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Primate Keeping Assistant

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2 - 12 semanas  ·  Edad 18 - 50+

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  Verificado por Volunteer World
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Puntos Relevantes

  • Experience the wonders of multiple species of primates cohabiting in a stunning indigenous forest where they roam freely.
  • Contribute your time and skills to a truly ethical sanctuary where the welfare of the animals always comes first
  • Live in a stunning and largely undiscovered part of South Africa that enjoys year-round warm weather
  • Make memories that will last a lifetime, both in the forest and on leisure day excursions
  • Visit Big 5 game reserves, world heritage sites, glorious beaches, sites of historical importance and majestic mountains

Especialmente adecuado para

Edad 18+
Solteros y solteras
Parejas
Grupos
50+

Sobre el programa

Volunteers work alongside our animal keepers ensuring their needs are met, monitoring their general health and wellbeing and completing any work needed in the forest.

The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary is a sanctuary for rescued exotic primates.  The focus of our primate keeping volunteer programme is to work alongside the primate keepers to ensure the health and wellbeing of our rescued primates (lemurs, monkeys and gibbon).

In your first few days working with ...

Sobre el programa

The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary is a sanctuary for rescued exotic primates.  The focus of our primate keeping volunteer programme is to work alongside the primate keepers to ensure the health and wellbeing of our rescued primates (lemurs, monkeys and gibbon).

In your first few days working with our primate keeping team, you'll think all the monkeys look and act the same.  Over time, you'll experience the joy that is starting to observe their different personalities and characteristics.  Our primate keeping team are responsible for all the food for the primates, for cleaning the feeding platforms and water bowls and distributing the food.  They will monitor things like the weather and what is growing naturally in the forest in deciding which food and the quantities thereof to prepare for each day.

Our primate keeping team are also responsible for monitoring the free-roaming primates for any changes in behaviour, illnesses or injuries and taking the appropriate action.
As the primates are all free-roaming, you won't be spending your days shovelling up monkey poop.  However, we do have a pre-release area, where any new arrivals are de-humanised and rehabilitated before they can be released into the wider forest.  These enclosures do need to be kept clean, even if there are no primates in them, so there may be some occasional cleaning of enclosures.
Finally, our primate keepers are responsible for ensuring a safe and healthy environment for our primates. This involves activities such as checking the perimeter fence, making any repairs and removing alien vegetation.

Volunteers do not need to bring any special equipment with them.  Volunteers will be provided with two branded golf shirts and a branded fleece to wear as uniform during their stay.  Volunteers will need to bring their own pants/trousers.  Accepted uniform colours are brown, grey, green or khaki/stone.  Waterproof shoes/boots or wellington boots/gum boots are also recommended.

The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary Volunteer Rules

We want you to have a fantastic and fulfilling time whilst volunteering with us but we also want to ensure that you, our staff and our resident primates remain safe. The following rules have been put in place to ensure safety for all and to maintain the high standards of our sanctuaries. Please read them carefully and adhere to them throughout your stay. 

  1. When reporting for duty, all volunteers must be dressed in the issued uniform; shorts/skirts must be of a decent length, no “hotpants”.
  2. Report on duty clean and sober. 
  3. Follow the instructions of your assigned supervisor/mentor. 
  4. Never attempt to touch or interact with (this includes teasing or encouraging a reaction from) any of the resident primates or wild animals in our forest. 
  5. Do not hand-feed any of the animals. 
  6. Do not take ‘selfies’ with any animals or take photos with animals that give the impression that you are interacting with the animal(s). Posting of any such photos on social media is a strict contravention of our sanctuary rules. 
  7. Volunteers are not permitted to enter the forest alone. 
  8. If volunteers are invited to be present and/or to assist during a veterinary visit, veterinary instructions must be followed at all times. 
  9. Volunteers are not allowed to drive any company vehicles or work with heavy machinery or power tools. 
  10. Volunteers are not permitted to use the sanctuary telephones or computer equipment unless requested or approved to do so by a member of the management team. 
  11. Personal mobile phones must be kept out of sight (e.g. in a pocket) and left on silent or vibrate. Volunteers are requested not to use their mobile phones in public areas. 
  12. Smoking inside the sanctuary areas, in (or on) any vehicle and anywhere in view of visitors, is strictly forbidden. Please use the designated smoking areas only. 
NOTE: Failure to follow the rules regarding touching, hand-feeding and/or interacting with the animals in our care will result in the volunteer being instructed to leave the Sanctuary, our Volunteer Programme and the Volunteer House immediately



