Carnivore Conservation and Research in Namibia

I stayed at Naankuse for 3 weeks, and 1 week at Neuras.

I think I forgot to breath during that month, it was INCREDIBLE. Lots of animal interaction time. The great projects calls this a cheetah project with hard work 1 week on the farm ( Naankuse ) and 1 week with 'cheetahs'. The title is incredibly misleading as it leads you to believe your going to be cheetahs all day and releasing them left right and center. Going to Neuras its self is amazing, the reason im saying its misleading is you only see the cheetahs ONCE at the end of the week to feed them. For a brief hour or 2.

You learn a lot both on the farm ( Naankuse ) and at Neuras. On the farm you wake up at 6:30, breakfast is from 7-8 then its morning meeting.

You have a group, so you will do different projects every day varied from cleaning cheetah camps, building camps (animals), food prep, cleaning animal enclosures, water hole watch, an animal walk or research. At night you can volunteer for or be volunteered to sleep with an orphaned monkey. Please, be open minded they dont have a mom they only have us to care for them.

So work from 8:30 - 12/12:30
Lunch break 12 - 2
Work 2- 5:30
Supper at 6:00

And then you are off for the rest of the day and can stay by the camp fire as long as you want really, as long as you are quite after 10 and make sure the fire is out.

The staff are VERY friendly and treat you like family. Never be afraid to ask a question, they love to answer them.

So that Saturday you will leave to Neuras ( research and the pride and joy of Naankuse ... the soft release site aka where you meet the other cheetahs not at naankuse ). Its a 4 hour drive to Neuras, with a stop along the way to pee and get snacks.

Neuras has snacks to buy, you do NOT need to stock up.

During your week at neuras you can relax.
There are natural springs to swim in ( clear!! ) and 2 youngster kudu in the bush that hang around for the water.

Neuras is a vineyard ( I helped plant some of the new vines :) ) So I encourage you all to buy the wine!

During that week, you may be asked to help collect trap camera sd cards or check cages. You will create a card board enrichment for the cheetahs to kill later that week and will learn how to use radio collars and gps. You will be sent off to find the collars on trees, or random check points a few times that week because on friday you will have to navigate a canon while using knowledge you learned that week to earn points.

You learn a variety of tracking skills, poo i.ding ect from Matt and Kate that will be drilled into my head forever.

I loveeee naankuse and neuras. It will forever be apart of me ( i ended up calling Naankuse home ) , I will be heading back this year.

I stayed at Naankuse for 3 weeks, and 1 week at Neuras.
I think I forgot to breath during that month, it was INCREDIBLE. Lots of animal interaction time. The great projects calls this a cheetah project with hard work 1 week on the farm ( Naankuse ) and 1 week with 'cheetahs'. The title is incredibly misleading as it leads you to believe your going to be cheetahs all day and releasing them left right and center. Going to Neuras its self is amazing, the reason im saying its misleading is you only see the cheetahs ONCE at the end of the week to feed them. For a brief hour or 2.

You learn a lot both on the farm ( Naankuse ) and at Neuras.
On the farm you wake up at 6:30, breakfast is from 7-8 then its morning meeting.

You have a group, so you will do different projects every day varied from cleaning cheetah camps, building camps (animals), food prep, cleaning animal enclosures, water hole watch, an animal walk or research. At night you can volunteer for or be volunteered to sleep with an orphaned monkey. Please, be open minded they dont have a mom they only have us to care for them.

So work from 8:30 - 12/12:30
Lunch break 12 - 2
Work 2- 5:30
Supper at 6:00

And then you are off for the rest of the day and can stay by the camp fire as long as you want really, as long as you are quite after 10 and make sure the fire is out.

The staff are VERY friendly and treat you like family. Never be afraid to ask a question, they love to answer them.

So that Saturday you will leave to Neuras ( research and the pride and joy of Naankuse ... the soft release site aka where you meet the other cheetahs not at naankuse ). Its a 4 hour drive to Neuras, with a stop along the way to pee and get snacks.

Neuras has snacks to buy, you do NOT need to stock up.

During your week at neuras you can relax.
There are natural springs to swim in ( clear!! ) and 2 youngster kudu in the bush that hang around for the water.

Neuras is a vineyard ( I helped plant some of the new vines :) ) So I encourage you all to buy the wine!

During that week, you may be asked to help collect trap camera sd cards or check cages. You will create a card board enrichment for the cheetahs to kill later that week and will learn how to use radio collars and gps. You will be sent off to find the collars on trees, or random check points a few times that week because on friday you will have to navigate a canon while using knowledge you learned that week to earn points.

You learn a variety of tracking skills, poo i.ding ect from Matt and Kate that will be drilled into my head forever.

I loveeee naankuse and neuras. It will forever be apart of me ( i ended up calling Naankuse home ) , I will be heading back this year.

Critical Feedback:

Are you kidding me, this is perfect. Just change the title.