Volunteers have the opportunity of: being trained to feed cheetahs and baboons; look after and hand rear baby animals; feedings 4-5 times/day; cleaning of baby animals; night duty (including having baby animals sleeping in your bed with you); building camps, erecting fences around Noah's Ark; assisting with repair and building of other structures on the farm; and training to assist as field guides for daily tours of Noah's Ark.
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Namibia is a technicolor dreamscape. Its major game park, which centers on the Great Etosha Pan, offers an exceptional range and abundance of wildlife and a landscape that could not provide a more striking backdrop for it. The coastal region is one of the world's most captivating desert regions, and in the south lies a canyon second in magnificence only to the Grand Canyon itself.
Daytime heat, rather than rain, is the primary concern for most travellers to Namibia. While temperatures are generally comfortable year round, the warmest season is the period extending from November to March.
Noah's Ark Project is one of the only wildlife orphanages and welfare centers in the work. Ranging from lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dog to meerkat and baboon, more than 200 wild animals have made this project their home. The project takes you 250 kms from Windhoek. The farm is set in the Amaheke Region, which covers 4.9 million hectares of farming land. During the past 30 years this family-run farm has dedicated its time to establish the most suitable and especially secure home possible for neglected or orphaned wild animals. They have succeeded in creating a Noah's Ark in the African Savannah. From the time that people became aware of their dedication, not a single week has passed without a further injured or orphaned animal finding its way to the project.
Five categories of animals have found their way to Noah's Ark. They are problem animals, injured animals, pets, orphaned baby animals, and animals born on Noah's Ark. ...
Staying at remote field camps in one of the world's most spectacular and stark landscapes, you will work in the company of giraffes, gemsbok, springbok, and the livestock of local herders. You will locate elephant herds from vehicles, note their location using GPS technology, document their behavior and group composition, track collared elephants, and collect dung samples for genetic analysis. You may also spend time taking similar data on the region's unusual desert-dwelling giraffes. In Hobatere National Park, you will rotate between observing wildlife at a waterhole from a blind and walking transects with an armed guard in search of elephants. If time allows, a side trip to Etosha National Park may round out your experience.
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Research Mission:
Can elephants and humans coexist in the hyper-arid environment of northwestern Namibia?
Situation Report:
Hoanib and Hoarusib River Catchments, Northwestern Namibia — Running from Etosha National Park in the east to Skeleton Coast National Park in the west, 12 ephemeral rivers form linear oases through this semiarid stretch of the Namib Desert. Populations of elephants have increased in the region, where less than 6 percent of the land is protected as wildlife habitat, spurring more frequent conflicts with humans. A growing system of community-level conservancies is the best chance that wildlife here has for survival in the harsh environment. Communities are learning to view elephants as economic assets, but they need information about their local ecology to manage them effectively and avoid conflicts. You will help Dr. Keith Leggett conduct the first comprehensive investigation of elephant population ecology in this arid region. ...
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