Wildlife Vet Experience, Limpopo

A collaboration of projects and vets

The Expedition Project works with a number of wildlife vets, endangered species centres, rehabilitation programmes, and community projects to provide an ethical, realistic, holistic and varied opportunity to experience the real world of wildlife veterinary medicine in South Africa.

The Wildlife Vet Experience is designed to give students a realistic learning opportunity of what it is like to be a wildlife vet in South Africa. We do this by including the following:

• Multiple vets with one lead vet
• Multiple reserves and placement environments
• Multiple species and procedure circumstances
• Controlled and uncontrolled environments (eg: reserves and rehabilitation centres)
• Community engagement interaction and understanding (to reduce human wildlife conflict)

Further highlights include:

• Practical clinical EMS and AHEMS sign-offs – Safe place at all times to ask questions and learn from experts
• 24-hour support crew – Support staff to round off your experience and provide you with excellent South African excursions, food and reserve accommodation
• Professional airport pick up and drop off
• Complementing activities and conservation topics
• Delicious South African food
• Fantastic reserve accommodation
• Wildlife Vet Online discounts (up to 100% dependent on group size)

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What you will be doing

Wildlife Vet Shadow and Reserve Management

Focus – Shadow experienced wildlife vets

Summary – Observe/participate in clinical procedures, observe darting/capture techniques and helicopter darting (optional add-on). We aim to include the following – Assist with rehabilitation, Human-wildlife conflict, anti-poaching, and conservation techniques, Husbandry skills – handling and observation. When possible – Husbandry skills – physical exam, reproduction, and routine health care.

Conservation in the Community

Focus  – Wildlife rehabilitation, wildlife orphanage, community education and more.

Summary – Monitoring and care of Cheetah, Wild Dogs, White Rhino, Lion, African Wild Cats, Ground Hornbills, Sable Antelope and more, feeding and assisting with or observing veterinary activities, learning about cheetah breeding, learning about hospital equipment, feeding rhinos, lions and leopard. When possible – Checks of cheetahs, Vaccination of cheetahs, Lime Sulphur treatment of cheetahs, Treatment of antelope for internal and external parasites.

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Topics

Clinical EMS:

• Observe/participate in clinical procedures
• Observe darting/capture techniques
• Helicopter darting (optional add-on)

Husbandry skills:

• Wildlife handling
• Wildlife observation
• Wildlife physical exam
• Wildlife and/or captive routine healthcare

Wildlife conservation:

• Assist with wildlife rehabilitation
• Human-wildlife conflict, anti-poaching, and conservation techniques

Conservation in the community:

• Wildlife education
• Environmental conservation

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