Volunteer - nature reserve and wildlife sanctuary

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About Wild Rescue NPC

Location:

Portion 35, Klipfontein Farm 414,, Riversdale, Riversdale, Western Cape 6670, ZA

Mission Statement

Our aim is to rescue injured, orphaned and other wildlife in need; provide high quality care; rehabilitate and manage the release process; to give a second chance to wildlife which cannot be released, by providing the best possible care in an enriched sanctuary environment. The sanctuary also provides a platform for hands-off, effective education. To restore & regenerate landscapes to preserve vulnerable and endangered vegetation types, eco tones and plant species on this unique proclaimed fynbos nature reserve and within our local area. Always to educate and engage in developing an attitude of respect and compassion for all sentient beings, their habitats, and our shared environment.

Description

Gill Simpson(our founder) worked at the Jane Goodall Chimpanzee Sanctuary further north in South Africa, and realised there was an urgent need for a rehabilitation facility and sanctuary in her home province of the Western Cape.. She bought the Hannes Zaaiman Private Nature Reserve for this purpose (out of her own funds), and started Wild Rescue non profit organisation. There is a desparate need for rescue of all species of wildlife, and also of the habitats to enable wildlife to live as they are meant to - in their natural habitats. To this end, and due to the threatened status of so much of the Western Cape habitats, the scope of the organisations was widened to include rescue/ preservation of habitats and plants. In the period since starting, they have been instrumental in saving many wildlife (in particular through having an easily accessible hotline), have built a rehabilitation clinic, have leopard tortoises and monkeys in their sanctuary (who would otherwise have been euthanized), have approval from the conservation authorities, have run many courses, have started and indigenous plant nursery, and have cleared many hectares of alien invasive plants.