Throughout your stay at your placement in Mashatu you will have the support and guidance of experienced researchers and Mashatu staff. They are part of our greater African Impact support team, and will provide you with competent 24-hour field support and assistance.
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This is raw Africa… This research-‘shadowing’ programme allows you to immerse yourself in the world of experienced and intensive conservation researchers. Join highly experienced elephant and leopard researchers in Botswana’s Northern Tuli Game Reserve, which borders on the Limpopo River in Southern Africa. Mashatu’s 80,000 acres of vast arid lands offers some of Africa’s best game viewing which you will have the opportunity to experience whilst out assisting the researchers.
Be more than a tourist… be a conservationist. Assist experienced researcher in their work within this exclusive wildlife reserve:
Elephants… With Jeanetta Selier, who has been researching the elephant populations in the Mashatu Reserve area for over 6 years, volunteers will learn how to identify the reserve’s resident elephants, and will be supplied with DATA sheets that they will complete whilst observing the various herds. The Central Limpopo Valley elephant population occurs in three different countries namely Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Management of the elephant population is different in the three countries according to their respective government policies. Planning is currently underway for a Tans Frontier Conservation Area in the region.
* Experience some of Africa’s best game viewing, particularly elephant and leopard sightings which are of a quality unique to Mashatu
* Be privy to what goes on with large-scale wildlife conservation, management and research on this exclusive private Reserve
* Increase your knowledge of the African bush and the fascinating wildlife that inhabit Botswana’s vast game areas, and be directly involved in offering support to this noble African conservation and research effort
* Be involved in fascinating DATA collection and monitoring of radio-collared elephants or leopards ...
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