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Monkey Rehab Volunteering Experience
A world of adrenaline travel.
Make a real difference At any time an average of 450 baboons of varying ages are housed at the centre , so there is lots going on, and we do need your help! The majority of the babboons will be released in time, but there are also a small number of sanctuary cases — those animals rescued from labs, often too older or injured (physically or mentally) to be rehabilitated for life back in the wild. Most of the animals that arrive at are babies, orphaned after their mothers were shot, trapped, poisoned, or otherwise killed, usually by humans. They need tender love and care. The main focus is the hands on care of the baby and juvenile baboons. The daily tasks of caring for them include preparing food and milk, cleaning their play enclosures, playing, supervising, and observing them throughout the day, and preparing blankets and soft toys for their sleeping cages in the evenings. This is not a glamorous job! You will get dirty, but it is very rewarding!
We needs volunteers to help hand-raise baby baboon orphans. We need you to assist with the rehabilitation of baboons which spent up to 13 years of their life in a lab-cage and to help animals which have been rescued from all sorts of circumstances. To be part of the animals healing; bonding with the baboons in a way that is incomprehensible to most, watching them grow in confidence, and to witness them becoming wild, sociable animals again, is an experience with unparalleled rewards; that your will never forget.
Your tasks
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Hand Rearing Orphan Baby Baboons
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Being a Primate Keeper for Adult Baboons
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Enrichment Programme
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Veterinary Experience
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Behavioural Observations
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Enclosure Maintenance & Design
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Game Counts & Vegetation Surveys
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Tracking
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Alien and Invasive Plant Removal
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Anti-poaching/snare Searches and Removalas
AMAZING LOCATION!
The centre is situated right next to Kruger National Park, the largest National Park in South Africa. There are optional trips into the park, to see Jessica the hippo, the Panorama Route, and other various animal parks including a reptile park,a cheetah sanctuary, a chimpanzee rehabilitation centre, a vervet monkeyrescue centre and an elephant sanctuary,among others...
Accommodation The accommodation isn’t luxury, but it soon feels like home! You will stay in a rustic, two story brick and timber house. There are ground floor is comprised of 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, and open-air veranda/eating area. There is a lounge with a DVD player and couches, and a balcony which overlooks the reserve. Bathrooms have hot water showers and flushing toilets. There are a maximum number of 4 people per bedroom.
Meals All food is included (unless you want to buy something specific). Food is purchased in town once a week. Menus are planned and cooked by the volunteers on a rotating schedule of cooking and cleaning. The centre provides a mainly vegetarian diet. We can accommodate vegetarians, vegans, or anyone with food allergies. Additional personal food, such as alcohol, chocolates, sodas, etc, can be additionally purchased on your own accord. A ‘tuck shop’ is available onsite that sells some sweets and sodas. We often have a braai (a traditional South African BBQ) with delicious grilled meats and veggies.
06:30 —Morning bottle and food preparation and clean 07:00 —Walk baby baboons to the nursery & give bottles
A Typical Day . . .
07:30 —Clean and feed sanctuary baboons 08:00 —Breakfast 08:30 —Walk the rescue dogs in the reserve 09:00 —Supervisenursery orphans shift 10:00 —Make and give bottles to the baby baboons 11:00 —Break 11:30 —Clean and feed the guinea pigs and porcupine 12:00 —Supervise nursery orphans shift 13:00 —Lunch 14:00 —Bottles for babies 14:30 —Walk the orphan babies & dogs to the river for outside play time 15:00 —Enrichment preparation and giving 15:30 —Walk babies to integration enclosure 16:00 —Cleaning nursery 16:30 —Integrations of nursery babies with older babies 17:00 —Take babies to sleeping room 17:30 —Wildlife spotting at the river 19:00 —Dinner
Highlights:
Playing and looking after adorable juvenile Baboons and getting involved in a lot of monkey business If you are wild about animals, and want to learn more there is no better opportunity Join a team of professionals and other volunteers to learn something new, rewarding and ultimately unforgettable Bottle feeding orphaned baby baboons, giving you a real sense of excitement and achievement Staying in an incredible environment, right in the heart of the African Bush this will be a completely mind blowing experience Loads of satisfaction in knowing that what you are doing is genuinely helping out Optional Kruger Park Safari way can check out the big five during your time off
When to Join? Regarding when is best to go this depends on what weather you like. Sept to Feb (spring/summer) is the rainy season when it will be extremely hot and humid, with temperatures usually in the 30 / 40 degrees Celsius. In May to — July (winter) will be hot during the day, 30 and dropping at night to about 20 degrees Celsius, still nice I would say!
HOW TO JOIN THE SOUTH AFRICA MONKEY REHAB
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