Worldwide Experience

Worldwide Experience offers you the chance to help make a difference. Why just travel on your Gap Year when you can do something worth while and put something back to this world we take so much from. Placements include Conservation, Community outreach and Adventure programmes. So if your life long ambition is to track wild lions through the African bush or even teach underprivileged children English the Worldwide Experience will have the placement to suit you.

One of the most exciting placements at present is Sanbona Wildlife Reserve situated in South Africa. Gap year travellers and those on a year out, now have the opportunity to be involved in an entirely unique wildlife experience. Visitors to Sanbona can take part in a one-of-a-kind volunteer conservation project, assisting with the protection of the legendary and extremely rare white lion. Sanbona has the only free roaming pride of white lions in the world today.

In November 2004, two white lion were released into the wild for the first time in history on the Sanbona Wildlife Reserve. A male and female white lion were purchased and transported to Sanbona, which is situated in the Little Karoo between Montague and Barrydale.

The pair of white lions produced three cubs - the first white lions for many decades to have been born out of captivity, and the wildlife experts at Sanbona have carefully and scientifically supervised their journey back to the wild. The lions are currently housed in a 4000-hectare satellite reserve within the greater Sanbona Game Reserve. This serves as a temporary home for the lions whilst they are readjusting to their natural habitat. The area is stocked with antelope to encourage the lions to hunt, and the competing breed of normal lion has been removed from the camp to allow their white counterparts free reign of the area.

Volunteers now have the chance to be part of this invaluable project, by assisting the expert team at Sanbona. Conservation volunteers participating in the programme will learn to track and locate the lions, as well as observing their hunting behaviour and studying the learning process as the young cubs pick up feeding habits from their parents. The programme also includes monitoring the perimeter fence and assisting the anti-poaching unit to ensure these precious animals’ safety.

Participants will become an integral part of this carefully orchestrated scientific research programme and will be rewarded with the knowledge that their actions assisted with the ultimate dream of returning an integrated pride to their original homelands of Timbavati.

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