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Work With Animals - Volunteer on Wildlife Conservation Projects
There are a range of different wildlife conservation projects where volunteers can get involved, getting first hand experience while they work with animals.
Wildlife Volunteer Africa - Conservation Internships - Management of Wildlife in Africa
Volunteering at these wildlife management and conservation projects involves working alongside game rangers, field researchers and a wildlife capture team in southern Africa.
Game Ranger Courses and Wildlife Tracking Courses in Africa with ACE
Our Game Ranger Courses offer a thorough introduction to the wildlife of southern Africa while the Wildlife Tracking Courses provide in depth training in a challenging environment.
African Conservation Experience - Game Ranger Guide Course -
This course is ideally suited to people wanting an introduction to conservation in southern Africa and those wishing to pursue a conservation orientated career, as well as wishing to improve their personal knowledge of wildlife.
Phinda Wildlife Management Project
Phinda is one of the success stories of large mammal reintroduction. Volunteers at Phinda become research assistants, and are actively involved in studying the wonderful biodiversity of this stunning game reserve.
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.
African Conservation Experience - Hanchi Horseback Conservation - Conservation on Horseback
Set in a private game reserve not far from Kruger National Park, Hanchi gives students the opportunity to experience the beautiful African bushveld from the unique viewpoint of being on the back of a horse.
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.
TB Testing Buffalo
All buffalo go through a quarantine period before being sold to another reserve. ACE volunteers get to see the buffalo bulls darted, and help the vet test for Tuberculosis (TB).
Open road
One of the most ecologically friendly ways in which a human can traverse the bush is on horseback and the speed at which a horse walks is perfect for looking for tracks of both animals and man.
Traversing the bush on horseback
Volunteers at Hanchi manage endangered roan and sable antelope breeding herds from horseback and study some of Africa's most elusive and persecuted predators
Impala in the boma
Impala are herded into a boma before they are loaded onto a truck for relocation.
Roan antelope
Between 1986 and 1993, the roan antelope population in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, declined from about 450 to 45 animals. At Hanchi and Zingela these animals are being bred. Volunteers monitor their densities, age and condition on horseback.
Vet attends a buffalo call out
Of the four vets we work with, three of them operate 100% in the field. Volunteers often help out with the testing of disease free buffalo.
Black rhino
The rhino is prized for its horn. Not a true horn, it is made of thickly matted hair that grows from the skull without skeletal support. The major demand for horn is in Asia, where it is used in traditional medicine and ornamental carvings. On Phinda Wildlife Research Project you can help monitor these magnificent creatures.
The Baobab Tree
Nights on the projects are often spent watching beautiful sunsets. At around 20 meters tall, the Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) towers majestically over its neighbours on the African savannas
Phinda Wildlife Research Project
Video of volunteers at the Phinda Wildlife Research Project in South Africa
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