Volunteer on our unique programme that offers volunteers a meaningful combination of dolphin / whale research as well as marine conservation, education and community upliftment. Our partner, a non-profit research organisation, has joined forces with a local award-winning organisation in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, in the picturesque Garden Route to offer an enriched programme.

Volunteer in South Africa’s first captive elephant research unit situated in an indigenous par k be tween Knysna and Plettenberg Bay on the picturesque Garden Route. You have the opportunity to add to the sparse research on captive elephants globally with respect to their welfare and husbandry by volunteering in areas such as research collection and collation, marketing, functions, maintenance, training, guiding and education. The field work involves long hours and is not for the faint-hearted. However, the rewards are many – especially when the elephants begin to trust you and you become one of the herd!