Blog posts in Volunteer Diaries

Doing our bit for Nature Conservation as a Wildlife Monitor

It’s Day 4 of 14 as a Volunteer Wildlife Monitor in iMfolozi Game Reserve After only 5 hours of sleep as a result of a rather unsuccessful lion...

What it’s like to be involved in a Black Rhino dart!

It’s the early afternoon on a very hot day. Everyone is sleeping when the alarm sounds. “Everyone get ready as quickly as you can; we are off...

Wildlife Volunteering: More Than Just Memories

By Neil Miller Not only does a visit to one of Wildlife ACT’s projects offer you the amazing opportunity for life-defining moments while...

The Art of Telemetry & Wildlife Monitoring

The process of tracking priority species using radio telemetry is not linear, even if the signals emanating from the animals’ collars are. When our...

The Early Bird Catches the Wild Dogs!

My fellow wildlife volunteers and I are privileged enough to have the opportunity to help out on two different Wildlife ACT projects. We have been...