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Volunteering as a Group of Students or a Family
Information about volunteering as a small or large group. We organise volunteering projects for families, university and college student groups and corporate groups.
Group Conservation Placements
Tailored group placements focussing on specific conservation projects or courses, bespoke for each group.
Vets working in the field
Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience offers you the chance to work with experienced wildlife vets in the field on a variety of species
Porcupine Tracks
On the wildlife tracking course students use their new tracking skills to locate wild animals in the bush
Bottlenose dolphins play in the waves
You can find these dolphins in Plettenburg Bay where they are usually in the waves since the noise of the water hides them from predators who use sound to hunt
Baby Chameleon
The game ranger course not only teaches you about the large African animals, but also the smaller ones, the trees and their uses, birds, insects and reptiles!
Thirsty elephant
Elephants don't drink with their trunks, but use them as "tools" to drink with. This is accomplished by filling the trunk with water and then using it as a hose to pour it into the elephant's mouth.
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.
Moving lions is a skilful task
By law only a registered vet can use high scheduled drugs to immobilise animals. Volunteers learn about the drugs involved, darting techniques, and will administer low schedule drugs. Here volunteers are preparing these lions to be moved.
Volunteers assist vets with lion work
At Phinda volunteers assist with hormonal contraception methods on lions to help manage populations and maintain the balance
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- animal care
- predators
- wildlife rehabilitation
- bush walks
- tracking
- south africa
- game drives
- wildlife research
- veterinary work
- khulula
- tuli
- projects
- veterinary
- moholoholo
- botswana
- phinda
- volunteer diaries
- shimongwe
- wildlife care
- game capture
- mauritius
- study trips
- zingela
- breeding programmes
- rhino
- hanchi
- cheetah
- gap year
- wildlife capture
- park management