WILDLIFE EXPERIENCE & KGAHA(PANGOLIN) RESEARCH PROJECT

(PRE-CLINICAL YEAR VET STUDENTS)

This project is in the Limpopo province of South Africa near to the Kruger Park and the towns of Hoedspruit and Phalaborwa.

The game farm has antelope, giraffe, zebras, wildebeest, rhinoceros and much other game roaming free which can be seen driving in and out of game farm and also from your accommodation.

Suitable for: Pre-clinical Vet students, zoology students, vet nurses/vet nursing students, animal behaviour students and any other students studying animal related subjects.

WORK

• For two days each week you will work with a Wildlife Vet and shadow him in his daily work.
  • Students will follow the vet on the allocated days, helping with relocations and learning more about wildlife work and conservation.
• Students will experience the African bush from a helicopter and on a Big 5 game drive safari and a River safari, students will learn about the different animals’ behaviour, habitats, survival skills, food etc.
• Students will help with outreach work for the Gravelotte Animal Outreach project in the surrounding community, assisting with dogs and other animals in need of medical care. This is very important work aiding the local population who are often uneducated in how to look after their animals and often very financially poor and don’t have the means to help the animals.
• For the pangolin research, students will be checking all camera traps at active den sites and tracking animals using VHF and Reserve fence patrols. Students will learn all about the Pangolin, their behaviour, how they survive and how and why they are a threatened and trafficked species. This, again, is vital work in educating both students and locals about this much misunderstood animal.

ACCOMMODATION

This is in two-person rooms in lodges on the Game reserve each with its own bathroom.
There are kitchen facilities and lounge areas in the Lodge.

FOOD

This will usually be in the Lodge for breakfast and evening meal.
Lunch will be a packed lunch and taken with you to eat in the daytime.

LAUNDRY AND INTERNET

Laundry will be done several times a week and is included in the cost of your project.  Wi-Fi is available in all rooms at no cost for general emails and facebook.

PROJECT DATES

Please email us at loraine@vetsandwildlife.co.za for availability during the year and telling us which dates/months you are available.

ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE

Students will need to fly into Johannesburg airport usually arriving early SUNDAY morning.  They will then need to take a domestic flight to Hoedspruit airport which is just over one hour’s flying time. They will arrive around midday/2pm and will be collected from the airport by a representative of the project.

Departure will be on the FRIDAY early afternoon from Hoedspruit to Johannesburg and then your international flight should leave Johannesburg no earlier than approximately 7 pm depending on which flight you take from Hoedspruit.  You must allow a minimum of two hours before your international flight, preferably three hours.

WHAT IS INCLUDED 

Accommodation on a game reserve, meals, one helicopter ride, Big 5 game drive safari, River safari, fleece top, supervision and 2 days each week with a wildlife vet, laundry and internet.

WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED

Travel/Medical Insurance (please check the links for Insurance information).
Flights, luxury items (cigarettes, alcohol etc), visas, vaccinations, other excursions on days off.

COSTS 

Two weeks £1550 per person

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