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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.
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.
Buffalo Capture
When animals need to be relocated, a specialised capture team comes into to do the job. This is hands-on and adrenaline fuelled work!
The African Buffalo
The African buffalo is a very robust species. It is up to 1.7 metres high, 3.4 meters long. While not particularly demanding with regard to habitat, they require water daily and therefore depend on perennial sources of water.
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
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.
Impala in the boma
Impala are herded into a boma before they are loaded onto a truck for relocation.
Giraffe capture
Volunteers get up close to giraffes and gain hands-on experience in the unique game capture industry
Rhino capture
M99 is a powerful morphine derivative. Once sedated with M99, a rhino will sink to the ground, allowing the capture team to rope the animal and take blood and other samples.
Volunteers assist with a cheetah darting
Life in the field working alongside an experienced wildlife vet is both unpredictable and challenging
Hands-on capture work
Students at game capture get the opportunity to experience the every day workings of the team, and are afforded the opportunity to get hands on capture experience - as opposed to being only spectators!
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