4 week Safari Field Guide Course in South Africa
Global Vision International
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Do you want to learn how to be a professional field guide in South Africa’s ‘Big 5’ game reserves? Global Vision International offers a four week Field Guide Course which will give you a fully comprehensive understanding of guiding and tracking in South Africa’s wilderness. This course is run in partnership with South Africa’s most acknowledged and respected safari field guide training school and covers all the topics required for level one of the FGASA programme. Subjects covered include: Ecology, Botany and Taxonomy as well as Tracking, Identification, Weapons Handling and Bush Driving.
Highlights
You will experience life on a big 5 game reserve and be trained in the following to be able to attain your level 1 FGASA:
Basic First Aid; Eco Tourism and Guiding; skills and duties of a professional field guide; Bush navigation and orientation; Ecology; Geology; Soils; Weather; Plant communities; Plant identification and uses; Grasses; Presentation skills; animal tracking; Bird identification and behaviour; Animal behaviour; approaching dangerous game; Setting up a bush camp and sleeping out; bush skills and survival; rifles; Game drive vehicle and basic 4X4 driving; planning of game drives and walks; radio procedures; Reptiles; Amphibians; anticipating animal behaviour; Astronomy; Identification and ecology of Invertebrates; Bush habitat management principles; Communication and facilitation skills; dealing with guests; anti- poaching; Fresh water fish; sustainable development and the wise use of natural resources; eco tourism and local communities; taxonomy; working in the industry and career opportunities.