Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
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Guglielmo S
4 contributions
Jan 2024 • Couples
The center needs support from tourists to keep their mission and it permits you to understand how much can be stupid the mankind against animals.
Guides are smart and very funny with kids.
Highly recommend.
Guides are smart and very funny with kids.
Highly recommend.
Written January 17, 2024
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Mark I
Eastbourne, UK14 contributions
Nov 2023 • Solo
I was lucky enough to be staying at the onsite Forest Camp. Everything was excellent and the rehab centre was very informative and educational.,
Written November 23, 2023
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Bruce S
Hat Head, Australia19 contributions
Feb 2023 • Couples
This wildlife sanctuary in the north of South Africa boasts a varied cross-section of Sub-Saharan Africa animals. The open range nature of Moholoholo gives the place a safari-like feel. You can feed a vulture perched on your right arm (surprisingly heavy!), pat a cheetah (looking somewhat bored and disinterested in your presence), dodge juvenile rhinos and check out more unusual local fauna like the small but fierce honey badger.
Written October 8, 2023
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adagrobler4626
Johannesburg, South Africa4 contributions
Jun 2023 • Family
To be up and personal with all the wild animals and to realize the size of some of the birds that is special and to hear about all the rescue work they do is fantastic! Stoffel stoffel the honey badger wOw
Written September 17, 2023
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Linda L
Hudson, MA18 contributions
Aug 2023 • Friends
I just returned with a friend from the experience of a lifetime in volunteering side-by-side with about 25 other young volunteers, committed and dedicated to the care and well-being of animals and birds rescued from abandonment or abuse. What impressed me the most was the compassionate and heartfelt efforts of everyone involved at this center. It was on display every day as they shared their knowledge, oversaw our work, encouraged our participation in enhancements that would challenge and engage the wildlife and make it there every day existence a kind, and considerate one. Our morning begin at 6:30 AM and finished, sometimes at 6 PM. We cleaned the enclosures of waste, scrub down each of their personal spaces, send them the specific portions, appropriate for them, provided water, filled wading pools, and interacted with them when it allowed. I returned home with a full heart, and will regard this experience as life-changing.
Written September 8, 2023
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Pauline C
Boxborough, Massachusetts, United States5 contributions
Aug 2023 • Friends
I volunteered at Moholoholo and it was one of the best things I have ever done/experienced in my 68 years of life. The staff and volunteers are very dedicated to keep the animals happy and healthy. The close interactions with the animals is super rewarding. Left my heart behind.
Written September 6, 2023
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Melani
Rustenburg, South Africa116 contributions
Aug 2023 • Family
So wonderful to see the center being run by passionate people. Thank you for all the wonderful work you do, we appreciate you very much.
The experience was great and also again eye opening to the delemas our animals face on a daily basis.
Stoffel is looking good and so are all the other animals.
Thank you
The experience was great and also again eye opening to the delemas our animals face on a daily basis.
Stoffel is looking good and so are all the other animals.
Thank you
Written August 14, 2023
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Angelica
2 contributions
Aug 2023 • Solo
have just returned home from an experience that I absolutely would not repeat or recommend to anyone.
I study veterinary medicine in Italy and the idea of seeing "exotic" animals up close , helping in some way in the arduous task of fighting poaching in my own small way and restoring injured animals to health and then granting them freedom again made me happy and eager to get started.
Instead, I found upon my arrival a great little zoo full of sad animals, most of whom surviving with probably no future chance of being free. The staff members told us that these animals cannot be released because they would not survive in the wild. However, every day many people pay the tickets for a tour, so it’s clear that keeping animals in the cages has an important economic gain for the center.
Animals are often fed with carcasses of other animals killed precisely by poachers and delivered to the center as food.. There seems to be something absurd about this concept...
I found a hostile environment where no one greeted me with a smile, no one was kind to me, no one explained rules to follow other than that we all wake up at dawn and "clean up," take a break and then clean up again.
With my bare hands , without gloves and without any protection, thus risking diseases easily transmitted especially by birds and their dropping. I also cut kilos and kilos of meat and dismembered and eviscerated chicks, food for the sad animals.
I ate very little and very badly.
Food was little and insufficient for the number of volunteers.
This is not a way of volunteering in my concept of volunteering. I offer my labor, all my energy , all my efforts for free, but in return I would like to be fed sufficiently , housed in accordance with common hygienic standards and protected in my health.
Moreover, which is really absurd, I paid a large amount of money for all this .
And while it is true that , as someone on the staff said, our money only served to feed the animals in your zoo, this does not exonerate from the responsibility of having run the center's organization very poorly.
I have felt very sad in this place, as sad as the animals in your great little zoo.
And I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, to have sacrificed all my savings for this experience , which maybe will be good as they say all experiences are , even the worst ones, but surely it is and will remain one of the most miserable of my life.
I do not wish this adventure on anyone, and to anyone who will ask me to talk about it , I will only tell of my enormous sadness and the sadness, also enormous, of the animals in these great little zoo.
I study veterinary medicine in Italy and the idea of seeing "exotic" animals up close , helping in some way in the arduous task of fighting poaching in my own small way and restoring injured animals to health and then granting them freedom again made me happy and eager to get started.
