— T u l i B l o c k · B o t s w a n a · Est. 2007
Conservation in the Land of Giants.
Join us in the unfenced wilderness of eastern Botswana — where elephants move freely across ancient migration routes and your hands-on work genuinely shapes the future of this land.
400+
Bird Species
2007
Year Founded
18
Maximum Volunteers
90
Maximum Days Stay
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No extra booking fees. Every pound, dollar or euro you pay goes straight to the people running the Conservation Project on the ground. You are funding your future
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Real conservation in one of Africa's last truly wild places.
Wild At Tuli is a hands-on conservation project founded in 2007 by Judi Gounaris and Helena Fitchat. We welcome individuals, school groups, youth organizations and university researchers to live and work alongside us in the Tuli Block — a vast, unfenced wilderness in eastern Botswana.
What makes Tuli in Botswana different is what it doesn't have: no fences, no crowds, no predictable game drives on paved tracks. Elephants cross between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe as they have for centuries. The land is ancient, the work is real, and the experience is yours to earn.
This isn't a luxury safari. It's not a gap-year tick-box. It's conservation work that matters, carried out by people who care enough to show up and get their hands dirty. YOU can be part of this.
All your questions answered - insights from the Wild At Tuli Project in Botswana, from the people who run the project.
Helen has spent over 40 years on and off in the wilderness. She is an expert tracker, has crossed the Kalahari desert on her own and lived with the Bushmen for a year. She is also a pilot, a biologist specializing in Animal Behaviour , she single-handedly navigated her way through the vast Okavango Delta in a leaking boat and survived! For 10 years she was the Operations Director of The Centre for Rehabilitation Of Wildlife (CROW) in Durban, South Africa during which time an estimated 40,000 animals will have been admitted.
Dr Helena Fitchat
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udi worked for more than 30 years in the corporate IT world and always volunteered her spare time to help animals. Apart from numerous creatures needing help, she has looked after baby cheetah, helped rear two lion cubs who were featured on Animal Planet and spent several years with two Cape Clawless otters that learnt to swim and fish before being released back into the wild. One of her favorite animals is the bush baby and she has hand-reared a number of these rare little creatures. For more than 8 years Judi was a Committee Member and latterly Chairperson of The Centre for Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) in Durban South Africa.