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Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience
The Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience gives you the opportunity to work closely with a wildlife veterinarian. The project is based in some of the most wildlife-rich areas in southern Africa
Nsikazi Wildlifevets Experience
Nsikazi Wildlifevets Experience gives you the opportunity to join a dedicated wildlife veterinary team in South Africa and assist the wildlife vets with clinical work, disease control, veterinary research and development.
Phola African Veterinary Experience
Working with Phola African Veterinary Experience, you will join a resident wildlife veterinarian working at a number of conservation projects, two large game reserves and within the local communities, providing a much awaited free mobile veterinary service. An exciting and inspiring opportunity to combine veterinary work with an integrated approach to predator conservation.
Katie's Wildlife Adventure!
One of our Canadian volunteers recently embarked on a 3 month placement with ACE, spending time at Shimongwe Veterinary Experience with Dr Kriel, and The Whale and Dolphin Research Centre. Her...
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,...
Veterinary volunteer Ruby posts her blogs direct from South Africa!
Follow Ruby Shorrock's placement in South Africa at Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience as she updates us on her experience from SA! Ruby is on the Shimongwe Lowveld Veterinary Experience an...
Shimongwe volunteers Amy and Allison get up close to cheetah!
"Two weeks into our trip, we once again found ourselves on the plains of Phinda. With Wildebeest and Zebra being the main animals in our line of sight, we were all surprised when Chap called out "c...
Shimongwe Kwa-Zulu Vet Students Care for Mkombe and Nyoni
Volunteers at Shimongwe Kwa-Zulu Veterinary Experience have been continuing to care for Mkombe and Nyoni at the base camp, where the wildlife vet holds a zoo license for hand rearing rhino. Nyoni ...
Treating An Elephants Ear Infection at Shimongwe
Volunteers at Shimongwe Kwa-Zulu Veterinary Experience assisted the wildlife veterinarian Dr Masterson treating a tame elephant's ear infection, Rambo who lives at Bayete Zulu. Rambo gave the ointm...
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 ...
Volunteers Save a Cheetah's Life!
ACE volunteers on the Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience had a truly amazing and once in a lifetime experience last week! "We were on our way home from releasing giraffe and zebra we had ca...
Veterinary Work With Rare Sable Antelope and Buffalo, followed by an Emergency Caesarian Operation
Sable antelope are very valuable animals and are therefore actively managed and bred on game farms. There is never a dull moment at Dr Kriel's Shimongwe Limpopo Veterinary Experience as these aspir...
World Cup Celebrating South African Style
Volunteers working at Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience with Dr Masterson, based near Hluhluwe, have got into the World Cup Spirit, with rhino calf feeding taking on a more colourful approac...
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).
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
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