Big Five monitoring in South Africa
Live a great life experience, by committing to a game reserve in South Africa.
🐃 South Africa
🐃 Big Five
🐃 From 18 years (16 years accompanied by an adult)
🐃 From €1470 for 2 weeks
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Live a great life experience, by committing to a game reserve in South Africa.
🐃 South Africa
🐃 Big Five
🐃 From 18 years (16 years accompanied by an adult)
🐃 From €1470 for 2 weeks
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Get involved with pets in South Africa. Rescue dogs in rural areas, and help educate children.
🐕 Pets and education
🐕 South Africa
🐕 From 18 years old
🐕 English
🐕 €880 for 2 weeks
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Get involved in protecting vervet monkeys in South Africa, at a pioneering and innovative sanctuary.
🐒 Vervet monkeys
🐒 South Africa
🐒 From 18 years old
🐒 Minimum 4 weeks
🐒 From €900
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Enjoy a unique experience in the South African bush, raising awareness of biodiversity conservation among schoolchildren.
🦁 South Africa
🦁 Wild animals
🦁 Raising awareness
🦁 From €590
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Nature guide training in South Africa. From discovering a profession to graduating.
🛖 From 4 to 52 weeks
🛖 Training leading to certification.
🛖 From age 18.
🛖 From 4490 €.
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Biodiversity in South Africa is exceptionally rich due to the country's wide variety of climates, landscapes and ecosystems, including savannahs, forests, wetlands, deserts and coastal zones. Coastal ecosystems are particularly important for biodiversity, home to marine species such as Cape penguins, fur seals and dolphins.
South Africa is famous for its iconic wild animals, such as the "Big Five ": lion, elephant, rhinoceros, leopard and African buffalo. These animals were traditionally the most sought-after by hunters, but today they are mainly seen as part of safari tourism.
These wild animals can be seen in various safari reserves, national parks and conservation areas across South Africa. National parks such as Kruger National Park, Addo Elephant National Park, Table Mountain National Park and many others offer opportunities to observe African wildlife in its natural habitat. Unfortunately, South Africa's biodiversity faces many threats, including habitat loss due to urbanization and agriculture, poaching (particularly of rhinos and elephants), invasive species and climate change.
To combat these scourges, the country has introduced conservation measures such as the creation of national parks, hunting reserves and private conservation areas. The country is also striving to combat poaching, particularly of rhinos, by setting up security teams and strengthening legal sanctions against the trafficking of wildlife products.
The country offers many opportunities to get involved as an eco-volunteer. In one of the many reserves you could take part in activities such as wildlife monitoring, habitat conservation, environmental education and anti-poaching. Some wildlife rehabilitation centers in South Africa welcome volunteers to help care for injured, sick or orphaned animals. You could be working with a variety of animals, including lions, elephants, rhinos, birds, Vervets monkeys...