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Species Specific Interactive Safaris give guests the opportunity to focus on a species of their choice and get to know it inside out, while still enjoying general game (wildlife) viewing and participating in unusual activities involving your species of choice!
These safaris often start in a controlled environment such as a breeding centre, which allows time to observe characteristics and behaviour from up close while getting to know your favourite wildlife species.
Sometimes there is also the opportunity to participate in an immobilisation procedure during this time, if any routine management procedures need to be carried out.
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The safari then moves to a more remote reserve where we interact with scientists and field researchers to learn more about our chosen species and its adaptations in the particular wildlife sanctuary we are working in. Where possible, guests are afforded the opportunity to participate in "unusual" activities involving your species, such as tracking exercises using tracking equipment (Telemetry), or even tracking collared animals from the air in a 2-seater microlight aircraft!! As always, activities are optional and guests have a choice as to how hands-on they wish to be.
These safaris are normally 7 or 8 days in duration, which allows ample time for general game viewing and relaxation, ensuring that your safari is not limited to one species. We also stay at several lodges during this time giving you a regular change of scenery. Groups are small, and are normally limited to 7 persons on a sharing basis, ensuring a personal experience. In certain instances bigger groups can be accommodated upon request.
Your participation ensures sizeable financial contributions to the conservation bodies we work with, thus contributing directly to the conservation of your chosen species.
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Elephant and Black Rhino Safaris
This safari takes you ‘behind the scenes’, giving you the opportunity to interact with researchers, ecologists, vets and guides while discovering the fantastic world of wildlife in Southern Africa, from a Veterinary perspective. You will also meet with colleagues from across the world, and share with them on a professional and social level.
There are also traditional activities and wildlife viewing included in the programme, thus making the programme ideal for first time visitors and non-vet partners too. You will come face to face with the magnificent cheetah, the Cape Hunting dog, the African elephant and much more.
Not only will you have a fantastic time but your participation also means donations to the various research projects, thus you are helping save endangered species.
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Guided throughout by Dr Peter Brothers, Wildlife Veterinarian and registered Tourist Guide, Dr William Fowlds, wildlife veterinarian, in the Eastern Cape, researchers, and various local guides, you will be given a unique and rare insight into the world of wildlife in Southern Africa.
Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime safari, while helping to conserve Africa’s wildlife through your participation... |
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The Big Cat Safari
This course is intended to give Veterinary students the opportunity to gain some technical knowledge involved in wildlife veterinary practice in South Africa and the immobilisation of wildlife, and uses theory and practical to achieve this aim.
Students will receive lectures on a wide variety of topics, and will also be given practical demonstrations and opportunities to practice certain skills.
While the topics are intended to be very practical, this course will not turn a Veterinary student into a “Wildlife Vet”, and this is not the intention.
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The knowledge and experience gained during this course should highlight some of the issues facing Wildlife Vets and Conservation in Southern Africa, and the knowledge needed to successfully work in this industry. However, this knowledge and the broad basics will naturally serve as a sound base for future wildlife work anywhere in the world. |
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