Water for People & Wildlife Conservation Safari August 2024

Imvelo has put together a volunteering / conservation safari for guests to help deliver vital work to protect elephant and wildlife reliant on the waterholes across the south-east of Hwange NP. It will combine a safari experience with behind the scenes conservation work helping deliver diesel, parts and supplies to 25 pumps where full time staff are based 24 hours a day to keep the pumps running. Imvelo use hybrid pumps where diesel kicks in as the solar energy runs out, vital when elephant drink at night. A one week safari will be based between Camelthorn and Jozibanini camps, monitoring wildlife as well as helping the rural communities settled along the edge of the Park. The Guide’s focus will be on the key conservation work that Imvelo undertakes but the wildlife game viewing will be incredible whilst undertaking these activities.

If the dates are too tight on this occasion, please consider donating to our water for wildlife and communities projects (imvelosafarilodges.com/make-an-impact).

OR coming on safari with Imvelo at a later time where we can showcase the work that we do and put together a special itinerary on a private basis to help in this vital conservation work.

In Hwange, rain can be expected from November to April, with about 1200 mm (47 inches) in a good year. The 2023-24 season saw Hwange Main Camp record only 360 mm (14 inches) while the second half of the season, which is critical rain for the growth, seeding and fruiting of the grasses and other vegetation, was almost entirely dry.

El Nino brought high temperatures and low rainfall to this part of Africa. Central parts of the region experienced the driest February in more than 100 years, according to a report by the United States Agency for International Development’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

Please contact us for further details about the projects and efforts to provide vital water for wildlife and communities in Hwange 2024.