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CONSERVATION, WILDLIFE REHABILITATION, AND ANIMAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

Your conservation adventure starts here! Play a meaningful role in helping to preserve threatened and endangered species. There is so much you can do to help! Work hands-on with lion cubs in Zambia, or Orang Utans in Malaysia, or help rescue and rehabilitate orphaned and abused animals. Worthwhile and satisfying, sustainable conservation!

Travellers is a leading specialist in voluntary conservation projects and will give you lots of help, guidance and advice when arranging your programme. We’re here to help you. You don't need any qualifications to volunteer and everyone from 17+ is welcome on our projects. Here is a list of our countries and the conservation projects you can choose from.

For MARINE Projects, please click here.

Make a difference ... get involved!

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Projects Countries Apply Now

AFRICA ASIA

MAURITIUS

  • Marine Conservation with Dolphins and Whales: Monitor wild Dolphin and Whale populations along the coast of Mauritius and make a vital contribution to the work of a local NGO. This fantastic research opportunity would suit anyone with a love of the outdoors and a passion for marine life.  

SOUTH AFRICA

  • Wildlife Rehabilitation (and more): Up close and personal with Vervet Monkeys and other types of animals, most of whom have been injured or abandoned. You'll help with feeding and any other duties required around the Centre.

  • Wildlife Sanctuary and Game Park: Hands-on work with injured or abandoned animals of all types. This is a very popular project with all our volunteers and it can be combined with any other project in South Africa.

  • Zululand Wildlife & Game Reserve Conservation Expedition: Here you have the opportunity to work on three very different Game Reserves, each with their own unique beauty and attraction. You'll gain a wealth of conservation knowledge and experience working under qualified conservation experts and on location out in the bush on a daily basis. You'll definitely experience Africa in a way that no mere tourist can!

  • MARINE PROJECTS - click to go our list of Marine Projects in South Africa.

  • Endangered Species: This project has now been successfully concluded. You can read more about the results of the project.

ZAMBIA

  • Walking With Lions - the Lion Breeding Project in Livingstone, where you will get the chance to have Extremely close encounters with lions! The location is close close to the famous Victoria Falls. This is a unique project where you can take lions for a walk through a Game Reserve - an unbelievable experience!

  • Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Orphanage In Zambia: Witness incredible animal relationships in close knit chimpanzee family structure, and be part of the day to day care of the orphanage inhabitants. This project has over 100 chimpanzees and other animals that you will live in close contact with. They also have bush babies, monkeys and squirrels.

ZIMBABWE

CAMBODIA

  • COMING SOON! From the Ocean to the Jungle to the Villages - your work on this project will be very varied, focussing on diving related marine surveys and salvage, to jungle surveys, to environment awareness community work. For further details, please contact jen@travellersworldwide.com 

CHINA

  • Giant Panda Experience Work with one of the world's most endangered species at a Panda Conservation Base in beautiful China! Although not strictly a conservation project, you'll have a rare opportunity to learn about and work with Pandas.

MALAYSIA

SRI LANKA

  • Elephant Orphanage: This famous Orphanage provides care and shelter for around 80 elephants that are too old to work or have been found abandoned. This is an elephant experience rather than conservation.

  • Colombo Zoo: Help to improve the quality of life of the animals in the Zoo by helping with enclosure enrichment..

  • Elephant and Wildlife Conservation in Wasgamuwa National Park: Help conserve Elephants and other wildlife - and there's lots more involved in this project!

AUSTRALASIA SOUTH AMERICA

AUSTRALIA

PERU

  • Amazon Rainforest.: Live and work in the most awesome jungle in the world - the AMAZON! This is a multi-activity project, where you'll benefit from the training components and actively assist in the environmental monitoring study at multiple locations. As you stay longer, you will take on increasing levels of data collection and project management responsibilities. Some adventure activities are also included.

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ABOUT CONSERVATION WORK

Play a meaningful role in helping to preserve threatened and endangered species.

You don’t need any qualifications, just a love of animals and nature. You can help in many, many ways, for example, by making a hammock for a monkey in captivity or sitting in a hide in the bush observing the behaviours of the elusive leopard. Your work might involve washing an orphaned elephant under palm trees or walking the African plains with baby lion cubs to help prepare them for eventual release.