Día típico

There's really no such thing as a typical day, but the following paragraphs give a broad overview of what a day might look like:


7.30am                          Leave the volunteer house

8.00am - 8.15am          Prepare the food buckets, cleaning equipment and water containers for ...

Día típico

There's really no such thing as a typical day, but the following paragraphs give a broad overview of what a day might look like:


7.30am                          Leave the volunteer house

8.00am - 8.15am          Prepare the food buckets, cleaning equipment and water containers for the forest

8.15am - 10.0am       Feeding at the forest - cleaning feeding platforms and water bowls and distributing the fresh food and water.  Clean pre-release enclosures. Return to the 'monkey kitchen' area and clean all the used buckets ready for the next day.

10.0am - 10.30am    Morning tea break

10.30am - 1.30pm      The activities at this time of the day vary depending on what is required on any given day.  You might be removing alien vegetation, doing gardening work, helping with small maintenance jobs or helping with food preparation for the next day.

1.30pm - 2.00pm        Afternoon lunch break

2.00pm - 4.00pm        Back to the forest to distribute the afternoon top-up feed

4.00pm - 5.00pm        Clean buckets and the monkey kitchen and any jobs required to ensure everything is ready for the next day.

5.00pm                         Head back to the volunteer house for a well-earned meal and rest


Actividades de tiempo libre

On working days, most volunteers just like to relax after the evening meal, either by watching a movie or playing cards or a board game or just sitting and having a chat, maybe over a cold beer from the honesty bar.


On leisure days though, it's a good idea to make the most of your time in South ...

Actividades de tiempo libre

On working days, most volunteers just like to relax after the evening meal, either by watching a movie or playing cards or a board game or just sitting and having a chat, maybe over a cold beer from the honesty bar.


On leisure days though, it's a good idea to make the most of your time in South Africa and get out and see and do as much as possible.
Close to the volunteer house, there is ziplining, horseriding, surfing lessons, beaches with tidal pools, guided snorkelling, boat trips, canopy obstacle course, mountain bike trails, shopping centres, a cinema, restaurants and bars.

A little further away is Hluhluwe-Umfolozi (the oldest game reserve in Africa), the town of St Lucia and iSimangaliso Wetlands Park (a world heritage site and famous for the hippos that sometimes come out of the estuary and into the town in the evenings) and the Drakensberg Mountains (another world heritage site) to name just a few. 


Requisitos

Requisitos

Edad mínima: 18 años

Para participar en el programa debes tener al menos 18 años en la fecha de inicio del programa. Puede haber excepciones si muestras el permiso de tu(s) tutor(es) legal(es) o si vas acompañado de tus padres.

Conocimientos lingüísticos

Tienes que hablar (nivel intermedio) Inglés

Documentos necesarios

CV, completed application form and signed sanctuary rules document

Restricciones de nacionalidad

Sin restricciones. Las manos amigas de todo el mundo son bienvenidas.

Otras habilidades

The most important thing is a willingness to get involved and help out with any task. It is important to be relatively fit as there is a fair amount of walking and carrying heavy buckets and water containers and some manual work in the forest.

Tiempo dedicado

Necesitaremos tu ayuda los Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, Jueves y Domingo de 08:00 - 17:00

Servicios incluidos

Servicios incluidos

Servicios de Primate Sanctuary

The fees are for the food, accommodation and transport.  Included in this accommodation package is:

- airport transfers (Durban King Shaka International) at the start and end of the volunteer placement;
- daily transport to and from the sanctuary on working days;
- accommodation at the volunteer house;
- bed linen and bath towels;
- 3 meals per day;
- laundry;
- uncapped wifi;
- support of the volunteer coordinator throughout your stay;
- help with planning things to see and do in the province on your leisure days.

