CAREER EXPLORATION IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION WITH FOCUS ON VETERINARY SCIENCE & EARTH STUDIES

On this program, you will experience life in a quintessential South African reserve and learn about conservation on the front lines. You might spot Africa’s “Big Five” in the region — lions, leopards, elephants, Cape buffalo and rhinos. By night, you’ll live at a rustic Home Base on the reserve, listening to traditional stories and learning about tribal culture. By day, shadow wildlife conservationists in the South African bush, go on game drives to observe animals and learn about sustainably preserving the region’s endangered species. Your animal conservation efforts will be hands-on and incredibly immersive: learning tracks and signs to identify wildlife and assisting an anti-poaching unit with wildlife predator monitoring.

Interns will also volunteer to support conservation projects at the KwaZulu-Natal Crocodile Center, head to the sea to watch humpback whales migrate north to tropical waters for the winter and observe a K9 anti-rhino poaching dog unit patrol service. Students will spend the remaining time at two of Africa’s remarkable wetland and coastal sites: St Lucia Wetlands Park and Cape Vidal Game Reserve.