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Volunteer Activities in Kafue National Park (non-exhaustive)

Research Activities Include:

  • Transect drives for biodiversity studies and wildlife sightings

  • Behavioural Observation Studies (BOS) of elephant orphans

  • Data entry, digitising, and data clean-up

  • Supporting ongoing research projects (wild elephant studies, impact studies, etc.)

  • Setting and monitoring camera traps as part of biodiversity research

Meet our Special Anti-poaching Rangers
Meet the Rangers and learn what they do daily to protect our wildlife. Learn how Rangers are kitted, deployed and about their welfare. Learn how they combat the illegal bush-meat trade

Community Outreach

Activities include:

  • Joining the local radio programme to discuss conservation with the community

  • Supporting Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) mitigation (e.g. helping farmers mark livestock)

  • Assisting at Basanga Youth Centre with conservation education or sports activities

  • Visiting local markets and communities involved in GRI’s outreach initiatives

  • Attending traditional ceremonies and engaging with local leadership

Daily maintenance & general support:

  • Cleaning and maintaining elephant bomas

  • Collecting browse and food for elephants

Food preparation for the elephants

Walks with the elephants:

Personal projects:

We encourage all volunteers to bring their own skills and expertise to their placement. Here are some ways you can contribute:

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Communications department:

  • Assist with regular project updates including blog posts, newsletter entries, keeper’s diary, volunteer blog and adoption Padlet updates etc.

  • Assist with the production of regular Volunteer Programme updates for social media and marketing purposes, including regular updates on the Volunteer Alumni and WhatsApp group.

  • Collaborate on brainstorming and exploring innovative ideas to enhance fundraising and engagement efforts.

  • Contribute your creativity and tech skills to help develop exciting new concepts.

 

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Research Department:

Assist in the research and development of ‘modern’ activities for fundraising (any volunteers with tech background.) These could include:

  • Virtual and augmented reality - help create immersive VR experiences/storytelling to showcase conservation efforts and educate the public.

  • Creating “Geocaching” type experiences

  • Virtual or digital escape rooms

  • Make the past data entry more fun by gamification Wildlife data 'games’: Organise competitions where volunteers compete to digitize data or tag camera trap images

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