Get close to the fastest mammal in the world! Monitor cheetahs and leopards and help restore the plains back to their natural state. You’ll play a vital role in preserving African wildlife for the future.
Get stuck into the demanding but highly rewarding work of caring for sick animals, building enclosures, darting and relocating animals, and helping release them into natural surroundings.
Go back to basics in the Namib Desert as you take part in projects that help elephants and landowners to live together in harmony. You’ll go on a unique elephant patrol and get involved in building projects.
Get hands-on with orphaned and injured animals. The centre cares for big cats, baboons, crocodiles and many others, and is also working to tackle the problem of wild animals attacking farmers’ livestock.
Learn and build on your medical skills at a large practice, before using them at a rural Bushman clinic. There’s also the chance to nurse animals at a wildlife sanctuary – your patients could be baby baboons or tamed cheetahs.
Real Gap Year Experience provides rewarding gap year jobs and volunteer gap year projects, for students, career break and grown-up gappers in many African countries. The best sources of information on Africa and Africa gap year travel ideas are:
