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City/State: Big 5 Game Reserves |
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Country: SOUTH AFRICA
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| Worldwide Experience |
The Oak Suite
Guardian House
Borough Road
Surrey
UNITED KINGDOM
GU7 2AE
Phone: +44 (0)1483 860 560
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Program description: |
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Worldwide Experience offers self funding volunteers a unique conservation opportunity to work on some of Southern Africa's premier Big 5 game reserves. Nestled in the bio-diverse Eastern Cape of South Africa, our game reserves offer volunteers the opportunity to get behind-the-scenes in South Africa's most famous game reserves.
A conservation placement is the ultimate life changing and rewarding experience and only very seldom do we get the chance to give something back and make a difference to the future of our natural environment. Through volunteering with Worldwide Experience, you can help to conserve what man is fast destroying; our own environment.
All our projects are based around the needs of the surrounding community and environment so you're really making a difference through your work. For this reason, the work you get involved with cannot be guaranteed, but you should get involved with animal tracking, animal ID, general reserve maintenance (such as fence and alien plant removal), wilderness walks and bush camp outs, and rehabilitaiton work.
Placements are self-funding, please see our website for rates...
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General program information: |
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Program open to: Everyone
Age range: 17+
Travel to site: Independent Travel
Is opportunity more independant or group orientated: Independant
No. in group: 10
Living arrangements on the program: Varies
How long does the program last?: 1-3 Months
What are the dates of this program: Course dates are flexible and run all year round.
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Benefits and advantages of the program: |
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Volunteers will have the opportunity to feed rehabilitated wildlife, spend time with veterinary surgeons, monitor and track wildlide, help in the maintenance of game reserves and make a difference in the surrounding community.
Our experiences are VERY hands-on.
Worldwide Experience strives to conserve what man is fast destroying – our very own environment. We have sourced several Southern African reserves with similar objectives and aims to support their initiative through the recruitment of students from around the world.
We have close links with several front running reserves throughout Southern Africa. The standards at the selected reserves are set by us so as to maintain a degree of uniformity, thus maintaining a high degree of education, training, learning and general hands on experience while fulfilling the core objective - conservation.
All programmes have been formulated with the assistance of the Eco Africa Experience team, to give you the best possible experience in Africa. The staff on the selected reserves are specifically trained to impart their skills and experience as specialists in their field. They follow the designed course content whilst adapting it to both the volunteer and the reserve environment.
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Cost or price of this program: |
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From £1699 for 4 weeks, including all food, accommodation and transfers between the airport and reserve.
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Application process Involves: |
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Online or postal application form, then telephone interview.
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