Wildlife Conservation Volunteering Experience
- South Africa
- Limpopo
About Program
Goliath Training has partnered with Rhino Revolution to offer you an incredible volunteering opportunity. Join us to gain first hand experience of the realities of wildlife conservation in South Africa. This volunteering programme is an immersive wildlife conservation experience set against a backdrop of protecting rhinos. Get your hands dirty whilst experiencing the magic of the African Savanna.
Volunteers will contribute to valuable wildlife research and conservation initiatives by participating in data collection, animal tracking and behavioural monitoring on daily game drives and bush walks.
This programme involves a direct contribution to Rhino Conservation with 30% of the programme fee being donated directly to Rhino Revolution to be used in their frontline conservation projects.
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Ethical Impact
We have also partnered with Rhino Revolution because we believe that in order to have long term impact and success, it is vital to secure community engagement and provide key education to the communities that call this incredible country home. Rhino Revolution's education initiatives focus on providing critical education for communities through local educators which is highly effective as well as inspirational for the learners. The local educators also accompany the learners on excursions into wildlife areas that have always bordered their homes but to which they have never had access. Their focus is on creating and inspiring the conservationists of tomorrow.
Goliath Training and Rhino Revolution are fierce believers in transparency and at the end of each year our volunteers receive an update detailing exactly which projects their donations have contributed to, ensuring ethical use of the funds.
Program Highlights
- Large Mammal Monitoring and Data Collection focusing on elephants, lions, brown hyaenas, spotted hyaenas, leopard, cheetah and wild dog
- Reserve Maintenance and Habitat Conservation involving snare removal, habitat restoration, removal of alien plant species, reserve road maintenance and more
- Study Mega-Herbivores and their Environmental Impact studies into the impact that Elephants and Hippo have on the ecosystems around them and how these studies help us to protect rhinos
- Dung Beetle Research study the microfauna responsible for recycling in the bush, with the chance to discover new species
- Wild Rhino Tracking Experience volunteers will be taken on day trips to reserves with wild rhino populations and will get the chance to follow their tracks on foot learning about their daily routines
Program Impact
We have partnered with Rhino Revolution to allow volunteers to make a meaningful contribution to Rhino conservation. 30% of your programme fee will be donated to Rhino Revolution and will be used to support their conservation initiatives.
Key projects include:
- The Ubuntu Project : rhino breeding projects focused on breeding rhinos in the wild; increasing the wild rhino population and creating community ownership
- Rhino Relocations : funding the relocation of rhinos to suitable areas once adequate anti-poaching measures are in place
- Horn Trimmings : Horn trimmings have been shown to have a major reduction on poaching incidents in an area when combined with other anti-poaching measures
- Anti-poaching : assisting with measures on a number of reserves with free-roaming rhino populations. Contributions include supporting security cameras, funding K9 units, and backing community projects.
- Community Education and Engagement : aimed at empowering the local communities that surround wilderness areas and inspiring the conservationists of tomorrow
