Wild life conservation Gap Years in Africa

Plans for spending a wildlife conservation gap year

Wildlife conservation gap year programs have continually been a common gap year activity. No matter exactly what your desired destination, anyone can be guaranteed that someplace out there right now there is an unique Wildlife conservation gap year programslonging to provoke you into action. With plenty of options available to gapers nevertheless, it can be difficult to select the best suited project for you.


Decisions decisions... Where to go? Well for wildlife conservation gap year programs the champion is definitely Africa. Africa Gap Year wildlife options are plentiful, as you would expect from a continent blessed with so many game parks and native species. That is all well and good but then you have to decide where in Africa you wish to go, after all it is a large continent with plenty of different projects to keep you entertained in lots of different countries.



It might help to think about the style of the project you want to work on, for instance the great white shark project in South Africa is an interesting if a little intimidating wildlife conservation gap year program that is not for the feint hearted, but really fun for those interested in shark conservation

You may be more into staying on dry land, and trying your hand at training to be a field guide. Field guides are the mainly employed in game farms in Africa, and on various wildlife conservation projects, and are invaluable in conservation work. Field guide programmes are quite expensive, but you get a qualification at the end of the course and can work in the industry afterwards. Not a bad use of your time.


Not every one wants to gain a qualification on their gap year, and this does add extra costs to wildlife conservation gap year programs, so there are other options that are pretty exciting. Like the Namibia wildlife conservation experience programme from Xtreme Gap Year or their South Africa Big 5 conservation project. These get you close to large African animals and are arguably just as exciting as a field guide programme.


If you want in order to have a go with a number of seriously enormous animals, you have to take to the sea, in Mozambique there is a whaleshark conservation project, that is the mommy of all sub aqua adventures. You will need some dive training to under take this particular wildlife conservation gap year program, but the good news is that is included in the price of the course.

Staying on the Marine conservation gap year program theme, a softer way to help with wildlife conservation efforts is to try some diving, especially a Divemaster course. There are plenty of places where you can do a Divemaster course, and different places have different advantages, but the main thing to bear in mind is that as a divemaster you learn alot about marine conservation, and you usually study for a longer period of time that when on a typical gap year conservation project, you assit in wildlife conservation by educating your customers about marine conservation issues when you dive with them.



Many of these wildlife conservation gap year programs are to be had through Xtreme Gap Year, look for them on the world wide web or email info@xtreme-gap.com.