Series starts January 6th 2012 on prime time UK television
The wait is nearly over. For 12 weeks from early January, the nation will be able to snuggle down every Friday night and marvel in the antics of students from Worldwide Experience’s Vet Go Wild student placement programme as they get up close and personal with the fabled Big Five in South Africa.
ITV 1’s Safari Vet School television series worked with students on Worldwide Experience’s specialised Vets Go Wild placement programme. The students are mentored throughout the programme by Dr. Will Fowlds, head vet at Amakhala Game Reserve in South Africa and passionate supporter of wildlife conservation. The series itself is presented by Steve Leonard.
Safari Vet School is destined to become a highly popular reality TV show with a potent mix of ingredients including cute animals, dangerous predators and young people thrown together to work under testing conditions in one of the most beautiful places on earth.
As Dr. Will Fowlds himself points out, “The Vets Go Wild experience through Worldwide Experience is a fantastic opportunity to allow budding vets unparalleled wildlife experiences of dealing with some of the world’s most exciting, dangerous and indeed endangered animals.”
Worldwide Experience specialise in sending students and volunteers of all ages to work with animals in Africa, often on a range of wildlife conservation projects. The Vets Go Wild placement is one of most keenly sought after among all of Worldwide Experience’s placement programmes encouraging people to take time out (often described as a gap year project) working with animals abroad. However, the gap year specialists offer a wide range of other placement and volunteer programmes all offering the chance to work with animals in Africa or abroad, quite often on a conservation project such as that at the Moholoholo Rehabilitation Centre and the up and coming Kariega Game Reserve, as well as Amakhala where the Safari Vet School series was filmed.
The Vets Go Wild placement programme is already taking bookings for 2012 offering new groups of budding vets the chance to get working with animals in some of Africa’s most unspoilt game reserve locations.
Got the bug? You don’t have to be a vet to go wild in Africa! If you are interested in gap year projects working with animals in Africa, there are plenty of other suitable volunteer placement programmes available for people of all ages from the four corners of the globe.
Kathryn Noakes works with Worldwide Experience, a leading UK based company that specialises in arranging gap year volunteer programmes in Africa and other parts of the world.
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