Elephants

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: 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 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: Swaziland
Duration: from 4 Weeks

Get ready for an adventure that gives you the chance to experience Southern Africa’s wonders; set off on safari, spend 5 days in Kruger National Park, take a dip with Whale Sharks and get a taste of Swazi life!

Countries: Malaysia

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: Kenya
Duration: from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Winner of Best Gap Year Company in the Sunday Times "tour op challenge"

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

£75 discount for volunteers who combine more than one PoD project! Work hands on with elephants whilst contributing to a really worthwhile ongoing research project. Live in a beautiful 110 hectare park located on the Garden Route

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: India
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Based in the stunning Indian city of Jaipur you will be working close to the famous Amber Fort, caring for the elephants in the mornings before they start their hard work carrying tourists around at the Fort.

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Support community efforts to reintroduce rescued elephants into their natural habitat

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 3 Weeks to 3 Weeks

Help to care for gentle giants and work side by side with local elephant keepers in Thailand! You’ll feed these amazing creatures, trek through the breathtaking mountains of Chiang Mai, board a bamboo raft and ride an elephant through the jungle. Spend 2 weeks working side by side elephant keepers in Surin province, Thailand. Feeding elephants a hearty breakfast full of leaves and branches will be just one your daily tasks. Then you are off on an action-packed adventure through northern Thailand. You will, board a bamboo raft for some awesome wildlife viewing, ride an elephant through the jungle and then even spend the night in a remote hill tribe village where you will have a chance to really bond with the local community and experience their uniquely peaceful way of life.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 6 Weeks

Most volunteers embark on their projects with the hopes of experiencing real community life in their host countries and to make an impact on their environments. This project does both things in a unique way. It is based in Kenya's finest Safari locations; The Masai Mara, which is home to the gentle Masai Community and it aims to reduce conflict between the people living on the land and the wildlife in the area. Volunteers work to preserve the culture, the land and the vast array of species living together in this region.

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: 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.