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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.
Close encounter with a leopard
At Phinda volunteers head out at night to track the elusive leopard. Once located and darted with a sedative, the volunteers help secure a radio collar and collect data on their condition
Monitoring Bottlenose Dolphins
In the wild, these sleek swimmers can reach speeds of over 18 miles (30 kilometers) an hour.
Volunteers assist with a cheetah darting
Life in the field working alongside an experienced wildlife vet is both unpredictable and challenging
Volunteers assist vets with lion work
At Phinda volunteers assist with hormonal contraception methods on lions to help manage populations and maintain the balance
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.
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.
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.
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
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