Since introducing her at the beginning of the month, Chrissie had been pretty busy. So much so that she only managed one update between then and now. From riding on elephants to drawing blood from a cheetah, …Read more

Since introducing her last Friday, we’ve succeeded in keeping our newest student really busy. Although we did allow her a bit of time off for some ‘Africa style’ sightseeing, which included communing with spiders and spending time with hippos.

FROM CHRISSIE

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Student Programme

Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) offers people between the ages of 18 and 35 years the opportunity to experience the Centre in an intensive and hands-on 21-day programme.

It is divided into three main sections: Participation, Conservation and Sight Seeing.

The main focus of the programme is on the cheetah, and throughout their stay participants are involved in the everyday care of these magnificent animals. This includes cleaning, feeding, …Read more

It’s been a while since we’ve done an update, so to make up for things being a little quiet, we’ve made this one is a juicy bumper edition. With the onset of summer, and subsequent rains, things have great here at the Centre. For starters, we’re all much …Read more

Earlier this year HESC went to Mountain Zebra National Park in Cradock, Graaf-Reinet to fetch five cheetahs that were due to be relocated to the Blue Canyon Conservancy in Hoedspruit.

The adult female (age unknown) and …Read more

Recently we promised that the Miss Deaf SA 2011 finalists would be coming to visit the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC). Well visit they most certainly did, and from the sound of their packed …Read more

And just like that it’s time for us to bid Caroline farewell. She managed to pack a lot into the three weeks she spent at Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC), so hopefully she’ll return home with many fond memories of both HESC and South Africa. Just …Read more