Please note that the balance payment will be charged in South African Rand.

Recogida en el aeropuerto King Shaka International Airport

Pick up from Durban King Shaka International Airport and transfer to the volunteer house is included in the price.  


Please plan to arrive and depart during daylight hours.

Alojamiento

Our volunteers stay in a privately-owned volunteer house located in the town of Shakaskraal, just 10kms from the sanctuary and 10kms from the beaches, bars, restaurants, cinema and shopping malls of Ballito.


The house has 4 volunteer bedrooms, each with twin beds (no bunk beds here!), air conditioning and access to a private shower room.  Bed linen and bath towels are provided.

The house also has a large kitchen, dining room (where the evening meal is served), TV lounge with DSTV satellite channels and DVD player, gardens and honesty bar.

Comida y bebida

The accommodation package includes 3 meals per day.


Self service breakfast - cereals, fruit, yoghurts, toast and preserves
Self service packed lunch to take with you to work - items are provided for you to make sandwiches or a salad or similar
Evening meal is served in the dining room, usually between 6pm and 7pm depending on the activities of the day.

We can cater to all dietary requirements but please make sure you inform us of these in advance.

Acceso a Internet

Buen acceso al lugar del proyecto

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Boletos de avión

El aeropuerto más cercano es King Shaka International Airport (DUR) en Durban. Te ayudamos a encontrar vuelos baratos a Sudáfrica. ENCONTRAR VUELOS BARATOS

Seguro de viaje

Ir al extranjero es una aventura y siempre es mejor estar preparado. Enfermedad o lesión repentina, cancelación o robo: un seguro de viaje para Sudáfrica proporciona seguridad y es una ventaja tenerlo. OBTENER UN PRESUPUESTO

Vacunas

Si tiene intención de realizar un voluntariado en Sudáfrica, debe solicitar asesoramiento médico antes de iniciar su viaje social. Comprueba las vacunas que necesitas para Sudáfrica. COMPROBADOR DE VACUNAS

Detalles a la llegada

Volunteers can join on any date through the year.

On arrival, the volunteer will be met at the airport and taken to the volunteer house.  Depending on the day and time of arrival, the rest of the day will normally be at leisure. The volunteer coordinator will give an orientation talk before the first full working day at the sanctuary. 

Volunteers are requested to please arrive and depart during daylight hours.

Disponibilidad
Enero Feb. Marzo Abr. Mayo Jun Jul Agosto Set. Oct. Nov. Dic.

Cuotas del programa

2 semanas (estancia min.) 517€
3 semanas 775€
4 semanas 1.033€
5 semanas 1.292€
6 semanas 1.550€
7 semanas 1.808€
12 semanas (estancia max.) 3.100€
Cuota promedio 258€/semana

Cuotas del programa

258€ cuotas semanales 2 - 12 semanas Edad 18 - 50+

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Duración

2 - 12 semanas

Depósito

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Pago final

El pago final se acordará con Primate Sanctuary durante el proceso de solicitud. Las soluciones habituales son la transferencia bancaria o el pago en efectivo en el lugar del proyecto.


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Primate Sanctuary

Sobresaliente 4.9 rating (12 reseñas)

Sin fines de lucro - fundada en 2019

Verificado por Volunteer World

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Paula

sobre la organización

A 23-hectare forest sanctuary providing a safe forever home for captive raised exotic primates

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Who are we?

The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary (previously called Monkeyland-KZN) is the newest and largest sanctuary in the award-winning South African Animal Sanctuary Alliance (SAASA) group of sanctuaries. SAASA has been providing safe forever homes to previously captive primates, birds and big cats since 1998. 

