During next summer for four weeks i will be flying to South Africa with Operation Wallacea. I will be carrying out Conservation work alongside professional scientists and rangers. For the first three weeks i will be working as a Research Assistant in the Dinokeng Game Reserve, carrying out distance surveys from trucks on the Big 5 (African Lion, African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, African Leopard and Rhino), completing bird point counts, undertaking surveys on the effects of browsing and grazing on the land and observing camera traps for nocturnal species such as Leopard and Caracal. In doing this i will be contributing to the data collection and analysis into how well conservation projects are running in the reserve.

In my last week i will be learning to dive in Sodwanna Bay, Swaziland. Once i've learned to dive to a depth of 18m, i will be assisting in research in the Indian Ocean as part of the reef ecology study being conducted there.