Instead, I found upon my arrival a great little zoo full of sad animals, most of whom surviving with probably no future chance of being free. The staff members told us that these animals cannot be released because they would not survive in the wild. However, every day many people pay the tickets for a tour, so it’s clear that keeping animals in the cages has an important economic gain for the center.
Animals are often fed with carcasses of other animals killed precisely by poachers and delivered to the center as food.. There seems to be something absurd about this concept...
I found a hostile environment where no one greeted me with a smile, no one was kind to me, no one explained rules to follow other than that we all wake up at dawn and "clean up," take a break and then clean up again.
With my bare hands , without gloves and without any protection, thus risking diseases easily transmitted especially by birds and their dropping. I also cut kilos and kilos of meat and dismembered and eviscerated chicks, food for the sad animals.
I ate very little and very badly.
Food was little and insufficient for the number of volunteers.
This is not a way of volunteering in my concept of volunteering. I offer my labor, all my energy , all my efforts for free, but in return I would like to be fed sufficiently , housed in accordance with common hygienic standards and protected in my health.
Moreover, which is really absurd, I paid a large amount of money for all this .
And while it is true that , as someone on the staff said, our money only served to feed the animals in your zoo, this does not exonerate from the responsibility of having run the center's organization very poorly.
I have felt very sad in this place, as sad as the animals in your great little zoo.
And I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, to have sacrificed all my savings for this experience , which maybe will be good as they say all experiences are , even the worst ones, but surely it is and will remain one of the most miserable of my life.
I do not wish this adventure on anyone, and to anyone who will ask me to talk about it , I will only tell of my enormous sadness and the sadness, also enormous, of the animals in these great little zoo.
Written August 11, 2023
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jelico
Brighton, UK218 contributions
Jul 2023 • Friends
Disappointing tour due to size of group at 50+people with one guide. Moses, the guide was great and informative but with so many people it was hard to get the most out of the visit if not impossible at some of the enclosures. For the number if people there should have been 3 groups. S hool holidays was not an acceptable excuse for poor management. Waiting 20 minutes to get through the entry gates nearly put us off. Rather wish we'd turned round and left at that point. Would not go back
Written July 14, 2023
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Christy
London, UK91 contributions
Jun 2023 • Couples
Tour guide was very knowledgeable and passionate. Chance to see animals up close. Love the honey badger! I have a new appreciation for vultures and the issues they face, especially. Well worth a visit.
Written June 19, 2023
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Hi, i would like to come and meet Stoffel, where can i do this?
I dunno ;6
Is the cheetah breeding that this centre does ethical?
I have read a couple of things suggesting that the cheetah can't be released into the wild because they need to be raised by a wild mother to know how to survive and that therefore they are being bred for purely commercial purposes but am hoping that isn't true!
William S
Bradenton, FL19 contributions
Is Stoffel the badger still alive? Did he ever escape the electric fence?
louannewiese
Johannesburg, South Africa25 contributions
Hi, yes he is still alive and when we were there he was safe and sound in his enclosure!
umfana
Johannesburg, South Africa40 contributions
What is entrance fee for senior citizens and gate times please
krugerandmore
Nelspruit, South Africa367 contributions
Hi
Not sure of the price,sorry
9.30 am and 3 pm most days except Sunday afternoon.
Thanks
marije w
Gorredijk, The Netherlands9 contributions
Is it possible to visit between the tours? Or only if you participate in one of the tours? This is on our way from one place to another so neither 9:30 nor 15:00 will be possible for us
smousieAntwerpen
antwerpen100 contributions
No, you need to join a tour. It is all arranged and it is a guided tour. You cannot visit on your own.
Sad you cannot make it, may be next time.
Enjoy your holidays, we loved our too ! ❤️
karen
Schoorl, The Netherlands10 contributions
I'm looking for a ranger course for our kids, 8&9 years old. It's a half day course. I know it's somewhere around Moholoholo. Anybody any ideas?
Mo75Holland
Holland29 contributions
Hallo Karen, ik zou het eigenlijk niet weten waar een rangercursus is in de buurt van Moholoholo. Waar zeker wel veel aandacht aan rangercursussen voor kinderen wordt besteed is bij Kololo in de Waterberg regio. Maar dat is helemaal niet bij Moholoholo in de buurt. Groetjes, Monique
glendaingermany
Heidelberg, Germany89 contributions
Would any one recommend Moholoholo as a place to take photos or are most of the animals in enclosed gates?
Bernard163
Krugersdorp, South Africa20 contributions
You can get some good shots, however, the enclosures do detract and animals don't pose where you want them. the vulture enclosure was a treat.
Hotdogman22
Scotland, UK
hi i am bringing my grandson to south africa in april 2017 to volunteer with animals he is a huge animal lover like me he will be 16 years of age at that time i am looking for somewhere that allows his age preferably with a bit of hands on thanku marion
Enid H
Kenilworth, UK60 contributions
I think you would have to contact various Rescue/animal Orphanage Centres direct to see if this would be allowed! South Africa is an amazing place,mlots of Reserves etc around Hoedspruit. Enjoy!
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