Maintenance and Repair

The work of conservation is hard and expensive.  As a volunteers, we participated in maintenance and upkeep.

There was no shortage of work to be done.  On one day we helped repair a fence and on another we helped build supports for newly planted trees.  The trees were to provide shade for a new waterhole to reduce evaporation.  The girls loved using a machete to chop poles!

Survival Skills

It wasn’t all work!  Our guide Trymore drove us to a remote part of the park and gave us a survival skill challenge: “Build a shelter.”  Kylie and I employed a different strategy from Sharleen and Alyssa.  We tried to build a tree fort to get up off the ground level (conveniently in a toilet paper tree), while Sharleen and Alyssa build theirs on the ground and focused on concealment and using plants to keep the mosquitoes away.

Zimbabwe background
IMIRE: Ranger Patrols and Conservation
IMIRE: Maintenance and Repair
IMIRE: Community Outreach
IMIRE: Reflections (Link TBD)