Animals
Volunteering with animals on your gap year is an incredible thing to do, and if you want to work with animals in the future then it will look great on your CV.
There are hundreds of opportunities to volunteer with animals, many you won’t have thought of before. You can rehabilitate Orang-Utans in Borneo to darting lions from a helicopter in South Africa to taking care of tigers in Thailand. The only thing that’s limiting you is your ambition and imagination.
Volunteering with animals is a real ‘hands on’ experience and you’ll be dealing with some of the world’s most endangered species on a daily basis, saving them from extinction.
Whatever your skills or amount of time you have available to offer, there are many animals who will benefit from you volunteering.
Volunteering is an amazing experience, not only for you, but for everyone you work with.
Monkey Rescue
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 1 Weeks to 12 Weeks
£75 discount when you combine with another PoD project! Work hands on with a variety of primate species whilst living on site and being in an ideal location for exploring what South Africa has to offer!
Local community & Wildlife Volunteering South Africa
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 6 Weeks
Volunteer with underprivileged children and help conserve Africa's amazing wildlife! Our unique, all-inclusive programmes give you the opportunity to make a difference, whilst experiencing the beauty South Africa has to offer with our activity filled programmes.
Exciting 2 Week Volunteer and Travel Programs India, Nepal, Thailand and more
Countries:
India,
Thailand
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 2 Weeks
Volunteering Solutions brings some exciting volunteering programs designed especially for people who don't have much time at their hand. The 2 week Specials are a perfect combination of meaningful volunteering and great traveling experience whereby you can volunteer on the weekdays and go on a weekend trip to some of the most popular tourist sites on the weekends on an organized tour.
Hands-on work with endangered wildlife in South Africa
Duration:
from 1 Weeks to 8 Weeks
If you’re a wildlife enthusiast who likes to surf, this is the project for you. You’ll help with hand feeding young animals, preparing food for the animals, general upkeep of the park enclosures and monitoring game on the reserve, with amazing beaches just a few miles away.
Call: 0845 344 7592
South Africa Lion Cub Experience
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 3 Weeks
Spend two incredible weeks in the African wilds; you’ll help to care for cubs, cheetahs, giraffes and hyenas, learn all about the importance of wildlife conservation, and go on safari through Pilanesburg National Centre!
Guatemala Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Countries:
Guatemala
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 6 Weeks
A great chance to assist with the rehabilitation of animals native to Guatemala; you’ll lend a hand with the day to day running of the centre and provide some much needed care for a range of injured and rescued animals.
Gap Wrap China
Countries:
China
Duration:
from 21 Days
Leave London and fly to China - explore the Forbidden City, climb the Great Wall and view the Terracotta Warriors before volunteering with the giant pandas - arrive back in London.
Working with Wildlife Gap Wrap
Countries:
Australia,
South Africa,
Thailand
Duration:
from 42 Days
Depart from London and arrive in Johannesburg for a volunteering placement with endangered African Animals - take your skills to Adelaide, Australia to give care to a range of native wildlife - travel to Thailand and help the endangered Thai Elephant - fly back to London.
Big 5 Conservation
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 1 Months to 3 Months
£75 discount for volunteers who combine more than one PoD project! Experience amazing Big 5 encounters (lion, elephant, leopard, rhino and buffalo). Receive a 1 week bush craft training course and contribute to importnat wildlife conservation research whilst living on a private game reserve.
Wildlife Conservation Volunteering South Africa
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 3 Weeks
Volunteer and help conserve Africa's amazing wildlife! Our unique, all-inclusive programmes give you the opportunity to make a difference, whilst experiencing the beauty South Africa has to offer with our activity filled programmes.
Volunteering at Turtle Bay, vacation with a conscience
Countries: Kenya
This Eco-friendly, multi award winning hotel continues to be a huge support to local organisations and communities around Watamu, through encouraging guests to get involved as well as direct hotel resource and financial assistance. With the perfect blend of all the facilities of this fantastic All Inclusive resort, an exotic East African beach setting and a myriad of volunteering opportunities in the immediate vicinity – Turtle Bay provides the perfect backdrop for a ‘VolunTourist’s’ dream vacation!
South Africa Big 5 Wildlife and Community
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks
Unleash your inner explorer and work closely with lions and elephants on a beautiful Big 5 Game Reserve. You’ll learn about animal tracking and become an expert in conservation management and behavioural monitoring.
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Wildlife Research in South Africa Expedition
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks
Monitor amazing wildlife in the South African bush
China Giant Panda Conservation
Countries:
China
Duration:
from 2 Weeks
Get involved with a unique conservation project and help to save one of the world’s most endangered and fascinating creatures; the Giant Panda. You’ll play a key role in preventing the extinction of this amazing animal.
Wildlife Rescue Centre in Zimbabwe needs volunteers!
Countries:
Zimbabwe
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 6 Months
Skilled and unskilled volunteers are all welcomed at this busy wildlife sanctuary in the heart of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The sanctuary cares for abandoned and sick wildlife and rescues animals reported in danger from farmers or communities - moving them to safe reserves. The aim is to rehabilitate and return them to the wild, from lions and leopards to monkeys, antelope, reptiles and birds. Animals are also studied for educational purposes, zoological study or in the case of endangered species, introduced to breeding programmes. Volunteers roles are so important, to help with general upkeep of the animals, to care for the sick and orphaned and help research and releases. This is a project that benefits animals and the local community alike, and you can be part of that change.
