Advice and Help

Sick, injured or orphaned animal found or trade/abuse suspected? Read on! 

Advice and Help for Wildlife

If you find a sick or injured wild animal or a baby animal in need of intervention, please contact Umoya Khulula or a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in your area as soon as possible. Staff at Umoya Khulula are available seven days a week, 9 AM to 5 PM, to help provide assistance with wildlife issues. Please call 083-272-3220 to reach Umoya Khulula. Veterinarians are also on call after hours to deal with wildlife emergencies for animals that are having trouble breathing, lying on their side, bleeding profusely, have broken limbs and/or extensive wounds.

Learn more on this website about how to safely help sick and injured wildlife and how to evaluate if a baby truly is an “orphan”.

If you have seen wild animals being abused, poached, kept as pets, or wildlife (animals or their parts) being sold, please report these activities.

Help Sick or Injured Wildlife
Help an Orphaned Animal
Report Trade or Abuse

Vounteer with Us

Umoya Khulula Wildlife Centre offers a once in a lifetime volunteer experience. Our paid-for volunteer programme is designed to give volunteers a genuine understanding of the rescue, rehabilitation, rewilding, and release processes, for a variety of wild animals.

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Our Work

As a private non-profit, we strive to bring awareness and sound rehabilitative care to animal’s that have suffered from poaching, snaring, the illegal pet trade, black market trafficking or human wildlife conflicts.

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Poaching

Poaching

Poaching is the illegal hunting, capturing, and often killing of wild animals. It is the largest direct threat to the future of many of the world’s most threatened species, second only to habitat destruction in overall threats against species survival.

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Snaring

Snaring

A snare is a long piece of wire with a loop at the end that is attached to a stationary object, such as a tree or log. The loop of wire in intended to catch the animal by the neck or leg.

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Wildlife are NOT Pets

Wildlife are NOT Pets

It is illegal to keep any indigenous wild animal as a pet in South Africa. Baby wild animals can be irresistibly adorable — until the cuddly baby becomes bigger and stronger than ever imagined.

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Wildlife Trafficking

Wildlife Trafficking

Wildlife trafficking involves the illegal trade, smuggling, poaching, capture, or collection of protected animal species, and affects one third of all the world’s wildlife species.

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Human Wildlife Conflict

Human Wildlife Conflict

Human-wildlife conflict occurs when animals pose a direct and repeating threat to the livelihood or safety of people, leading to the persecution of that species.

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