Game Capture and Relocation Experience

Experience the action-packed world of wildlife capture and relocation.

A world full of wild animals, vast landscapes and dramatic pursuits. As a volunteer on our Wildlife Capture Experience, you’ll experience all three of these breathtaking ingredients as you help a skilled team capture and relocate animals in the wild.

South Africa is considered to be the world leader in wildlife capture and translocation. There’s no getting away from the fact this is challenging work that will test your strength and stamina to the limit. You’ll often find yourself travelling large distances, staying in bush camps and lodges, then helping to capture animals that are faster and more powerful than you are.

In other words, if you’re looking for an adventure with some real action, wildlife conservation doesn’t get much more dramatic than this.

Rhino Rating

4 out of 5 rhino rating

Species

Giraffe, zebra, antelope, wildebeest, rhino and many others

Impact

Wildlife management

Country

South Africa

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Highlights

For the adventurous traveller only

This experience is ideal if you’re looking for a new challenge or want to experience wildlife conservation from a different angle.

Learn from the best

The Wildlife Capture Team are world-class experts in the capture and relocation of wildlife. As part of the team, you’ll pick up unique skills and gain insights into the behaviour of wild animals.

Help wildlife conservation in Africa

Capturing and relocating animals is a vital part of both population and habitat management. As a volunteer, you’ll help the team support many different conservation projects and make a lasting difference to Africa’s wildlife.

As a volunteer with the Wildlife Capture Team your role will be very hands-on. Depending on the animals being captured and relocated, you’ll get involved in the following activities:

Practical conservation work

Make sure you arrive ready to get your hands dirty, as you’ll be helping the team with every aspect of wildlife capture and relocation.

Help set up capture ‘bomas’, the canvas enclosures used in the field to catch large herds of animals such as antelope and zebra
Work with the team on all aspects of capture operations and relocating animals
Assist with the darting and sedation of larger animals such as buffalo and rhino
Help to set up camps in the bush during extended capture operations

Rehabilitation, care and husbandry

Sometimes animals are taken into quarantine, either to prevent a disease outbreak or to protect the animal itself from attack. Quarantines can last anywhere from a few weeks to several months.

Help with the husbandry, feeding and daily care of the quarantined wildlife
Assist with disease testing and treatment
Support the team with reintroducing quarantined animals back into the wild

LEARN

As well as gaining hands-on experience (which you can read about under the ‘do’ tab), you’ll also learn about the conservation, biology and behaviour of Africa’s wildlife.

Conservation

The importance of wildlife management in South Africa
Threats to animals such as human-wildlife conflict and rhino poaching

Biology

The effects of sedative drugs on different wildlife species

Behaviour

How animals react to the stress of being captured

COSTS

Our costs include:

Accommodation

Airport Meet & Greet

Transfers

24/7 Support

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Looking for something bespoke?

You can volunteer at more than one project during your time in Africa. Please contact us for a bespoke quote including travel arrangements between locations.

Payment

Costs are subject to change but will be confirmed in writing at the time of booking.

START YOUR ADVENTURE

Taking one of the biggest risks in my life, became one of the best decisions I have ever made. Traveling to Phinda game reserve and the Okavango Delta through African Conservation Experience and meeting some of the most humble down to earth people was a truly fantastic experience.

Words cannot really describe how amazing this place is or how it made me feel, but I hope that this testimony is a good start. Thank you Care for Wild.

We spent our time doing transects in different parts of the reserve recording all the mammals we saw, tracking particular animals if they needed to be checked up on for some reason using telemetry trackers (i.e. waving an aerial around hoping to hear a beep!), or driving around different areas of the reserve just checking what was about/going on and recording all the lions, rhinos, elephants and buffalo we saw.

I highly recommend this to anyone and everyone interested in animals, not just veterinary medicine!

If you want to help conservation efforts, experience working in conservation, learn about animals, visit Africa and work hard, then this is the program for you!

I would say somebody's got to do this experience once in a lifetime, because if you don't you'll never know what you're missing. Once you've experienced it the memories will stop with you for a lifetime. It's just incredible, you can't explain it, you have just got to witness it for yourself.

There is so much I would love to talk about. I don’t even know where to start. There are so many fun things we did and special moments. After about 2.5 weeks, I had the chance to meet a baby black rhino who has to be taken care of different than the other babies.

Game Capture and Relocation Experience

Experience the action-packed world of wildlife capture and relocation.

Rhino Rating

Category

Species

Impact

Country

For the adventurous traveller only

Learn from the best

Help wildlife conservation in Africa

Practical conservation work

Rehabilitation, care and husbandry

Conservation

Biology

Behaviour

Our costs include:

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Looking for something bespoke?

Payment

RELATED PROJECTS

Phinda Wildlife Research Project

Okavango Wilderness Project

Mangetti Wild Dog and Elephant Protection Project

Hanchi Horseback Conservation Experience

What Makes Us Different?

Southern Africa's original conservation travel company

We are qualified zoologists and conservationists

Personal guidance before you book

Join real wildlife conservation projects

Enjoy total peace of mind, with 24/7 in-country support

Empower vital conservation initiatives

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