African Wildlife Photography & Conservation, South Africa
from £1795 GBP
to £3945 GBP
African Wildlife Photography & Conservation, South Africa
Duration: from 4.00 Weeks to 12.00 Weeks
Countries: South Africa
This project offers volunteers the opportunity to enhance their wildlife photography skills whilst contributing to vital conservation within the reserve. Our constantly growing photo database helps with education initiatives and proceeds go directly back into our core projects. Based at Thanda Private Game Reserve in South Africa.
Our Big 5 Wildlife Photography and Conservation Education project offers exciting exposure to the African bush with both photography and conservation components.
Volunteers will start with an in-depth orientation, followed by an intensive 3 day photography course with a professional photographer to improve on your photography skills.
A further 3 weeks will be spent photographing the phenomenal wildlife in the park, which boasts all of Africa's Big 5 (Lion, Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo and Leopard) and also doing conservation support work in partnership with the Thanda Foundation.
The highlights
- Improve your photography skills in a 3 day intensive course taught by an award winning professional photographer
- Spend many hours in the bush, taking pictures of the Big 5 on game drives
- Learn and photograph smaller species of flora and fauna on bush walks
- Help to create a photo database for awareness and educational purposes
- Help raise awareness in the local community about the importance of conservation
- Get involved in local conservation projects within a World Heritage Site
- Immerse yourself in the local Zulu culture
- Make friends for life
What's included
- A contribution to the Thanda foundation which acts as a conduit for the raising of funds for community development projects as well as for conservation research initiatives.
- Funding educational materials for the schools and tools for conservation work.
- Return transport between Durban Airport and Thanda Game Reserve.
- Orientation program, including a photography course administered by an experienced photographer.
- All daily transfers to and from your projects during your stay.
- Full board and lodging, which includes 3 meals a day at our volunteer house.
- Laundry service during your stay.
- Assistance at your projects by African Impact staff and volunteer coordinators
Where will I sleep?
During your placement you will stay in comfortable twin cabins set in the Game Reserve overlooking a water hole commonly visited by the animals in the park. There is a large communal thatched building with areas to dine, relax, watch the animals or to take a dip in the swimming pool.
The accommodation is staffed with cooks and cleaners and all bed linen is provided. You can spend the evenings sat around a fire under the stunning African sky or chatting on the viewing deck to see what animals visit the area as night falls.
Inclusions
accommodation, food, airport pickup
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African Impact
African Impact is a multi-award winning volunteer travel organisation offering meaningful interactive volunteer projects throughout Africa. Founded in 2004 at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe, we have over 8 years’ experience and having facilitated over 10,000 volunteers in over 12 countries across the continent, making us the largest on-the-ground African specialists in volunteer tourism. We offer a range of conservation and community volunteering and internship programs and also facilitate group and family travel. To us, volunteering is a two-way thing. It’s not just about the hands-on help and skills that volunteers bring; it’s also about what this amazing continent, its people and its wildlife can give those volunteers in return. We want to empower our volunteers to make a difference and have them bring about long lasting positive change on local communities and the physical environments in which we work.
