Wildlife ACT has initiated monitoring projects on various wilderness areas and game reserves across Africa, which is home to some of the most diverse and productive wild lands in the world. Yet amid its gallery of wildlife conservation efforts face tremendous challenges. Some of these challenges include: rapid encroachment and fragmentation of natural habitats; poaching; insufficient research and inadequate funding for monitoring and research; coupled with the occurrence of many endangered species. The varying African landscapes make a dramatic backdrop to our conservation initiatives.
Because we work across various wilderness areas and reserves, conservation volunteers and students have the potential to experience the different approaches used to meet each reserve’s unique conservation goals.
Please Note: The opportunity to work on multiple game reserves depends on the length of your stay. If you stay for only 2 weeks you will work on only 1 reserve; but for every additional 2 weeks you stay you will have the chance to experience another project in a different and unique conservation area.
Working in small teams of no more than six volunteers or students per reserve ensures that you will have one-on-one time with the monitors and allow you to gain hands-on experience as well as ample opportunity to broader your knowledge and understanding of African wildlife conservation.
The below map shows the Zululand reserves that we currently work on as well as some where we have worked before or may periodically operate on.
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The Southern Drakensberg Conservation Project is Wildlife ACT’s most recent conservation project focusing on the monitoring of endangered and critically endangered vultures, and various other priority species and protected area boundary conservation work.
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North Island in the Seychelles is a tropical island paradise – a rare sanctuary for those seeking island and marine conservation activities on a gorgeous, unspoiled tropical haven. More importantly, it is a Noah’s Ark: a sanctuary where natural habitats are being rehabilitated.
Manyoni Private Game Reserve (previously known as Zululand Rhino Reserve) lies within the Msunduzi valley in northern Zululand. The area falls under the Mkuze Valley Low-veld vegetation type, varying from open Savanna thorn-veld, bush-veld to riverine woodland, characterised by Acacia and Marula tree species.
Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP) was established in 1895 and is one of the oldest Game Reserves in Africa. The park is 960 km² / 96,000 hectares and contains an immense diversity of fauna and flora.