Volunteer Activities in Lusaka National Park (non-exhaustive)
Food preparation for the elephants
Food preparation for the primates
Maintenance, cleaning and preparing the boma and viewing hide.
WDC Discovery Day:
Take a conservation class with the children in the Wildlife Discovery Centre.
Research:
Volunteers support our research through:
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Assisting with elephant health checks and growth rate data collection
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Data entry, digitising, and data clean-up
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Behavioural data collection (elephants & primates)
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Mammal transect drives
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Vegetation quadrats
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Creating video ethograms (= video clip examples of various behaviours for elephants & primates)
Wider Park Management Support:
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Removing invasive plant species and promoting native flora
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Habitat management (selective bush clearing)
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Snare sweeps
Personal projects:
We encourage all volunteers to bring their own skills and expertise to their placement. Here are some ways you can contribute:
Communications department:
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Assist with regular project updates including blog posts, newsletter entries, keeper’s diary, volunteer blog and adoption Padlet updates etc.
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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.
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Collaborate on brainstorming and exploring innovative ideas to enhance fundraising and engagement efforts.
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Contribute your creativity and tech skills to help develop exciting new concepts.
Research Department:
Assist in the research and development of ‘modern’ activities for fundraising (any volunteers with tech background.) These could include:
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Virtual and augmented reality - help create immersive VR experiences/storytelling to showcase conservation efforts and educate the public.
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Creating “Geocaching” type experiences
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Virtual or digital escape rooms
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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
