Two people who wanted to do things different.
Beyond the Wild is Sam and Sarah. We are an adventure-driven agency, and we place people on conservation projects and experiences we have personally done ourselves.
It started with a Journey through Australia...
We started Beyond the Wild because the experiences we wanted did not exist as products — they existed as projects and places, run by people doing the work, usually with little to no marketing at all.
We moved to Australia 8 years ago in search of unique experiences… Since then, we travelled and worked in some of the most beautiful and remote places & experienced truly wild places, with animals and experiences worth preserving… From working on a tiny island on the Great barrier reef to the deserts of Shark Bay, we experienced it all.
In the last couple of years, our horizons broadened to South Africa, where our love for animals landed us on a small cheetah project near “Joburg”, since then we haven’t looked back and made it our mission to contribute to conservation of endangered animals, whilst volunteering on the project itself. Our goal is to partner with ethical projects around the world.
We are photographers, too.
Away from the project, we are photographers. We run Journey Prints Studio, selling travel prints and wildlife prints from the places we have lived, worked and volunteered.
Our new print shop is in the works.
Four things we can actually promise.
We volunteer regularly
We only visit our partner projects in person to ensure they are ethical.
You speak to us, not a call centre
Every enquiry is read and answered by one of us.
Rescue-first projects only
If animals are bred, sold or traded, we do not work with the project.
We stay in contact while you are there
Before you fly, while you are on the project, and after you land home.
Adventure, with something at the end of it.
We look for experiences that sit outside the usual itinerary — places you would not find on a booking site, run by people who are not selling anything. Conservation comes first; the adventure is what it feels like from the inside.
Come and see what volunteers keep going back for.
On the ground you will work alongside the project’s own small, family-run conservation team. See who you will meet.