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Level 1 Field-Guide Training Programme
Dates 2009:
14. Januar - 10. Februar
18. Februar - 17. März
25. März - 21. April
29. April - 26. Mai
3. - 30. Juni
8. Juli - 4. August
12. August - 8. September
16. September - 13. Oktober
21. Oktober - 17. November
25. November - 22. Dezember
This is the famous basic training programme aimed at future guides wishing to follow a career in ecotourism. The course is accredited by the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa and includes the following subjects: bush navigation, basic ecology and geology, climate, plant and bird identification, animal tracks and tracking, 4 x 4 driving skills, basic survival skills, animal behaviour, rifle-handling, conducting game drives and walks and astronomy.
Subjects covered in the course include:
Dealing with guests and communication and facilitation skills; Introduction to eco-tourism and field guiding; indentification of prominent plants and animals including mammals, birds, reptiles and invertebrates; basic animal behaviour; basic ecology; indentification and interpretation of natural signs and sounds; human activities and history; basic astronomy; bush navigation and orientation; planning and conduction of game drives and walks; sensitivity and ethics; basic geology; basic climatology; presentation skills; animal tracks and tracking; the game drive vehicle and 4x4 driving skills; night drives; setting up a basic bush camp; basic survival skills; the safe use of a dangerous game rifle; basic radio procedures; working with a tracker; classification and taxonomy
The company:
The company was one of the first to conduct guide training courses and has been around for more than a decade now. This fact gives students the assurance of stability. Established in 1993 with a mission to raise the standard of guiding in Africa, the company is the oldest field guide training company in Africa. They were one of the first companies to conduct formal training programmes for nature guides. For more than a decade, they have been sending young people into the African wilderness to learn about the environment in exciting, in-depth and sensitive ways and to find out what it really takes to become a game ranger.
The company is owned by two highly-experienced guides with a passion for wilderness who are responsible for the design of the course programmes. One being one of southern Africa's top professional nature guides and also a successful wildlife photographer and author with five books and numerous other publications to his credit. The other has worked as a guide in some of southern Africa's top game lodges and travelled widely throughout southern Africa, visiting most of the remote wilderness areas in the region.
The company is dedicated to training and stays focused on making sure that the training programmes are of the highest standards.
The courses:
The courses are conducted by a team of experienced, dedicated and qualified instructors who have a passion for guiding and the wilderness. In addition, a cook and an assistant keep the students fed and the camp clean, so allowing students to focus on the learning experience. The courses are condutcted in great wilderness areas including one of the greatest national parks in the world, the Kruger National Park.
The students spend their entire course living in the middle of the African wilderness, with wild animals potentially right outside their tents. They do not conduct courses in air-conditioned lecture rooms in urban areas and then take you on "field trips". The entire course is a "field trip". The camps are unfenced and mostly canvas, so you are in touch with the wilderness all the time. Every training course is a learning adventure carried out in exciting wilderness areas with an emphasis on daily contact with the natural environment and its wildlife.
Approximately 60% of the activities are conducted on foot, allowing you to get the adrenalin rush of approaching big game animals on foot as well as to study and observe the smaller components of the ecosystem. The remaining time is spent in open game-drive vehicles. Other activities include shooting, sleep-outs in the bush and night drives.
The camps:
Kruger National Park Camp: Kruger National Park Camp is in the 23 000ha Makuleke concession in the northernmost part of the Kruger Park between the Limpopo and Luvuvhu Rivers. This is a true wilderness, steeped in history and situated in the remotest part of Kruger in one of the most biologically diverse areas. Scenery ranges from the beautiful, quietly-flowing Luvuvhu River shaded by Nyala trees and fever tree forests and teeming with hippos and crocodiles; to the awesome Lanner Gorge, palm-fringed wetlands and rocky outcrops with thousand-year-old baobab trees.
