Volunteering with African Animals

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

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: 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: Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 6 Months

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.

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

Working at an amazing reserve based in the heart of the South African wilderness, you’ll be able to get hands-on with adorable lion cubs, assist with an innovative research programme and soak up the beautiful scenery.

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

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

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!

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: 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: 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 Months

Hands-on volunteering with South Africa's gentle giants - get to know the elephants as you feed them and monitor their behaviour. Explore the beautiful blue lagoons of the coastline and all that this magnificent country has to offer.

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.

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.