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Ellen Windemuth, CEO of WaterBear: “We’re delighted to welcome Worldwide Experience as one of our first travel partners on the WaterBear platform. At WaterBear we use storytelling to reinvent travel. With eco-travel partners such as Worldwide Experience, we can help in supporting local communities, driving wildlife conservation and reducing environmental damage; and we look forward to doing just that!” The Waterbear Network, the ‘Netflix’ of conservation is our exciting new partner in our mission to make a real impact for the planet. Waterbear is a free interactive platform dedicated to the future of our planet, motivated by UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Uniquely, users are notRead More →

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Sally Bartlett is a veterinary nurse, based in the UK, who has travelled with Worldwide Experience twice; once to Vets Go Wild and once on a volunteering trip to Conserving Orphaned Rhinos. She continues to fundraise annually for a local underprivileged community in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. we caught up with her recently as she wrote the following on her experiences as a veterinary nurse travelling the world and working with wildlife on different continents. Read about her experiences below. June 2017- Vets Go Wild, SA “I qualified as a registered veterinary nurse in 2012 so I took this trip 5 years laterRead More →

Rhino Conservation

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Dr William Fowlds is a wildlife vet in South Africa, and the founder of our Vets Go Wild courses. One of the privileges in Dr William Fowld’s professional life is to work with rhino around the Eastern Cape reserves and to get to know them as individuals. Dr Fowlds travels to the East and to the West sharing his personal testimony of the brutal reality of poaching from the coal face as well as efforts to bring back rhino from the brink of death with his pioneering veterinary care. This World Rhino Day, we caught up with Dr Fowlds and asked him the following questions: Rhinos are iconic animals,Read More →

elephant conservation

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“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.” ― Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild Why is elephant conservation important? Elephants face increasingly challenging threats every day. Conservationists, researchers, wildlife veterinarians and zoologists work tirelessly to address these threats, to preserve this incredible keystone species.  A keystone species is a species whose presence (or absence) impacts allRead More →