Adventure Learning Experiences

Exclusive to African Conservation Experience. By choosing one of our adventure learning experiences, you’ll have a lot more than memories to show for your time in Africa. Guided by conservation professionals, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the continent’s most fascinating species, the challenges they face, and the methods conservation workers use to protect them.

If you’re new to the world of wildlife conservation or want to explore a specific field of interest in more depth, adventure learning experiences cover a lot of ground in under two weeks. Each itinerary is also carefully designed to give you a real variety of experiences, skills and knowledge.

Choose your Adventure Learning Experience

Follow one of our professional guides deep into the African wilderness. With expert tuition in a variety of wildlife conservation issues, you’ll return home with new skills as well as amazing memories from your time in Africa.

Game Ranger Conservation Experience

Rhino Conservation Experience

ACE volunteer bottle feeding a baby rhino with a professional assisting, The Rhino Orphanage — Accompanied by experts, learn about rhino in the field and care for orphaned rhino at a specialist centre

Carrie Roussin: volunteers posing with a guide and researcher — Carrie Roussin

We completed monitoring drives and recorded various animal sightings. I really appreciated how much effort went into answering my questions.

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Sam Duggan: male volunteer working — Sam Duggan

If anyone is looking at doing these projects and wondering if ACE is the right organisation to go through, I can’t recommend it enough. When you are planning a trip like this it can be daunting, but the reviews for ACE are great for a reason!

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ACE gives students the eye-opening opportunity to gain on the ground perspectives about conservation issues, such as the rhino poaching crisis, that can be difficult to understand and appreciate fully from a distance.

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An elephant stood in the African bush — Georgie Wright

There have been a lot of highlights during my trip. One of the most memorable would be getting to observe elephants drinking water out of a pool near our camp.

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Kaitlyn Evans: hyena pups — Sophie Lazarus

This trip has confirmed my desire to pursue conservation as a career and has shown me that I want to support real wildlife projects and learn directly from those who work in conservation.

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I've volunteered with African Conservation Experience (ACE) twice now, and it's been an amazing experience both times. It feels like a second home to me.

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A herd of giraffes running through the bush at The Game Ranger Experience. — Laura Henegan

The most important thing I have learnt from this experience is to slow down and take everything around you. Volunteering at The Game Ranger Experience and having time away from social media and my phone has helped me as a person. It has also made me realise a lot about myself.

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Close-up of a rhino, Golola Rhino Orphanage and Rehabilitation Centre — Austin Hiner

I would recommend visiting a couple of projects because they are all different experiences that challenge and educate you in different ways.

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Trevor Hill: bottle feeding rhinos — Trevor Hill

I have several great memories. Too many to single out any particular one; from seeing Wild Dogs in Nthaba, feeding the baby rhinos at Care for Wild, to the day in Kruger National Park. Fantastic!

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