African

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: 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: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Weeks

Want to get up close to mini kings of the jungle? Working at a lion conservation centre in South Africa you can care for, feed and even take a dip with lion cubs and explore the amazing Pilanesburg National Park!

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: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Antelope Park in Zimbabwe is where it all began, and volunteers have the opportunity to work at the heart of our ground-breaking Lion Rehabilitation Project, volunteering on the worlds most popular conservation project.

Countries: Mozambique
Duration: from 7 Days to 4 Weeks

Njiri Eco Camp’s aim is to combine conservation with a great safari experience. Mozambique’s wildlife has suffered due to the 17yr civil war but now the country is at peace it opens up unique conservation opportunities. To help us repair the damage done to the reserve and experience Mozambique’s beautiful scenery and wildlife join us at Njiri Eco Camp as a Volunteer or for one of our Adventure and Conservation Safaris. As well as game drives, bush walks and sun downers you will get the opportunity to learn bush skills such as tracking, help to monitor the game numbers, aid in anti-poaching and get involved with our Outreach programme, combining conservation with the local community.

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: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks

You’ll make a difference in two key areas as a volunteer in Zimbabwe; do your bit for wildlife conservation with vital lion rehabilitation work and get involved in a range of community development initiatives.

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: 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 2 Weeks to 8 Weeks

An amazing opportunity to contribute to the protection and conservation of the African elephant and endangered Black Rhino. Experience these amazing animals closer than you ever thought possible and get a unique behind the scenes look at day to day life in an African game park.

Countries: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 20 Weeks

An incredible opportunity to live in one of Africa's true wilderness areas and really contribute to endangered species conservation, focusing on the African Wild Dog and Black Rhino. You will support the existing work being done by the Conservancy to help preserve vulnerable species and restore the natural environment.

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: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Shamwari Game Reserve offers the ultimate placement for conservation volunteers in a malaria-free environment. Shamwari means ‘my friend’ and this reserve is the southernmost premier big 5 game reserve in South Africa, boasting a huge variety of game over a vast 24,000 hectares. At Shamwari game reserve we can promise you the experience of a lifetime! You will assist the award-winning conservation team. If exposure to the African wildlife is your dream – perhaps even working with lions - then gap year voluntary work at the Shamwari Game Reserve will exceed your wildest expectations

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.