Conservation Action and Mentorship Programme (CAMP)
Come and understand what wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and managing human-wildlife interactions really involves. Or come and help us do it.
Where you are coming
Our centre is a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facility, run in partnership with the Maharashtra Forest Department. We provide medical aid and rehabilitation to over 9000+ wild animals each year, across more than 260 species of mammals, birds and reptiles, with 10-15 new cases arriving on an average day.
The animals here are patients. They arrive injured, orphaned, displaced, or caught somewhere they never meant to be, and everything this organisation does is in service of sending as many of them home as we can.
That purpose shapes what a day here looks like. This is not a zoo where you can comfortably view animals, and you may see fewer animals than you expect. The ones recovering well are usually the ones who stay furthest from us, and we are glad of it.
What you do experience and learn instead is something rarer. We can show you the work.
How a leopard is tracked, and safely captured, and returned to the forest. How a raptor's fractured wing is repaired in a bird that cannot be told to rest, and how that bird is flight-tested, again and again, before anybody agrees it is ready to go. How a conversation with a housing society at seven in the evening determines whether anybody is bitten by a snake at nine. And why, after nearly two decades of this, the most difficult species we work with is still our own.
Thousands of people have walked through these gates. Almost all of them leave having seen less animals than they hoped but having understood far more than they expected. We would be glad to have you among them.
Everything we ask of you, and the reasons behind it.
Two ways to join us
Come and understand the work.
Two hours inside a working rescue and rehabilitation centre, with the people who run it. For individuals, families, corporate teams, and institutional delegations including NGOs, government departments and academic groups.
You will learn about how rescue, treatment, rehabilitation and human-wildlife conflict management are actually done, and where they still fall short. Note: You will not take part in the work, and you will not have contact with the animals. Our team photographs your visit and shares the images with you afterwards.
For visitors aged 10 and over. There is no charge. Please finalise your visit in advance.
Request an Insight Visit →Come and help us do it.
Structured placements for interns and volunteers, on the veterinary track or the applied wildlife management track, or students, veterinarians, and anyone with a serious interest in wildlife conservation. Working days for corporate teams.
You will contribute your time and energy where we need it most, under supervision of authorised personnel. Much of the work is physical, and much of it is repetitive. All of it is the reason animals here survive. Note: CAMP applications are reviewed, and we are not always able to place everyone who applies.
Explore Volunteering →Still deciding?
Both routes ask something of you, and neither offers what most people first imagine. It takes two minutes to find out which one fits.