1.   Sir Bani Yas Island - United Arab Emirates

From January to March 2008, Wildlifevets.com took a team of 14 people to the UAE and captured 13 500 free ranging animals.

2.   Gorongoza Collaring

Wildlifevets.com was contracted to conduct elephant and buffalo collaring operations in the Gorongoza National Park, Mozambique. Operations are successfully completed and filmed by “60 minutes”, USA.

3.   Rhino Rescue

We assisted Mpumalanga Parks Board to retrieve a small rhino from Songimvelo Game reserve. The animal was flown out under anaesthesia, in a Hughes helicopter, and taken to an animal clinic.

4.   Education

Apart from presenting at formal conferences, we have been invited to act as guest lecturers or key note speakers at several universities or institutions over the world. These include Pennsylvania, Texas A&M, Colorado State, Kansas State, Michigan, Illinois, in the USA, University of Saskatchewan in Canada, and all five veterinary schools in the United Kingdom. We have also co-instructed on Chemical Immobilization Courses in the USA, Mexico and Peru.


We also actively promote education through publishing. This includes a long list of Peer reviewed articles, chapters to books such as Fowlers Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, Capture and Care manual and Kreegers Chemical Immobilization Manual.

5.   Peru Course and visit to the Amazon

We co presented, with Wildlife Health Services of the USA, a chemical immobilization course in Peru. It was done in Lima, and was a great success, despite having to work with interpreters. The practical was conducted in two zoos. The course had participants from all over South America, and even some from as far as Finland. On completion of the course we had a free weekend and visited Machu Picchu, and then went on to the Amazon, more specifically the Tambopata National Park, to attend a Tapir capture.