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The aim of the APES/Umpalazi: Combined Community & Wildlife Project is to incorporate local community upliftment, including skills training, environmental education and aid work; with the rehabilitation of injured and/or orphaned wildlife for future release and monitoring and will also be a sanctuary for other displaced animals.Friday, October 2, 2009
Our Mission
The aim of the APES/Umpalazi: Combined Community & Wildlife Project is to incorporate local community upliftment, including skills training, environmental education and aid work; with the rehabilitation of injured and/or orphaned wildlife for future release and monitoring and will also be a sanctuary for other displaced animals.
Experience South Africa
The APES /Umpalazi: Community and Wildlife Project is set on a breathtaking 18,000 acres, in the South African bush, Umpalazi is bursting with potential; both as a home and as a future refuge for wildlife.
Both projects border a future Big 5 Game Reserve that will one day compare with Kruger National Park, without being over-commercialized. It is situated approximately 17 kms from an old established town, called Greytown in the midlands of Kwazulu/Natal, yet is secluded amongst the magic of nature.
The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project endeavours to provide skills training for local rural Zulu community members. This is carried out with the help of volunteers who help train the selected local community members, whilst transforming Umpalazi's facilities as a wildlife sanctuary. (The number of local Zulu people hired depends on the number of international volunteers due to our limited funds).
This is a joint project with the Animal Protection and Environmental Sanctuary (A.P.E.S.) as co-founders, Dawn Magowan and Rodney Pendleton, will be releasing certain wildlife at Umpalazi when possible; and to get volunteers involved with wildlife conservation. APES focuses on the rehabilitation of primates (primarily the South African Vervet Monkey - Cercopithecus aethiops) and other wildlife, and are committed to community upliftment and environmental education.
The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project also carries out snare/trap clearing (in nearby forest and bush areas); game counts; bird watching and maintenance of the non- releasable vervet monkeys and others by creating 'feeding stations' when necessary (to supplement the diet of the nearby wild vervet monkeys due to their continued loss of habitat; this eliminates the need for the primates to steal food, an act which could result in their death at human hands).
There are also opportunities for volunteers to assist at nearby rural Zulu schools (environmental education etc.), to help local AIDS workers, and to participate in an up-coming project involving more intensive snare/trap clearing in forest plantations, invasive weed removal and other environmental management activities.
Please Note: since the project was formed Umpalazi has been badly vandalised and will be a very long term project, funds permitting we hope to restore it as it never had access to electricity. We hope to install solar and or gas facilities enabling people to stay here and will provide for a more environmentally friendly facility.
For information regarding volunteering or donating please contact Dawn direct on apes1@gom.co.za or visit the website www.apes.org.za
Both projects border a future Big 5 Game Reserve that will one day compare with Kruger National Park, without being over-commercialized. It is situated approximately 17 kms from an old established town, called Greytown in the midlands of Kwazulu/Natal, yet is secluded amongst the magic of nature.
The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project endeavours to provide skills training for local rural Zulu community members. This is carried out with the help of volunteers who help train the selected local community members, whilst transforming Umpalazi's facilities as a wildlife sanctuary. (The number of local Zulu people hired depends on the number of international volunteers due to our limited funds).
This is a joint project with the Animal Protection and Environmental Sanctuary (A.P.E.S.) as co-founders, Dawn Magowan and Rodney Pendleton, will be releasing certain wildlife at Umpalazi when possible; and to get volunteers involved with wildlife conservation. APES focuses on the rehabilitation of primates (primarily the South African Vervet Monkey - Cercopithecus aethiops) and other wildlife, and are committed to community upliftment and environmental education.
The APES/Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project also carries out snare/trap clearing (in nearby forest and bush areas); game counts; bird watching and maintenance of the non- releasable vervet monkeys and others by creating 'feeding stations' when necessary (to supplement the diet of the nearby wild vervet monkeys due to their continued loss of habitat; this eliminates the need for the primates to steal food, an act which could result in their death at human hands).
There are also opportunities for volunteers to assist at nearby rural Zulu schools (environmental education etc.), to help local AIDS workers, and to participate in an up-coming project involving more intensive snare/trap clearing in forest plantations, invasive weed removal and other environmental management activities.
Please Note: since the project was formed Umpalazi has been badly vandalised and will be a very long term project, funds permitting we hope to restore it as it never had access to electricity. We hope to install solar and or gas facilities enabling people to stay here and will provide for a more environmentally friendly facility.
For information regarding volunteering or donating please contact Dawn direct on apes1@gom.co.za or visit the website www.apes.org.za
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