Umpalazi Community Wildlife Project
Focus: Animal care, Community, Conservation and Education.
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Project Description
The aim of the APES/Umpalazi: Combined Community & Wildlife Project is to incorporate local community upliftment, including skills training, environmental education and aid work; with the rehabilitation of injured and/or orphaned wildlife for future release and monitoring and will also be a sanctuary for other displaced animals.
he APES /Umpalazi: Community and Wildlife Project is set on a breathtaking 18,000 acres, in the South African bush, Umpalazi is bursting with potential; both as a home and as a future refuge for wildlife.
Both projects border a future Big 5 Game Reserve that will one day compare with Kruger National Park, without being over-commercialized. It is situated approximately 17 kms from an old established town, called Greytown in the midlands of Kwazulu/Natal, yet is secluded amongst the magic of nature.
The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project endeavours to provide skills training for local rural Zulu community members. This is carried out with the help of volunteers who help train local community members, whilst transforming Umpalazi's facilities as a wildlife sanctuary. This is a joint project with the Animal Protection and Environmental Sanctuary (A.P.E.S.) as co-founders, Dawn Magowan and Rodney Pendleton, will be releasing certain wildlife at Umpalazi when possible, and to get volunteers involved with wildlife conservation. APES focuses on the rehabilitation of primates (primarily the South African Vervet Monkey - Cercopithecus aethiops) and other wildlife, and are committed to community upliftment and environmental education.
The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project also carries out snare/trap clearing game counts; bird watching and maintenance of the non- releasable vervet monkeys and others by creating ’feeding stations’ when necessary (to supplement the diet of the nearby wild vervet monkeys due to their continued loss of habitat; this eliminates the need for the primates to steal food, an act which could result in their death at human hands). We also supply information verbal and other to the general public who seek advice in regard to so called vervet monkey problems in the urban areas.
There are also opportunities for volunteers to assist at nearby rural Zulu schools (environmental education etc.), to help local AIDS workers, and to participate in an up-coming project involving more intensive snare/trap clearing in forest plantations, invasive weed removal and other environmental management activities.
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The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project endeavours to provide skills training for local rural Zulu community members. This is carried out with the help of volunteers who help train local community members, whilst transforming Umpalazi's facilities as a wildlife sanctuary. This is a joint project with the Animal Protection and Environmental Sanctuary (A.P.E.S.) as co-founders, Dawn Magowan and Rodney Pendleton, will be releasing certain wildlife at Umpalazi when possible, and to get volunteers involved with wildlife conservation. APES focuses on the rehabilitation of primates (primarily the South African Vervet Monkey - Cercopithecus aethiops) and other wildlife, and are committed to community upliftment and environmental education.
The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project also carries out snare/trap clearing game counts; bird watching and maintenance of the non- releasable vervet monkeys and others by creating 'feeding stations' when necessary (to supplement the diet of the nearby wild vervet monkeys due to their continued loss of habitat; this eliminates the need for the primates to steal food, an act which could result in their death at human hands). We also supply information verbal and other to the general public who seek advice in regard to so called vervet monkey problems in the urban areas.
There are also opportunities for volunteers to assist at nearby rural Zulu schools (environmental education etc.), to help local AIDS workers, and to participate in an up-coming project involving more intensive snare/trap clearing in forest plantations, invasive weed removal and other environmental management activities.
GBP £610 per month.
Accommodation, laundry and meals (excluding snacks/sweets) are provided.
Volunteers must provide for their own transportation to the project site.
Basic but comfortable accommodation. In a house in bunk beds with sheets and blankets. Sleeping bags required for outdoor camping if desired.
No particular skills needed, experience (carpentry, zoologist, veterinarian etc.) appreciated but not necessary, volunteers aged 18 years old and over.
Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project
P.O. Box 443 Greytown 3250 Kwazulu/Natal South Africa.
Tel: +27 033-413 1933
Email: apes1@gom.co.za
Website: www.apes.org.za
Location:Kwazulu/Natal South Africa
Average cost per day:£20
Focus: Animal care, Community, Conservation and Education
Skills needed: Volunteers must be at least 18 years old