With around 25 very different conservation projects around the world, and over 11 years of experience, Travellers can help you to make a direct and immediate difference. Our projects are situated around Africa, Asia and South America, and the variety of projects is vast. You may want to work hands-on in rehabilitation work such as with Orang-Utans in Borneo’s rainforests, or you may want to learn the survival skills of the bush and get involved in important conservation research. You might instead want to don some flippers and head under the sea to explore precious marine life species.

The choice is the hardest bit! You can work with monkeys, elephants, horses, apes, crocodiles, frogs, plants, dolphins, the great white shark, leopards, rhino, tortoise, coral, reptiles, birds, fish and, well, pretty much any species you’re interested in - exciting stuff!!

The type of work varies depending on the project and country you choose. We have projects which include aspects of the following: interaction & play, field research, safaris, washing, feeding, preparing food, observation, night watches, creative psychological stimulation for the animals, cleaning duties, enrichment projects, releases into the wild, diving, trekking, darting, learning, educating, photographing, building, painting and much more depending on the requirements of the project.

Whatever you find yourself doing, it will be worthwhile and satisfying. The consequence of your contribution, the bond you develop with nature and the memories that you’ll take home with you, are immeasurable and they last a lifetime. Make a difference - get involved!

CONSERVATION MATTERS… NOW!

Travellers appreciate the urgent need to educate the people of today about our world’s endangered species and eco-systems. The people who need educating on the importance of conservation are consumers in the Western world, the local people who live close to wildlife, and local authorities and councils who have the power to protect their immediate environment but not the knowledge of how sacred our endangered species are.

We are actively involved in many important conservation initiatives around the world. We believe that protecting our animal species and our planet is of vital necessity. Taking action and increasing awareness now is necessary for our future generations. If action is not taken immediately, the repercussions in a generation or two will be cause for global emergency. By then, however, all of nature’s precious resources will have been used up, destroyed by the fundamental problem of human greed and a critical lack of awareness.

According to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), 15,589 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction and many ecosystems – wetlands, forests – are being degraded and destroyed…

The World Conservation Union, along with its affiliates, is vigorously promoting scientific research into eco-systems. What is needed urgently, however, is to spread awareness and to educate the world. There is no better way to do this than to send motivated and conscientious people like YOU out into the wilderness to absorb and appreciate nature at its most glorious, and at it’s most vulnerable. Travellers promotes and enables first-hand experience and education of conservation issues for everyone and anyone who cares. Creating interest and an awareness of conservation amongst people is critical… as critical as the hands on help in research, rehabilitation and animal welfare development that you physically provide on these placements.

TRAVELLERS' CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CONSERVATION:

  • Identifying worthwhile conservation work around the world that requires hands on assistance and/or funding assistance

  • Implementing conservation projects around the world

  • Continuously monitoring the work to ensure that it provides adequate support, structure, comfort and satisfaction for the volunteers

  • Continuously seeking to ensure future development of a worthwhile program.

  • Providing structured and safe conservation projects for inexperienced volunteers with an interest in conservation

  • Marketing these opportunities to make people aware of how they can help despite time or money restrictions

  • Recruiting self-funding volunteers from around the world

  • Providing and arranging the opportunity of short-term work in established conservation roles for paying volunteers (meaning no cost at all to the projects, because their funds are limited and need to be retained for purely conservation aims)

  • Ensuring valuable, worthwhile work that develops the volunteer, the animals and the local community (a win-win-win situation!)

  • The Phil Perkes Trust, established to honour Phil Perkes', Travellers' Co-Founder whose  wish was to help the less advantaged, provides valuable funding towards meaningful projects in conservation for each and every volunteer that does a Travellers’ placement.

Just some of Travellers donations to worthy conservation causes (see also Making a Difference) include:

  • Supporting the staff and the work of the Endangered Species project in South Africa during a financially troubled time in order to continue its valuable research into endangered species in Africa and allowing volunteers to continue to help with this crucial work. - It’s the little things that matter.

  • Continuous donations per volunteer to Sepilok’s Orang-Utan Rehabilitation Centre in Borneo, plus additional donations to the Orang-Utan Appeal

  • Enabling research and education by sponsoring the Director + team of Sri Lanka’s Zoo to attend an international symposium in the UK on zoological enrichment.

  • Funding the medical care programme for all the staff at Colombo Zoo.

If you care about Conservation, if you would like to learn more or leave your mark on the earth...

Make a Difference... Get involved!

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