cases. The team also frequently assist in forensic work on carcasses of poached animals.

Game capture

• The veterinary team are specialists in the chemical immobilisation of wildlife. Other capture techniques are also utilised and include mass capture, passive capture, net capture and humane trapping and baiting.
• As a volunteer you will assist both the veterinarians and highly trained and dedicated game capture team, learning the use of specialised equipment.

Chemical captures using various darting methods

• Assist with the darting of endangered, rare and highly valuable species and learn about various drugs used in such procedures.

Veterinary research and disease control

• You will join the team in clinical trials on wildebeest and other species, and disease testing of various species in breeding projects.