Mashatu Research

This is raw Africa… Join highly experienced elephant and leopard researchers in Botswana’s Northern Tuli Game Reserve, which borders on the Limpopo River in Southern Africa. Mashatu’s 80,000 acres of vast arid lands offers some of Africa’s best game viewing which you will have the opportunity to experience whilst out assisting the researchers.

Project Location: Mashatu Game Reserve, in the vast game area of the Northern Tuli Wildlife Conservation region in Botswana

Project Age Limit: Minimum 17 years, maximum decided on potential participants’ health

Project Length: 1 week, 2 week or 1 month placements available. Available year-round except during January. 2 spaces per month.

• Project Highlights:
  • Experience some of Africa’s best game viewing, particularly elephant and leopard sightings which are of a quality unique to Mashatu
  • Be privy to what goes on with large-scale wildlife conservation, management and research on this exclusive private Reserve
  • Increase your knowledge of the African bush and the fascinating wildlife that inhabit Botswana’s vast game areas, and be directly involved in offering support to this noble African conservation and research effort
  • Be involved in fascinating data collection and monitoring of radio-collared elephants or leopards

• Project Travel Highlights:
  • Landlocked Botswana offers any traveller very real bush experiences, including vast wildlife reserves such as Chobe National Park – home to some of Africa’s largest herds of elephants
  • The Makgadikgadi Pan – the World’s largest dry lakebed
  • Makori Safaris involve traversing the intriguing Okavango Delta whilst being poled by local boatmen through tranquil waterways
  • The Chobe area in Northern Botswana is also a reasonable distance from neighbouring Zimbabwe and day trips to the magnificent Victoria Falls