Wildlife Conservation

Everybody can expect to be involved in the reserve management tasks. Below is a sample of the conservation projects and activities you may undertake during your time on the reserve:

Wildlife monitoring to ascertain species numbers
Assisting with the current lion and brown hyena projects
Observe elephants for vegetation impact study
Counting and monitoring of jackal numbers
General reserve maintenance
Ecological base line surveys
Predator / prey dynamics
Erosion control and habitat rehabilitation
Participating in anti-poaching and snare patrols
Sleep outs / monitoring in remote areas
Game capture and transportation where applicable
The orientation week will introduce you to the research and monitoring programs and you will learn the correct methods for recording and capturing data. Shumba volunteers will be educated on the main plant and animal species that you will be able to identify on the reserve and taught the basic principles of guiding on the game reserve.

The following weeks will consist of 2 - 3 work sessions a day (approx 3 hours each) where you will be involved in hands-on activities on the reserve. This can range from anti-snare patrols to game capture and from building bomas to alien plant control.
Volunteers stay in a large and spacious converted farm house. Each room is en-suite and sleeps up to a maximum of 4 people. There is a double room available for couples as well. There is ample cupboard space to house all your bush gear and mosquito nets are provided above every bed. The house has electricity so a hot shower or air conditioning is available (to suit the time of year) as well as power points for the essential charging of those over worked camera batteries!

In the main house there is an open plan lounge with sofas and a dining table where the team joins together to eat their evening meal. There is also a large kitchen and library. In the office you can check the schedule for the day, find information on all the reserves wildlife and make your contribution to the data collection.

There are plenty of outside areas as well where you can write your diary, take an afternoon siesta or watch the wild animals stroll by. Regular visitors near to the house include impala herds, baboon, giraffe, rhino, elephant and lions. Surrounded on all borders by the bush and, the garden has an electric fence to keep you safe. Within the large garden there is a splash pool to cool off after a day in the hot, African sun. There is ample space for frisbee, cricket, football and rugby games and a small water hole attracting plenty of bird, insect and amphibian life.

Volunteers even operate their own veggie garden and assist with its up keep so you can have fresh, organic vegetables in your meals.
The project begins on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month and will run all year round, so please call for availability.

2 Weeks £995

4 Weeks £1595

6 Weeks £2295

8 Weeks £2895
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2 Weeks	£995
4 Weeks	£1595
6 Weeks	£2295
8 Weeks	£2895