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African Conservation Experience - Game Capture Team
Game Capture is a specialised part of reserve and wildlife management in South Africa. Volunteers can join the capture and relocation of species such as buffalo, rhino, giraffe and antelopes.
Catch Of The Day
It's been a busy season for the Game Capture Team ! The work of this group of specialists and the volunteers that lend hands-on support is notoriously unpredictable: They travel across the country,...
Game Capture in Abu Dhabi - Exciting opportunity for an experienced vet
You never know where a conservation volunteering project might lead you! Last year, Nancy joined us for a Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience, and this year she found herself working in the ...
Buffalo Capture
When animals need to be relocated, a specialised capture team comes into to do the job. This is hands-on and adrenaline fuelled work!
The African Buffalo
The African buffalo is a very robust species. It is up to 1.7 metres high, 3.4 meters long. While not particularly demanding with regard to habitat, they require water daily and therefore depend on perennial sources of water.
Impala in the boma
Impala are herded into a boma before they are loaded onto a truck for relocation.
Giraffe capture
Volunteers get up close to giraffes and gain hands-on experience in the unique game capture industry
Rhino capture
M99 is a powerful morphine derivative. Once sedated with M99, a rhino will sink to the ground, allowing the capture team to rope the animal and take blood and other samples.
The Male Waterbuck -a classic African antelope
As its name would indicate, the waterbuck inhabits areas that are close to water in savanna grasslands, gallery forests and riverine woodlands south of the Sahara. Such habitats not only provide sustenance but long grasses and watery places in which to hide from predators.
Hands-on capture work
Students at game capture get the opportunity to experience the every day workings of the team, and are afforded the opportunity to get hands on capture experience - as opposed to being only spectators!
Moving a white rhino
When large animals such as this rhino need to be moved, a vet is always on site to dart the animal, a highly skilled job.
Mass Giraffe Capture
Volunteers assist with giraffe capture while working with the game capture team. The giraffes are darted by a qualified wildlife vet before the volunteers guide them onto a truck for translocation.
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