Namibia Noah's Ark Wildlife Volunteers

  Namibia

Windhoek

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks and 9-12 weeks
Dates: 1-2 weeks , 2-4 weeks , 5-8 weeks , 9-12 weeks, programme starts every Friday

Description: Noah's Ark houses a vast number of animals, of many different species. These include the big cats such as cheetahs, lions and leopards, caracals, monkeys and baboons, brown hyenas, bat eared foxes, jackals, wild dogs, zebra, vultures and ostriches, crocodiles, warthogs, meerkats and mongooses... just to name a few. There are many antelope species at the farm together with domestic animals such as dogs, cats, sheep, goats, tortoises and mice: The farm will never turn an animal away and all of these species need your help!

Noah's Ark is always busy. Every day of the year the needs of the animals must be attended to before anything else and often there are not enough hours in the day to achieve all the other things we would like to. This is why the skills of working guests can be used so effectively on the project.

Highlights: During your project, you will be involved in some, if not all of the following activities:

    * Feeding the wild and domestic animals: Feeding is carried out twice a day
    * Caring for, hand-rearing and cleaning any baby animals that may be present at the time
    * Night duty: Caring for baby animals, especially baboons.
    * Cleaning Enclosures: Raking, cleaning waterholes, collecting bones from enclosures etc
    * Assisting with building work and the repair of fences, waterholes and enclosures: This will involve some physical labour
    * Assisting in the veterinary clinic with injured animals and routine care: Qualified veterinary experience is required
    * Assisting field guides with daily guest tours of Noah's Ark
    * Preparation of meat - including handling and preparing fresh meat
    * Handling small stock, i.e. sheep and goats

Cost in US$: from $1669

Experience Required: no

Age Range: over 18

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Other
• Written Application

Real Gap Experience's Mission Statement: We are ambitious for our company, our partners and the communities in which we work. We take our responsibilities seriously - understanding that the development of our business impacts directly on our partners, the communities that we visit and work with and that ultimately, our success is their success too.