Self-drive: From Mahikeng to Working With Wildlife
Today you will drive around 4 hours from your hotel in Mahikeng to Working With Wildlife.
The drive from Mahikeng to Working With Wildlife takes you through the North West and Northern Cape provinces, offering a transition from savannah to semi-desert landscapes. Initially departing Mahikeng, you'll encounter rural scenery with farmlands and occasional villages. As you proceed into the Northern Cape, the landscape gradually transforms into semi-arid terrain, characterized by sparse vegetation and vast expanses of open land. Along the route, you may encounter wildlife such as antelope, birds of prey, and possibly even glimpses of larger mammals. The journey offers stunning views of the expansive Kalahari landscape, with its red sands and distinctive vegetation.
6 Day Working With Wildlife Project
A once in a lifetime conservation experience, Working with Wildlife is located in one of the most remote parts of South Africa and on the border of South Africa and Botswana. The reserve covers an area of 240,000 acres and wildlife does include the highly sought after “Big Five” although the focus of a stay here is the opportunity for the guests to be involved in an unique conservation experience in the Kalahari. The reserve is not open to the general public and the camp has full traversing rights with no time limits. The remoteness of the reserve does also mean that the night sky offers incredible star-gazing.
Day 1: Arrival Day
Arrive at the camp and check in. This afternoon you can start to join the camp's conservation activities.
Dinner included.
Day 2-5: On Safari: Kalahari & Surrounds and conservation activities
Activities are dependent on the needs of the reserve and the conservation efforts required at specific times but could include wildlife research such as monitoring population dynamics and predator/prey relations of African Wild Dogs, Cheetahs and Lions, placing and monitoring camera traps to conduct scientific research, nocturnal monitoring, and animal identification, game surveys to monitor the distribution and sex and age ratios in all the reserve’s wildlife populations or anti-poaching efforts such as assisting experienced rangers with their daily patrols by identifying signs of poaching and collecting valuable data. Guests will also be exposed to educational opportunities such as learning from qualified and experienced personnel about the reserve’s ecology, biology and interesting animal behaviours, as well as the importance of habitat restoration and nature conservation for future generations, learning about the ongoing rhino poaching crisis from experts in the anti-poaching field, the methods that are currently employed to combat poaching, and the importance of saving the species and perhaps learn how to track animals with radio antenna and GPS as well as conventional methods like spoor, signs of movements, and even the birds that can indicate the presence of a specific animal!
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner included.
Day 3: Departure Day
After breakfast, depart Working With Wildlife reserve.
Breakfast included.
