African Big 5 and Wildlife Conservation in South Africa

Named GoAbroad's Top Rated Program of 2018, African Impact's Big 5 Wildlife Research Project invites volunteers to join their field guides and research team for the ultimate African safari, enjoying daily drives through South African wildlife reserves to monitor and study the African ‘Big 5’ – the elephant, lion, leopard, rhino, and buffalo. By protecting these endangered and at-risk species, volunteers can help conserve these incredible animals for future generations to see.

On daily game drives in search of the Big 5 and other African wildlife, African Impact will give you the tools and support on how to collect data on these animals, which are then used to identify individual animals using ID kits. Your observation and data collection is essential for providing critical information that will protect them from poaching, starvation, and misinformed culling.

Other volunteer duties include physical conservation work to restore game reserves and ecosystems, as well as learning how to compile and collect data, which is analyzed and used to create reports, maps, and up-to-date profiles of the animals that you observe.

Program Highlights

Have the chance to camp out at our overnight research camp – a truly African experience.

Get to see nocturnal animals in their natural environment, catching often unseen behavior on once-in-a-lifetime night drives.

Join us in tracking the movements and behaviors of herds of elephants and prides of lions

Be part of daily game drives to research Africa’s ‘Big 5’, providing critical information that will protect them from poaching, starvation, and misinformed culling.

Assist our ongoing conservation initiatives, such as removing invasive plant species or anti-poaching sweeps, helping to directly preserve the habitat and lives of wildlife.

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