All the wildlife that one would expect to see in a great national park such as Kruger is present: plains game such as zebra, kudu and impala, prides of lions, a high density of leopards, herds of elephant, both rhinoceros species and African buffalo, nyala antelope in abundance and also seldom-seen animals such as eland, suni and bushpig. There is abundant birdlife. This part of Kruger is known to be one of the best birding places in the park and is home to rarely-seen species such as Pel's fishing owl, wattle-eyed flycatcher and greyheaded parrot.
Students are accommodated in comfortable, thatched, tented rooms placed on wooden decks in the shade of large nyala trees. Each room has an en-suite bathroom consisting of a shower, washbasin and flush toilet and also has a verandah overlooking the surrounding bush.
Selati Camp: Selati Camp is a simple camp situated on the bank of the Selati River in the 33 000 ha privately-owned Selati Game Reserve to the west of Phalaborwa in Limpopo Province. The reserve has a variety of habitats including thornveld, open plains, riverine woodland and magnificent granite hills. A wide range of animals lives here, including lions, elephants, rhinoceros and leopard as well as plains game such as eland, sable antelope, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, waterbuck, kudu, impala and baboons and monkeys.
The camp consists of simple dome tents, shared bathroom facilities and a communal area overlooking the Selati River. Students bring their own bedding and sleep on mattresses on the floor of the tents.
Karongwe Camp: Karongwe Camp is situated on the bank of the Karongwe River in the 9000 ha Edeni Game Reserve, south-west of Phalaborwa in Limpopo Province. The reserve has beautiful riverine systems, rocky outcrops and savannah bushveld habitats and is home to a variety of game including lion, leopard, white rhinoceros, cheetah, elephant and plains game typical of African wildlife habitats.
Students are accommodated in walk-in Meru tents with shared bathroom facilities. Students sleep on beds and bedding is supplied. A feature of the camp is the thatched sleep-out deck.
A typical day:
A typical daily programme at the camp follows a routine of rising early, usually before sunrise, drinking hot coffee and having biscuits and then leaving the camp for an outing into the wilderness. The outings are extremely flexible and determined by the unpredictability of what is found during the outing in combination with the subjects that have to be covered.
The outing could be a game drive following up on the roar of a lion heard during the night or a walk learning about the plant species occurring in the area. It could be a walk following fresh elephant tracks, learning how to track the animal and finding it or it could be a game drive to a waterhole where animals come to drink.
Students return to camp in the late morning for a hearty brunch which is followed by a lecture on the subject of the day. Study and rest time is then followed by afternoon tea and another outing into the wilderness until sunset, if walking, or until well after dark if doing a game drive. Afternoon outings could include night drives looking for nocturnal animals such as owls, bushbabies and leopards or it could be a walk looking for and learning how to identify interesting birds. It could be time spent studying the night skies or it could be a time for students to test their 4x4 driving skills.
It is then back to camp for dinner, stories around the campfire and then bed. The emphasis is on practical day-to-day experiences in the bush. The daily outings are flexible and may focus on specific subjects such as animal tracks and tracking, birds, plant identification or animal behaviour, or may involve game viewing and learning about the ecosystem in general.
The advantage of the courses is that they are conducted in the middle of magnificent wilderness areas where students are given the opportunity to find out what it is really like to live in the African wilderness in the midst of wild animals and far-removed from the trappings of modern society.
The instructors:
The course instructors have been around for a long time. Apart from other factors, they are selected based on the number of years of experience that they have had in the guiding industry. The company has been involved in community training with the Africa Foundation and the Makuleke Community, ensuring that local people living on the borders of the national parks gain access to training which will ultimately provide them with job opportunities.
The company has conducted training programmes for top tourism operators such as Wilderness Safaris, Tanzania Wildlife Safaris, KZN Wildlife, Heritage Group and various privately-owned game lodges in southern Africa.
Group Size:
The number of students is limited on each course to a total maximum of 20, with a maximum of 10 students for each instructor. This ensures that the students get personal attention at all times.
