African

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.

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.

Countries: Zambia
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Join us as a Lion Conservation Volunteer in Livingstone Zambia, a stones throw from the Mighty Zambezi and Victoria Falls, and enjoy a once in a life time experience on the worlds most popular conservation project! As a volunteer on this project, you will get involved in the vital research of the lions’ behaviour, and enjoy hands on volunteer work with lions, on the world’s only significant program for their release into the wild. In 1975 over 200,000 lions used to roam the African continent. Estimates from 2002 put the number of lions between 23,000 and 39,000, representing an 80 to 90% decline in less than 30 years.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 4 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Teach English and monitor dolphins and primates in beautiful Kenya!

Countries: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Get involved with on the ground field research and experience the sights and sounds of Africa's wilderness right outside your tent! Help monitor some of Zimbabwe's most remote and beautiful areas and work amongst one the highest concentrations of elephant in Africa. A magical, off-the-beaten track experience not available anywhere else! If you're a keen photographer, this is definitely the programme for you!

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.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Study African predators by tracking and monitoring lion, cheetah, leopard and hyena in South Africa

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Fasten your seat-belt it’s time for whirlwind 2 weeks in South Africa; take in a Big 5 game reserve, tour the stunning Garden Route, help out with wildlife conservation and work on your surf skills at Jeffrey’s Bay!

Countries: Madagascar
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 4 Weeks to 8 Weeks

Thanda Private Game reserve, is ideally situated in a private game reserve of 14,000 hectares of pristine bush and is home to the Big 5, the extremely rare African Wild Dog and Cheetah. The area is home to the Zulu tribe, a group of people with a very lively and colourful culture. It is within this impressive setting that we offer you the opportunity to improve your photography skills, to photograph the phenomenal wildlife in the area, and to help raise awareness in the local community about the importance of conservation. In the impressive setting of a Private Big 5 Game Reserve, this unique programme offers photography enthusiasts the opportunity to get a different perspective on Africa…

Countries: Ghana, India, Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Our 2 Week Special projects are group trips for 16-19 year olds and run throughout the summer months. If you have time to spare over the summer holidays then why not join us on one of our short programmes designed especially for you.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Working on our Projects Abroad Conservation placement in Kenya offers volunteers the unique chance to work with one of the most endangered giraffe subspecies in the world. You can get involved with tasks such as tracking, observing and creating I.D sheets for the giraffes.

Countries: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Come and enjoy working alongside a community, helping them to develop their own project, a preschool that caters for the orphaned and vulnerable of that community and a skills development centre to empower their caregivers. Teach the children, work with the caregivers, help us build mushroom projects and dig veggie gardens. Become a part of a vibrant community and learn how they live on the smell of an oil rag but live a full life. We also offer you the option of extending your stay and moving to our partner, Imire, where you can enjoy time on a conservation project working with rhinos and elephants at a professional, world class site.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 14 Days to 365 Days

Helping Kenya is offering £20 off the application fee if you mention this listing on gapyear.com.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 16 Days

Take part in Vets Go Wild – as seen on ITV’s Safari Vet School! If you are looking for a hands-on Africa vet experience and need to fulfill a portion of your Extra Mural Study (EMS) requirements, Vets Go Wild have the perfect animal care courses for you, featuring the opportunity to work with vets in South Africa.