All training will be via practical tuition in the field. The skills you will gain are:

As part of your time on the project you will assist the rangers to develop photo and illustrated identikits of all the monitored species. Most work will be carried out during the day but there are night drives to monitor nocturnal animals like the hyaena.

For researchers and university students, there is the potential to collect data for dissertations and research papers. The monitoring offers a bounty of opportunities for data collection from recording species location and surrounding habitat through to dung collection and DNA analyses. We would also establish a data sharing environment whereby students and researchers would have access to previous information collected, so as to enhance their data set and projects.

Volunteers will share a twin room with bed, mattress and bedding provided. There are separate shared toilets and a living/eating area. The camp has electricity, running warm water and there is an outside space where you can sit by the fire under the stars. Volunteers are responsible for keeping the camp clean and will share the cooking duties in a well-equipped communal kitchen.

The camp accommodation is unfenced, so you can expect visits from antelope, warthog, monkeys and baboons during the day and the occasional hyaena or bush baby at night!

This project is flexible on start dates and there are places available all year round starting on each Tuesday.