Dates 2009:
14. Januar - 10. Februar
18. Februar - 17. März
25. März - 21. April
29. April - 26. Mai
3. - 30. Juni
8. Juli - 4. August
12. August - 8. September
16. September - 13. Oktober
21. Oktober - 17. November
25. November - 22. Dezember
This is the famous basic training programme aimed at future guides wishing to follow a career in ecotourism. The course is accredited by the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa and includes the following subjects: bush navigation, basic ecology and geology, climate, plant and bird identification, animal tracks and tracking, 4 x 4 driving skills, basic survival skills, animal behaviour, rifle-handling, conducting game drives and walks and astronomy.
Subjects covered in the course include:
Dealing with guests and communication and facilitation skills; Introduction to eco-tourism and field guiding; indentification of prominent plants and animals including mammals, birds, reptiles and invertebrates; basic animal behaviour; basic ecology; indentification and interpretation of natural signs and sounds; human activities and history; basic astronomy; bush navigation and orientation; planning and conduction of game drives and walks; sensitivity and ethics; basic geology; basic climatology; presentation skills; animal tracks and tracking; the game drive vehicle and 4x4 driving skills; night drives; setting up a basic bush camp; basic survival skills; the safe use of a dangerous game rifle; basic radio procedures; working with a tracker; classification and taxonomy
The company:
The company was one of the first to conduct guide training courses and has been around for more than a decade now. This fact gives students the assurance of stability. Established in 1993 with a mission to raise the standard of guiding in Africa, the company is the oldest field guide training company in Africa. They were one of the first companies to conduct formal training programmes for nature guides. For more than a decade, they have been sending young people into the African wilderness to learn about the environment in exciting, in-depth and sensitive ways and to find out what it really takes to become a game ranger.
The company is owned by two highly-experienced guides with a passion for wilderness who are responsible for the design of the course programmes. One being one of southern Africa's top professional nature guides and also a successful wildlife photographer and author with five books and numerous other publications to his credit. The other has worked as a guide in some of southern Africa's top game lodges and travelled widely throughout southern Africa, visiting most of the remote wilderness areas in the region.
The company is dedicated to training and stays focused on making sure that the training programmes are of the highest standards.
The courses:
The courses are conducted by a team of experienced, dedicated and qualified instructors who have a passion for guiding and the wilderness. In addition, a cook and an assistant keep the students fed and the camp clean, so allowing students to focus on the learning experience. The courses are condutcted in great wilderness areas including one of the greatest national parks in the world, the Kruger National Park.
The students spend their entire course living in the middle of the African wilderness, with wild animals potentially right outside their tents. They do not conduct courses in air-conditioned lecture rooms in urban areas and then take you on "field trips". The entire course is a "field trip". The camps are unfenced and mostly canvas, so you are in touch with the wilderness all the time. Every training course is a learning adventure carried out in exciting wilderness areas with an emphasis on daily contact with the natural environment and its wildlife.
Approximately 60% of the activities are conducted on foot, allowing you to get the adrenalin rush of approaching big game animals on foot as well as to study and observe the smaller components of the ecosystem. The remaining time is spent in open game-drive vehicles. Other activities include shooting, sleep-outs in the bush and night drives.
The camps:
Kruger National Park Camp: Kruger National Park Camp is in the 23 000ha Makuleke concession in the northernmost part of the Kruger Park between the Limpopo and Luvuvhu Rivers. This is a true wilderness, steeped in history and situated in the remotest part of Kruger in one of the most biologically diverse areas. Scenery ranges from the beautiful, quietly-flowing Luvuvhu River shaded by Nyala trees and fever tree forests and teeming with hippos and crocodiles; to the awesome Lanner Gorge, palm-fringed wetlands and rocky outcrops with thousand-year-old baobab trees.
