Every animal deserves love, respect and to be treated with dignity.
At The Elephant and Cheetah experience, we believe that every animal matters, thus the need to teach conservation to as many people as we can. In as much as some people will not agree to our conservation efforts, we feel it is our responsibility to do what we can, when we can and how we can. It is very important to teach as many school children as we can about wildlife as they are leaders of tomorrow and they may be the future poachers too.
If, as The Elephant and cheetah experience, we can teach children to love and appreciate animals then we are going a long way in ensuring that generations to come will also get to see animals like elephants, lions and cheetahs.
Our animals enjoy the wild like any other animal as our elephants for instance spend most of their time during the day in the bush doing what elephants do. WE ARE NOT AND WILL NEVER BE a part of any form of hunting or animal abuse.
Our cheetah is also an ambassador of our cheetah conservation project where we visit schools and community gathering centers to give talks on these near extinct beautiful cats.
Here, at The Elephant and Cheetah experience, boast a variety of different animals and Community projects all under one roof. The opportunity to work with majestic, beautiful animals of Africa is here, Your Ultimate African Volunteer Experience!
The Elephant and cheetah Experience Manager:
Ms Nokuthula Ncube
Senior Guides:
Thomas (Cheetah)
Innocent (Elephants)
Sbheki (Elephants)
Ian (Lions)
We would like to welcome you to The Elephant and Cheetah experience family. Thank you so much for taking an interest in us, your help will be highly appreciated and we look forward to having you join our unique family!
Throughout this pack you will find all the information you need to know for your time with us...
Use this opportunity to work with and contribute your assistance as well as gain knowledge through hands on experience working with and alongside our Lions, Cheetah and the mighty African Elephants who call The Elephant and Cheetah experience, home. We offer a wide range of activities from daily Lion walks, Cheetah walks, Elephant rides/walks as well as Interaction to Community Education Programs to name but a few. You will find an extensive list detailing what you can look forward to and what you may be doing here, in the following pages.
The Elephant and Cheetah experience is a private company operational since the early 90s. We are committed to the conservation, wellbeing and livelihood of our vulnerable African Lion, endangered African Cheetah and Elephants. We are pioneering the breeding and hopefully future release of Cheetahs here in Zimbabwe, this being the important aspect of our Volunteer and Cheetah Conservation Trust. We are also committed to the education of our youth through our ‘Conservation Through Education Program’ conducted at our site for scholars as well as at the schools themselves . We recognise the need for our youth of today to respect and conserve our animals for the future. The future of these animals are and will be in the hands of the youth of today.
Your placement fees go directly back into the project itself, for the improvement of the programs, education, feeding the animals, veterinarian bills and care, enclosures and many more for the betterment of our animals.
We will be rendering our assistance to the capture and care of problem animals as well as of their relocation process into large safe areas where they will be out of harm’s way.
You will be working with all our animals on site, taking part in daily walks with our lions, cheetahs and elephants. Conducting research (when available) and data capture on the activities. Also take part in our community projects in the nearby village, assisting in schools with teaching some lessons. We conduct conservation education talks in schools where we take our cheetahs to the school and teach the kids about them and wildlife conservation.
06:30 - Wake up
07:00 – Meet at the Reception and receive your activities
07:30 - Morning activities start
08:45 - Breakfast
09:30 - Next activities or walk in the bush with lions/ take elephants to the
bush
12:30 - Lunch is served
14:00 - Activities: walk the cheetah/ lions or go back to the bush with the
elephants
15:15 - Activities: village tour if interested/ school visits or local clinics
17:30 - Activities finish.....time to relax!! Explore the Victoria Falls night life
The Elephant and Cheetah experience is a safe, secure and clean environment, letting you enjoy a pleasurable stay full of fun and excitement. You will be working along side trained, professional guides and handlers at all times allowing you to participate in activities safely.
We have lockers available to you in our office and your rooms where you can secure your valuables whilst you are out on activities.
Our projects are available to any person over the age of 17 to 55 ( restricted for medical purposes )from anywhere all over the world. So you will be able to meet and get acquainted with different people and cultures.
With regards to our project, it can be very demanding and requires you to be a very proactive, hard working, enthusiastic, responsible and above all have a very keen interest in animals. You need to be physically fit as well. Please let us know of any medical conditions that need attention or we should be aware of.
January to April - is warm all day. Rainy and humid. Cool at night .
May to August - is cold all day and very cold at night. Dry.
September, October and November - is very hot and very dry!
November to December - is the start of our rainy season, will be hot, very wet and humid.
Please don’t under estimate the strength of the sun, even if it looks overcast you can still burn, please use good sun cream, SPF 30 and above. Don’t risk the chance of getting sun stroke, and missing out! It is very easy to dehydrate here and if you are not used to such weather you can be struck down with dehydration and sun stroke within 3 days, it is very quick, so drink plenty of water all day and stay hydrated.