Elephants

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

Live in the heart of a Big 5 game reserve and help monitor and research the African Big 5, (leopard, lion, elephant, rhino and buffalo) and assist with vital conservation initiatives like snare sweeping, erosion control and alien plant removal.

Countries: Sri Lanka
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Countries: Nepal, Sri Lanka
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Head to the paradise island of Sri Lanka and explore the beautiful small town of Kegalle. You will help to care for injured or ageing elephants whose owners could no longer afford to look after them and can get involved with all areas of the project.

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Work at one of the most valuable conservation projects in Thailand, dedicated to bringing elephants and their mahouts home to the area and out of the city. Help out with feeding, bathing, grooming and general care!

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.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 8 Weeks

Experience the work that goes on behind the scenes of a successful wildlife safari reserve by working alongside the park ranger and researcher.

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 12 Weeks

£75 discount for volunteers who combine more than one PoD project! Volunteer at the wildlife rescue centre which houses over 300 rescued animals whilst living on temple grounds. This project can easily be combined with our Elephant Care project

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

This volunteer experience takes you to the northwestern regions of the Namib Desert, traditionally known as ‘Damaraland’. This harsh tribal wilderness area, runs parallel to the skeleton coast national park, and is home to a small population of desert-adapted elephants. The first week of the project will see you working with the local subsistence farmers, building protective walls around their water points, or constructing new water points for elephants away from homesteads and farms. The following week is spent assisting the staff of EHRA in following, and monitoring the movements of these elephants on patrol, camping wild and living close to the earth, elephants and people.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 6 Weeks

Bordering the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, you will get involved in vital conservation and wildlife research in the Mara Naboisho Conservancy. Assist wildlife research, development of a local wildlife guiding school for sustainable development and a rural primary school.

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

This is a rare and unique opportunity to gain hands-on veterinary experience with wild animals on a Game Reserve in northern South Africa! This is a fantastic placement with a wide range of situations that you'll deal with, across a few Game Reserves. You'll shadow the vet and you'll learn an unbelievable amount! This placement is the perfect environment for students studying veterinary medicine or an associated career path, or people who have qualified, to gain unusual and rare experience. This project would also provide unqualified animal lovers with an experience you will never forget.

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.

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 3 Weeks

£75 discount for volunteers who combine more than one PoD project! Work hands on with elephants whilst living on temple grounds. This project can easily be combined with our Wildlife Rescue project.

Countries: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Assist with hands-on lion conservation and rehabilitation with the mighty Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, as your backdrop! Over 200,000 lions used to roam the African continent, as recently as 1975. The latest estimates show an 80 – 90% population decline in the last 30 years. The end objective of the Victoria Falls lion project, along with our Antelope Park program, is the reintroduction of the offspring of captive-bred lions into the wild by means of a four-stage process, which you will learn more about during your involvement with the project.

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: 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!