Volunteer Game Reserve Eastern Cape South Africa Port Elizabeth Wildlife Volunteers Working with wild animals in Africa

	Game Reserve Wildlife Project (Wildlife Project)
	A programme suitable for persons of all ages looking for that something different as part of a gap year or following a life change. This is your chance to contribute to conservation, to make a difference and to return to nature.
	Wildlife Conservation Volunteer

Game Reserve Wildlife Project

Game Reserve offers a programme suitable for persons of all ages looking for that something different as part of a gap year or following a life change. This is your chance to contribute to conservation, to make a difference and to return to nature.

The programme could include:

• Game drives [animal identification and tracking]

• Game capture

• Birding orientation and classification

• Canoeing, boating

• Xhosa culture

• Gardening

• Community service [at underprivileged schools or our Conservation Centre]

• History from Stone Age to more recent Frontier history

• Game management [culling, re-introducing, counts, bomas]

• Land management [burning, grazing patterns, roads, water, and fencing]

• Veterinary work with our resident vet [darting and post-mortems]

• Guided walks

• Medicinal use of plants

• Vegetation biomes

  • Overnight camping and survival techniques

  • Four Star lodge experience

  • Basic first aid

  • Food preparation and wine tasting

  • Emergency vehicle repairs

  • Target shooting

  • Anti-poaching control

  • Crocodile centre

  • Dairy farm

  • Art workshop

  • Pollution clean ups

  • Born Free Foundation

  • Construction of bird hides and walking trails

  • Geology and paleontology

  • Stargazing and basic astronomy

  • Entomology collection

  • Alien vegetation management

A TYPICAL WORKING DAY:

Students are busy from Monday to Friday, the average working day being 8 hours.
Weekends are free for students to either relax at their house or to go sightseeing.
Exciting and interesting things frequently happen on a game reserve and these dynamics will as far as possible be included in the programme.
Students are allocated a qualified game ranger as facilitator and Land Rover game viewer for their sole use for the duration of the programme. The programme is therefore flexible but an average day might include the following:

• Breakfast at 7:30am

• Briefing on the day’s activities at 8.00am

• Pick up packed lunch at the Safari Lodge between 8.00 and 9.00am

• Move through to the game reserve to an allocated area to do vegetation management on the way also tracking predators with telemetry.

• Lunch from around 1.00 to 2.00pm next to the Bushman’s River

• Canoeing on the river until 3.00pm

• Animal monitoring in the afternoon

GENERAL INFORMATION

• The programme lasts 1 to 2 months.

• Accommodation is in the newly renovated Old Railway Station in Paterson.

• It is very comfortable with DSTV, Internet facility and an out door “braai” area.

• Laundry service is offered and the rooms are serviced daily.

• The festive pub next door is a popular gathering place for locals and students.

• Meals are prepared by the Safari Lodge staff.

(Volunteers applying for these projects must arrange their flight to Port Elizabeth, South Africa and transport to the Project at their own cost)

Program Costs

Please note that you can join any project for any length of Time, however we recommend one to two months.

ZAR 4100 per week South African Rands

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