Home to the super 7: lion, buffalo, elephant, rhino, leopard, African Wild Dog and cheetah
Recently a number of indigenous keystone species, including African Wild Dog, cheetah, lion, elephant, buffalo and White Rhino have been reintroduced to this reserve. Wildlife ACT initiated their monitoring efforts to help assess the progress of these reintroduced species with a focus on the African Wild Dog.
Take part in hands-on wildlife conservation in Zululand Africa
The Wildlife Africa Conservation Team (Wildlife ACT) is a passionate, hands-on team that provides conservation-minded volunteers and students with the opportunity to be part of important endangered wildlife conservation volunteer work in Africa. The work done by Wildlife ACT is conducted within Zululand, South Africa - an area which resounds with the heartbeat of Africa, and which is one of the most diverse and productive wild lands on the planet.
Wildlife ACT is looking for people who want their contribution (in terms of their time and funds) to be effectively utilised in genuine natural resources conservation efforts. If you want to make a real difference while having the African experience of a lifetime, then you are the kind of animal-conservation volunteer we are looking for.
Wildlife Volunteers
Africa has over 400 known endangered animal species. Monitoring & tracking of endangered wildlife is a critical step in the conservation of these species. Many game reserves do not have the capacity to run effective wildlife monitoring and conservation projects. Wildlife ACT provides free monitoring services to these reserves. We can only do it with the help of endangered species volunteer. Wildlife ACT funds these services through student researchers and animal conservation volunteers who contribute for the training and experience gained through spending time on a dedicated monitoring project. Why don't you make a difference by joining us today? Click here.
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Expecting Thanda : Wild dogs mating!
The alpha male was seen mating with the alpha female this last week on a number of occasions. The best sighting was actually of them mating in the car park at the Thanda camp just outside of the volunteer’s rooms!
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Rhino dung, Snatch, Ego’s and Fences
So I know I said we would discuss what we have been up to and why, so here is a slight angle on the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project which Wildlife ACT helped with at the end of last year. A couple of our conservation volunteers were there helping out, the most noticeable volunteer task being that of designated dung collector - which required a hand to be shoved up a tranquilised rhinos’ bums to get dung samples. However, this post has little to do with dirty hands, rhino dung or tracking rhino. One of the components of the project is to encourage neighbours to drop fences to accommodate Black Rhino. A question I wanna throw out there is the following:
Why do so many game reserves still have fences up between one another anyway?
