WildAssist Africa

01/01/2026

WildAssist Africa 2025

A small idea grew and gave birth to WildAssist Africa in 2025.
An amazing team came together earlier this year and built the foundations for making a difference. This year our projects ranged from lions to vultures, painted dogs to rhinos, even a monitor lizard, and we ended the year on an exciting note working with cheetahs.
We also ended the year on a sad note, losing Graig Powell, a friend, collaborator and the creator of our website. He will be deeply missed, but will forever remain part of us through
www.wildassistafrica.org.

Our road into 2026 is taking us to even more exciting conservation projects. These include a spay and vaccination week assisting communities in the Tuli through our One Health Programme, Securing the Boundaries with Healthy Pets, a wildlife snare removal week in the Tuli, a vulture support programme, crime scene awareness training, and a two-week excursion through the heart of Botswana where you will be up close with conservation. Please keep an eye on our website for updates.

Our team at WildAssist Africa wishes you all, our friends and collaborators, a wonderful 2026. We thank you for your support, because you are the people who allow us to make a difference, one step at a time.
Happy 2026!

www.wildassistafrica.org

18/09/2025

31/08/2025

WildAssist Africa Website Launch
We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of our brand-new website: wildassistafrica.org!
As a Botswana-registered non-profit dedicated to supporting conservation across Sub-Saharan Africa, this site is more than just a digital home. It’s a platform to share our mission, highlight the incredible projects we support, and connect with people who care about Africa’s wildlife as much as we do.
From rhino monitoring and anti-poaching support to community outreach and veterinary services, our work spans species, landscapes, and partnerships. The new site offers insight into these programs, introduces our team, and provides clear ways to get involved, whether you’re a student, donor, vet, volunteer, or fellow conservationist.
This is just the beginning. With your support, we’re ready to amplify our impact where it matters most, in the wild.
Take a look, spread the word, and join the journey... making a difference, one step at a time!
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL ANIMALS WERE TREATED SAFELY AND RELEASED AFTER TREATMENT OR COLLARING BY AN EXPERIENCED VETERINARY SURGEON

06/06/2025

We are assisting KRC in KD1/2 and Mabuasehube Game Reserve where they are doing a great job monitoring wilddogs and lions, and empowering the local communities in tourism and anti-poaching. The Kalahari is where time and space meet, painting the sky with the most extraordinary colors when the sun touches the distant horizon.
It is a year of abundance in the Kalahari with waiving grass and numerous wild fruit dotting the sand. The abundance even defies gravity where the usual creeping Tsamma watermelons, turned into climbers, and melons now dangling to get away from the numerous nibbling mouths feasting on this survival kit of water and food. In the shade of the waving silver grass plumes hidden from untrained eyes, are cracks in the still moist sand, covering a rich yield of mahupu, or truffles, the true fat of this sandy earth. Mahubasehube Pan is still a lake filled with last seasons rainwater and water birds that miraculously found their way here, still dot the shining sea. “Name Pan” is a beehive of activity with a large herd of springbok, and groups of blue wildebeest and gemsbok ( oryx) keeping one eye on the grazing, and the other on the horizon.
The morning newspaper writes numerous stories in the sand about cheetah, wild dog, leopard, lion and hyena scouting the edges of the pan the night before. It writes about black mambas wrestling in the soft sand of the two track roads, and of an African wild cat fallen prey to a young leopard . But the many stories of battles for survival fade fast in the cold wind that gently sweep the dunes this time of year, leaving a clean slate for fresh drama the next morning.

This year is a sour grass year where radiators clog, vehicles overheat, or even set alight with grass collecting too close to the sizzling exhaust. It is a year of getting stuck in rodent burrow traps, a year to watch your step around puff adders ambushing the many tiny feet in the dense grass. But it is a year worth visiting the Kalahari, a year where space and solitude will cleanse your soul. You will see much more than other years and you will ponder in awe how this land transforms itself to abundance. Mostly your money will support the communities looking after this ancient land - a land we do not dare to lose. Please visit and support the communities? Please support WildAssistAfrica and KRC in finding solutions to the challenges of this unique part of Botswana?
PLEASE THAT ALL ANIMALS ARE SAFE AND TREATED BY AN EXPERIENCED VETERINARIAN!

16/05/2025

Welcome to WildAssist Africa.
Leveraging over 35 years of wildlife conservation and veterinary wildlife experience from its Founder, Dr Erik Verreynne, we have built a formidable international team of volunteers and collaborators ready to take on the many challenges of supporting conservation in Africa.

Our VISION is to assist with and to support the successful sustained conservation of biodiversity through projects addressing threats to endangered and threatened faunal species and their habitats in Africa.

We are complementing the traditional donor-based fund-raising model with a more meaningful participatory driven expert approach.

This is to fulfill our MISSION of achieving the successful sustained conservation of endangered and threatened faunal species and their habitats in Africa by supporting and assisting wildlife conservation related private/public partnerships, organizations, communities, and individuals by means of providing training, education, research support, veterinary support, forensic support, management expertise, and capacity building where needed.

We believe it is not always the grandeur that is required. Any support, how small it may seem, is making the difference that eventually counts. As such, we rather focus on making a difference, one step at a time. After all, our future depends on it.

We warmly invite you to join us in making a difference and ensuring our future by supporting conservation. Be part of our projects, be part of our future….
Contact us at [email protected] for more information.