South Africa Monkey Rehab

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Monkey Rehab

Volunteering Experience

Make a real difference

At any time an average of 450 baboons of varying ages

are housed at the centre , so there is lots going on, and

we do need your help!

The majority of the babboons will be released in time,

but there are also a small number of sanctuary cases —

those animals rescued from labs, often too older or in-

jured (physically or mentally) to be rehabilitated for life

back in the wild. Most of the animals that arrive at are

babies, orphaned after their mothers were shot, trap-

ped, poisoned, or otherwise killed, usually by humans.

They need tender love and care.

The main focus is the hands on care of the baby and ju-

venile baboons. The daily tasks of caring for them inclu-

de preparing food and milk, cleaning their play enclosu-

res, playing, supervising, and observing them throug-

hout the day, and preparing blankets and soft toys for

their sleeping cages in the evenings.

This is not a glamorous job! You will get dirty, but it is

very rewarding!

We needs volunteers to help hand-raise baby baboon orphans.

We need you to assist with the rehabilitation of baboons which

spent up to 13 years of their life in a lab-cage and to help animals

which have been rescued from all sorts of circumstances. To be

part of the animals healing; bonding with the baboons in a way

that is incomprehensible to most, watching them grow in confi-

dence, and to witness them becoming wild, sociable animals

again, is an experience with unparalleled rewards; that your will

never forget.

Your tasks

• Hand Rearing Orphan Baby Baboons

• Being a Primate Keeper for Adult Baboons

• Enrichment Programme

• Veterinary Experience

• Behavioural Observations

• Enclosure Maintenance & Design

• Game Counts & Vegetation Surveys

• Tracking

• Alien and Invasive Plant Removal

• Anti-poaching/snare Searches and Removalas

AMAZING LOCATION!

The centre is situated right next to Kruger National Park, the largest National Park in South Africa. There are optional

trips into the park, to see Jessica the hippo, the Panorama Route, and other various animal parks including a reptile park,a

cheetah sanctuary, a chimpanzee rehabilitation centre, a vervet monkeyrescue centre and an elephant sanctuary,among

others...

Accommodation

The accommodation isn’t luxury, but it soon feels

like home! You will stay in a rustic, two story brick

and timber house. There are ground floor is com-

prised of 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, and

open-air veranda/eating area. There is a lounge

with a DVD player and couches, and a balcony

which overlooks the reserve. Bathrooms have hot

water showers and flushing toilets. There are a

maximum number of 4 people per bedroom.

Meals

All food is included (unless you want to buy so-mething specific). Food is purchased in town on-ce a week. Menus are planned and cooked by the volunteers on a rotating schedule of cooking and cleaning.

The centre provides a mainly vegetarian diet. We can accommodate vegetarians, vegans, or anyone with food allergies.

Additional personal food, such as alcohol, choco-lates, sodas, etc, can be additionally purchased on your own accord. A ‘tuck shop’ is available on-site that sells some sweets and sodas. We often have a braai (a traditional South African BBQ) with delicious grilled meats and veggies.

06:30 —Morning bottle and food preparation and clean

07:00 —Walk baby baboons to the nursery & give bottles

07:30 —Clean and feed sanctuary baboons

08:00 —Breakfast

08:30 —Walk the rescue dogs in the reserve

09:00 —Supervisenursery orphans shift

10:00 —Make and give bottles to the baby baboons

11:00 —Break

11:30 —Clean and feed the guinea pigs and porcupine

12:00 —Supervise nursery orphans shift

13:00 —Lunch

14:00 —Bottles for babies

14:30 —Walk the orphan babies & dogs to the river for outside play time

15:00 —Enrichment preparation and giving

15:30 —Walk babies to integration enclosure

16:00 —Cleaning nursery

16:30 —Integrations of nursery babies with older babies

17:00 —Take babies to sleeping room

17:30 —Wildlife spotting at the river

19:00 —Dinner

A Typical Day . . .

Highlights:

Playing and looking after adorable juvenile Baboons and getting involved in a lot of monkey business

If you are wild about animals, and want to learn more there is no better opportunity

Join a team of professionals and other volunteers to learn so-mething new, rewarding and ultimately unforgettable

Bottle feeding orphaned baby baboons, giving you a real sense of excitement and achievement

Staying in an incredible environment, right in the heart of the African Bush this will be a completely mind blowing experien-ce

Loads of satisfaction in knowing that what you are doing is ge-nuinely helping out

Optional Kruger Park Safari way can check out the big five du-ring your time off

When to Join?

Regarding when is best to go this depends on what weather you

like. Sept to Feb (spring/summer) is the rainy season when it will

be extremely hot and humid, with temperatures usually in the

30 / 40 degrees Celsius. In May to — July (winter) will be hot du-

ring the day, 30 and dropping at night to about 20 degrees Celsius,

still nice I would say!

HOW TO JOIN THE SOUTH AFRICA MONKEY REHAB

How to join:

On the programme page you will find a book Now button. We check availability and get back to you asap! There are no set start dates.

Questions:

Email us for all your questions, We will get straight back to you!

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