All the wildlife that one would expect to see in a great national park such as Kruger is present: plains game such as zebra, kudu and impala, prides of lions, a high density of leopards, herds of elephant, both rhinoceros species and African buffalo, nyala antelope in abundance and also seldom-seen animals such as eland, suni and bushpig. There is abundant birdlife. This part of Kruger is known to be one of the best birding places in the park and is home to rarely-seen species such as Pel's fishing owl, wattle-eyed flycatcher and greyheaded parrot.
Students are accommodated in comfortable, thatched, tented rooms placed on wooden decks in the shade of large nyala trees. Each room has an en-suite bathroom consisting of a shower, washbasin and flush toilet and also has a verandah overlooking the surrounding bush.
Selati Camp: Selati Camp is a simple camp situated on the bank of the Selati River in the 33 000 ha privately-owned Selati Game Reserve to the west of Phalaborwa in Limpopo Province. The reserve has a variety of habitats including thornveld, open plains, riverine woodland and magnificent granite hills. A wide range of animals lives here, including lions, elephants, rhinoceros and leopard as well as plains game such as eland, sable antelope, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, waterbuck, kudu, impala and baboons and monkeys.
The camp consists of simple dome tents, shared bathroom facilities and a communal area overlooking the Selati River. Students bring their own bedding and sleep on mattresses on the floor of the tents.
Karongwe Camp: Karongwe Camp is situated on the bank of the Karongwe River in the 9000 ha Edeni Game Reserve, south-west of Phalaborwa in Limpopo Province. The reserve has beautiful riverine systems, rocky outcrops and savannah bushveld habitats and is home to a variety of game including lion, leopard, white rhinoceros, cheetah, elephant and plains game typical of African wildlife habitats.
Students are accommodated in walk-in Meru tents with shared bathroom facilities. Students sleep on beds and bedding is supplied. A feature of the camp is the thatched sleep-out deck.
A typical day:
A typical daily programme at the camp follows a routine of rising early, usually before sunrise, drinking hot coffee and having biscuits and then leaving the camp for an outing into the wilderness. The outings are extremely flexible and determined by the unpredictability of what is found during the outing in combination with the subjects that have to be covered.
The outing could be a game drive following up on the roar of a lion heard during the night or a walk learning about the plant species occurring in the area. It could be a walk following fresh elephant tracks, learning how to track the animal and finding it or it could be a game drive to a waterhole where animals come to drink.
Students return to camp in the late morning for a hearty brunch which is followed by a lecture on the subject of the day. Study and rest time is then followed by afternoon tea and another outing into the wilderness until sunset, if walking, or until well after dark if doing a game drive. Afternoon outings could include night drives looking for nocturnal animals such as owls, bushbabies and leopards or it could be a walk looking for and learning how to identify interesting birds. It could be time spent studying the night skies or it could be a time for students to test their 4x4 driving skills.
It is then back to camp for dinner, stories around the campfire and then bed. The emphasis is on practical day-to-day experiences in the bush. The daily outings are flexible and may focus on specific subjects such as animal tracks and tracking, birds, plant identification or animal behaviour, or may involve game viewing and learning about the ecosystem in general.
The advantage of the courses is that they are conducted in the middle of magnificent wilderness areas where students are given the opportunity to find out what it is really like to live in the African wilderness in the midst of wild animals and far-removed from the trappings of modern society.
The instructors:
The course instructors have been around for a long time. Apart from other factors, they are selected based on the number of years of experience that they have had in the guiding industry. The company has been involved in community training with the Africa Foundation and the Makuleke Community, ensuring that local people living on the borders of the national parks gain access to training which will ultimately provide them with job opportunities.
The company has conducted training programmes for top tourism operators such as Wilderness Safaris, Tanzania Wildlife Safaris, KZN Wildlife, Heritage Group and various privately-owned game lodges in southern Africa.
Group Size:
The number of students is limited on each course to a total maximum of 20, with a maximum of 10 students for each instructor. This ensures that the students get personal attention at all times.
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