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Namibia Wildlife Conservation Experience



Join a group and help out at the biggest big cat conservation and wildlife conservation project in the world. This spectacular Namibian wildlife project can use all the help. Based in raw African natural setting you will help taking care for and conserving lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, caracals and (baby) baboons.
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  • Namibia Wildlife Experience!

    Cuddle Cheetah's and hang out with baby baboons!

    Set in a remote and stunning 50,000-acre game reserve.  Sits the largest big cat conservation project in the world. As well as the big cats, there are hundreds of different species that are looked after and taken in. The project run by one of Africas top conservation experts, also provides vital employment opportunities for the local san bushmen people. Each month you get the opportunity to join a group of gappers, who want to experience the real Africa, and learn about (and look after) all kinds of African Wildlife. The animal sancutuarys mission is to take in all kinds of injured or abandoned or orphaned animals, and they need the support of people like you to help care for the animals. The animals certainly benefit, but so will you, experiencing and bonding with African animals every day.

    What you do on placement

    We provide volunteers with the rare and exciting opportunity to work closely with and actively participate in the conservation of African wildlife. The sanctuary currently provides a safe refuge for orphaned and injured wildlife including a number of lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, caracals, baboons and meerkats as well as th really dangerous animals like sheep, goat, chickens and geese (have you ever been chased by a goose? Scary!)



    Your efforts help provide an important resource in caring for and feeding the animals on a daily basis, helping to maintain and develop the sanctuary and becoming surrogate parents to our orphaned baby baboons who need constant care and attention, including sleeping with the volunteers overnight!
     

    Some of your responsibilities will include preparing food for the animals, patrolling carnivore enclosures, walking with the caracals, playtime with the baboons, spending time with cheetahs in their enclosure, game drives, camera trap setting and collecting, participating in veterinary treatment, and manual farm work such as de-bushing and pulling grass in the veld, working in the vegetable garden, building fences etc.

    Amazing African Bush Setting



    This unforgettable gap year programme takes place in a natural savannah paradise with riverine vegetation, lush grass plains and magnificent mountain views. Home to lots of different species, you can help with wildlife conservation efforts, ensuring the welfare  of all the animals through feeding and enclosure patrols.

     

    • Get up close and personal with all kinds of wildlife, from Cheetahs and Lions, to small orphaned monkeys.
    • Set on a huge private game reserve, you will be immersed in the African Bush environment.
    • Joing a group of other conservation volunteers and really help out on a rewarding programme
    • Bush walks with San Bushmen and the animals, feeding, enclosure patrols and babysitting baboons, its all in a days work.
    • Sleep outs under the stars
    • Monitoring wild dogs and tracking Hyenas!
       

    Included

    • Pre departure information
    • Transfers to and from the airport
    • Accommodation
    • Breakfast, lunch and dinner
    • Tea and coffee
    • Arrival orientation
    • Full support and assistance from your programme coordinator throughout the programme

    More information regarding the meals provided:

    Breakfast is self service and includes toast & cereals.
    Lunch is typically cold and varies between sandwiches, soup or filled pancakes and fruit when available.
    Dinner is typically a hot meal or on occasion a braai (barbeque) and typically includes meat, vegetables, bread, pasta and rice.


     

    Excluded

    • All flights
    • Personal travel insurance for the duration of your placement, which should include cover for repatriation
    • E-mail/Internet and telephone calls
    • All items of a personal nature, such as curios, gifts, clothing (work and other)
    • Drinks and snacks, which can be bought from the shop at the farm
    • Extra excursions
    • Optional transfer into Windhoek on a Sunday
    • Optional Lodge nights