Ecolife Expeditions

Program Focus

Wildlife management includes health and veterinary. A wide variety of field-based and clinical care practices combine during this expedition such as wildlife immobilization, emergency treatment, disease management and rehabilitation.

EcoLife invites you to meet the indispensible role players with different expertise, working side by side to contribute to South Africa's broader conservation goals. We welcome companions who often broadens everyone's experience with their perspective.

Program Content

While we don't publish a fixed itinerary because our expeditions are shaped by real-life situations and the needs of wildlife, we always ensure that the key focus areas of the expedition are covered. Our work is dynamic, but we remain committed to the core aspects of conservation and veterinary care that guide each expedition. It's about staying flexible to address the most pressing needs while ensuring the primary objectives are met.
Our experiences and lectures always include the following topics.

• Rhinoceros conservation and the role of veterinary science
• Elephant management and the role of the veterinarian in population control
• Priorities in and the handling of clinical wildlife veterinary cases
• Maintaining wildlife genetics integrity and the functioning of the wildlife veterinary genetics laboratory
• Managing wildlife and particularly the overpopulation of elephant in Kruger National Park
• Managing the vegetation ecology to the benefit of wildlife health in the Kruger National Park
• The red line and enzootic area management
• Diseases share by livestock and wildlife and zoonosis in the region
• Wildlife post mortem and necropsy procedures when available
• The pharmacological working of various capture drugs for wildlife
• Different dartguns for different applications and applicable darts and propelling methods
• Talks, discussions, demonstrations and hands-on participation in actual game capture operations for purposes of relocation, tagging, diagnostics, vaccination and disease or injury treatment
• Wildlife conservation value of successful in vitro fertilization and embryo transfers

Please note that the itinerary of the expedition is subject to change, as we do not stage or pre-arrange wildlife management activities. We go where the action is!

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Scheduled departures for 2026

Scheduled departures for 2027