Assist the Vet with critical conservation activities prioritised by most threatened or at-risk animals. These interventions range from rhino dehorning and satellite tagging, to predator collaring, game capture and elephant translocation.

Your place helps fund the full operation, including covering the costs for the helicopter used to dart the animals, all medicine and equipment involved, satellite collars, vet fees and transportation.

This experience is usually inaccessible to the public. You will be taking part in this intervention and getting hands-on with the procedures and health checks, working alongside the Conservation Pilot, Reserve Management, the Anti-Poaching Unit and a qualified Wildlife Vet. 

Dependent on the reserve, spend the remaining days enjoying the below conservation-based activities:

- community outreach: visit a local school to help judge the Rhino Art Competition where the students get an opportunity to stay on the Game Reserve if they win, visit a traditional Zulu homestead, support a local creche, meet the Grannies of the community who are upcycling plastic bags into hats and bathmats.

- hippo snare boat patrol - take a boat ride along the river to check for snares.

- anti-poaching patrol and K9 unit - walk with the anti-poaching unit to check for snares and signs of poaching.

- Snake Pharm experience - get a glimpse of the ground-breaking research developing powdered anti-venom using plasma from snakes, meet some of the species behind this research.

- Big Five Bush Walk - under the protection of an armed guard, take part in a bush walk amongst the Big Five to notice the beauty of the surrounding nature on foot and inaccessible by vehicle.

- Tracks, Signs and Telemetry - learn how to track animals, understand their behavior and locate them using telemetry and the collars.

- day and night game drives - explore the beauty of the reserve in the day as well as it's nocturnal animals at night.

- Reserve swim and picnic - enjoy a dip in the waterfall on the reserve.

Organised transfer back to the airport