Volunteering in Zambia – Species Conservation

Details
You will start your volunteer adventure at Lilayi Elephant Orphanage near Lusaka where you will spend your first seven days.

Here, you and your team members will be involved in biodiversity surveys in Lusaka National Park, vegetation and transect surveys, identifying and tracking wildlife through spoor and scat observations and different community outreach projects.

The second half of your stay will be spent in Kafue National Park, at the programme’s Release Facility. Biodiversity surveys, community outreach projects, learning about our partner’s elephant rehabilitation and release programme, training in elephant behavioural observation studies as well as staff capacity building belong to the typical volunteer tasks.

Please note the hands-off policy: for ethical reasons, only professional employees are allowed direct contact with the elephants.

Accommodation
In Lusaka, you will be accommodated in the project’s Elephant Nursery near Lusaka. Here you will get your own tent and use shared sanitary facilities.

Your second camp is the Kafue Release Facility, about a 45-minute drive from Musa Camp. Here you will also be accommodated in your own little tent, equipped with a mattress and bedding, and use shared sanitary facilities.

As a volunteer you will receive three meals per day which will be prepared as a team. You will have one off-day per week which you can use to explore the surrounding area.

Note: You also have the option of spending your entire time in Lusaka or spending the majority of your three weeks in Kafue, should this be your preference.