Today one of the staff, Jan, gave us a talk on conservation. Usually I would find that sort of thing really boring but this was very interesting. It was good to be able to relate all the boring environmental stuff I learned in A level biology to a real life situation. I actually see the point of it all now! There is a lot more to conservation than I first realized. I think I was a bit naïve in thinking it was a simple solution. There are so many barriers that c...

Today one of the staff, Jan, gave us a talk on conservation. Usually I would find that sort of thing really boring but this was very interesting. It was good to be able to relate all the boring environmental stuff I learned in A level biology to a real life situation. I actually see the point of it all now! There is a lot more to conservation than I first realized. I think I was a bit naïve in thinking it was a simple solution. There are so many barriers that c...

Went to the reptile park. It was pretty interesting, convinced be not to be QUITE so scared of snakes.

Squirrel duties at 10am, 4pm, 8pm and 12pm tonight. We have to feed her 0.2ml of cows milk using a syringe with a teat. We have to warm it up to body temperature before we give it to her. She's very hungry! Then we have to toilet her, as the babies often cannot excrete on their own, as in the wild it is to prevent then being smelled by predators. (the picture is very bad, but she doesn't stay still!) Lots of new people coming all the time. 3 Americans arrived to...

Sat with Masie the sable baby for a little while today. She is very sweet. Helped pull a dead wildebeest out of the water hole. It was possibly attacked by mr nibbles the crocodile, but no one is sure. Had to learn how to look after the squirrel. We have to feed her every 2 hours throughout the day and every 3 hours at night. I have to stay up until 12am to feed her tonight.