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WOW what an amazing experience. 16 nights at Antelope Park working on the African Lion Rehabilitation project.
and details of out 2011 trip back to Antelope Park
http://www.sad-land.co.uk/2011/10/30/volunteering-at-antelope-park-gweru-zimbabwe-2011/

Information about the A.L.E.R.T. Project taken from the Africa Impact website

The Lion Rehabilitation Program:

Over 200,000 lions used to roam the African continent, as recently as 1975. The latest estimates show an 80 – 90% population decline in the last 30 years. The end objective of the Victoria Falls lion project, along with our Antelope Park programme, is the reintroduction of the offspring of captive-bred lions into the wild by means of a four-stage process, which you will learn more about during your involvement with the project.

A brief breakdown of a day in the life of a volunteer.

6:00am – Bottle feed the 3 8 week old cubs
6:30am – 8:00am lion walk, taking cubs from 7 months to 18 months out into the bush, either with or without clients.
8:30am – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30am – 12:30pm involved various duties including enclosure cleaning (Elephant, Horse or Lion shit shovelling), cub walking, boundary patrols, painting lion enclosures or meat preparation.
12:30pm – 2:10pm Lunch
2:10pm – 6:00pm afternoon duties included lion walks, horse rides, fighting fires, making fire breaks, painting and more shit shovelling.
6.00pm – Briefing by the volunteer coordinator about the following days activities
6:30pm – Dinner

My favourite parts were the meat preparation and fighting bush fires with tree branches, oh and of course we hogged the cub sitting 

Photos of Antelope Park

The 3 C’s – Chobe, Chisa and Chundu

Meat Prep and other gruesome stuff

Lions and Lion Walks

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