What do we do?
The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary, the largest free-roaming primate sanctuary in Africa, is a true sanctuary, providing a safe forever home for unwanted ex-zoo animals and pets.  At The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary, these primates can enjoy a life as close as possible to the one nature intended.  They live un-caged, roaming freely through the 23-hectare indigenous forest, alongside other primate species and indigenous wildlife.

They form troops, forage for wild food, scent mark and patrol their territories and a myriad of other natural behaviours once given the environment in which to be more free.

As a true sanctuary, there is strictly no human-animal interaction.  Staff, volunteers and visitors are welcome to photograph and video the primates or just enjoy watching them monkeying around but cannot touch, hand-feed or get too close, which may make them feel threatened.

Where we work?
Our sanctuary is located in the stunning Dolphin Coast area of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). We enjoy year-round warm air and sea temperatures and are ideally located for exploring all the cultural, historical, wildlife and adventure attractions that KZN has to offer. All this, and it's a malaria-free area of South Africa.

Our mission and goals
The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary's first priority is to provide a safe forever home to rescued exotic primates.  The sanctuary offers guided tours of the forest which helps to achieve our second aim which is to educate people about the threats and challenges these primates face both in captivity and in the wild.

Who are we looking for?
We welcome anybody with a passion for nature and wildlife and a willingness to work hard and be flexible. Sanctuary work is rarely glamorous but very rewarding.

Why choose us?
So many reasons, but here's the my Top 3.  Firstly, if you love animals, you will want to invest your time with a place that you know truly cares for them. The Hidden Forest Wildlife Sanctuary is a truly ethical sanctuary as evidenced by the recent Wild Choices assessment. The needs of the animals always come first. There is no interaction, the animals in our care are treated with respect and allowed to live freely in the forest.
Secondly, we have a fantastic small team who will become not only your work mates but also your friends. As well as helping you at the sanctuary, they're sure to teach you lots about the local culture and they'll have you speaking Zulu in no time at all.
All of that, plus we are located in the most stunning province of South Africa.  KwaZulu-Natal is somewhat of a hidden gem.  It's not full of visitors and is still a little undiscovered by the masses.  Big 5 game reserves, mountains, adventure activities, sites of historical and cultural importance and world heritage sites are all on our doorstep.

12 reseñas · rating4.9

Lisa Modè rating5

2024 at Primate Keeping Assistant

I'm 21 years old and from Italy. I spent nearly three weeks at this sanctuary, and it was one of the best choices I’ve ever made. From the very beginning, Paula was incredibly kind and always ready to help, whether it was preparing meals, assisting me in booking activities, or anything else I ...
Tomar Peeters rating5

2023 at Primate Keeping Assistant

I spend 12 weeks here every day was amazing. The forrest with all these monkeys living together from other continents but still can communicate normally. The housing is a 10/10 plus the person helping the volunteers is amazing and makes it more special. I would if you love monkeys to go here and ...
Priscilla Sergi rating5

2022 at Primate Keeping Assistant

I went in august 2022. It was a wonderfull experience. I worked with very good people. They teach you a lot about monkey, forest.. you can see the real Life of south african people and the Amazing person they are. Normally you work from sunday to tuesday and friday and saturday you can do a lot of ...
Leonie rating5

2022 at Primate Keeping Assistant

Volunteering at MonkeyLand KZN was the best decision i've ever made. Paula is not only an amazing host but also just a lovely human being and caring like a mom. The people working at the senctuary are special in the best possible way and so is the experience working for the animals. The people are ...
Nina rating5

2022 at Primate Keeping Assistant

A while ago I was dreaming of traveling to southafrica. But I didn't wanted to just travel. I wanted to do something reasonable. Something which would fullfill me with joy and which I've never done before. So I was scrolling thrue the internet and found Monkeyland. I liked how they presented ...
Leni Garcia rating5

2022 at Primate Keeping Assistant

Thanks for giving volunteers and people in general the opportunity of spending time near nature and wildlife. Thanks specially for the unique help and daylife teaching and taking care of volunteers of persons like Paula and Rue. Its an amazing experience waking everyday to live a new adventure ...

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