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Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre and Khulula Wild Care - Animal Care Projects
Volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in South Africa gives you hands on experience in animal care, rehabilitation and hand-rearing of wildlife.
Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre contributes to the conservation of endangered species and the rehabilitation of injured and poisoned wildlife. Moholoholo also facilitates a number of successful breeding programmes
The New Face of WWF South Africa
Past ACE volunteer Erin and black rhino Della help raise funds for World Wildlife Fund! Past volunteer Erin Prigmore, now working at Moholoholo Rehabilitation Centre, and 20 month old black rhino ...
Leopard Relocation to Malawi
Volunteers at Moholoholo Rehabilitation Centre have been busy this last month, relocating two leopard to Majete Wildlife Reserve, situated in Malawi's lower Shire valley. The two young leopards are...
Phinda was pure heaven...
Volunteer returns to Africa...Christina Cooper shares her conservation diary... "Choosing a conservation project was the hardest obstacle to overcome All of us who work in some of the finest zool...
The Sounds of Moholoholo
The early morning starts with the excited laugh of two spotted hyenas named Shadow and Shade; within minutes the epic roars of the lion Big Boy can be heard across Moholoholo and finally Chui the l...
Elephant Encounters at Moholoholo
One of the most challenging aspects of volunteering at Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is the emotional and often challenging conditions in which an animal arrives at the centre. Just las...
Moholoholo’s Newest arrivals - Furry, growling, mischievous and in need of a lot of love and care!
The staff and volunteers at Moholoholo are used to receiving urgent phone calls, asking them to come and take in injured or orphaned animals. The two latest arrivals are Luma the spotted hyena and ...
Baby Black Rhino Is Rescued!
At 4 weeks old she arrived on the 21 February 2010 which fell on the last Sunday of the month. Sunday is normally a day of down time for volunteers… except when the unexpected happens! Moh...
Abandoned rhino Thabo cared for by ACE volunteer
Thabo came into Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre as a severely emaciated young two week old rhino, from one of the North West Parks Board reserves, so young he still had remnants of his um...
New arrivals at Moholoholo!
There have been some exciting new arrivals at Moholoholo. The breeding season is in full swing out in South Africa, and the first of the season's injured and orphaned animals have begun to arrive a...
Action-packed day at Moholoholo
Anyone who has been out to a project will know just how variable your days can be, but for every quiet day, there is a chance you'll have a day like this! It all started bright and early when the ...
Are you in?
Most animals are free to socialise with the workers and volunteers at Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
Cheetah Kill
The cheetah has an average hunting success rate of around 50% - half of its chases result in capture.
Wildlife veterinary work
Volunteers get hands-on with the treatment and care of sick and injured birds, mammals and reptiles and subsequent release back into the wild.
Hand rearing cheetahs
Volunteers gets hands-on with the caring of orphaned animals which usually involves a lot of hand rearing. At Khulula Wild Care volunteers can complete a course on hand rearing and infant care accredited by the South African Veterinary Council.
Feeding time
A good hand-rearer should be prepared to invest a lot of effort with the reward being the release of a successfully rehabilitated animal.
How to hand rear a rhino
A good hand-rearer should be prepared to invest a lot of effort with the reward being the release of a successfully rehabilitated animal. 15% of body weight per day is required to supply nutritional needs for rhinos and in some cases feeds are required throughout the night.
Hand rearing a rhino
Given the current conservation status of both the black and white rhino populations, each and every animal is of high importance. Bottle feeding is the preferable method used for hand rearing these animals.
Baby lion cub
Lion cubs are vulnerable to predators such as hyenas and leopards but the most significant threat comes from other lions. When a new male coalition takes over a pride they are often confronted by the cubs of the males that they defeated. Since females will not mate again until their cubs are 18 months of age, the new males kill all the young cubs in their new pride in order to bring the females back to estrus
Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
Video of the volunteer programme at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre.
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