One Year professional Course
EcoTraining
Duration: 1 Year
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(Accomodation, Meals and training included)
Detailed information
| Duration: | 1 Year |
|---|---|
| Price: | Contact us (Accomodation, Meals and training included) |
| Type: | Training |
| Method: | Personalized |
| Accreditation: | EcoTraining/ FGASA/ THETA |
| Prepares for: | THEORETICAL COMPONENT You can graduate with: 1. EcoTraining Level 1 exam 2. Field Guide FGASA Level 1 Theory (subject to 75% pass mark) 3. Field Guide FGASA Level 1 Practical assessment (subject to passing the theory and being deemed competent on a practical assessment) 4. SASSETA Competency Certificate – Rifle 5. Rifle Handling and Safety 6. FGASA Trails Guide Back-up with Advanced Rifle Handling (Basic, Intermediate/back-up, Advanced/Lead) 7. Basic Birding 8. Advanced Birding with Lawson’s Birding Academy 9. Tracking qualification (Level 1, 2 or 3) 10. Wilderness medicine (Level 1 and 2 - First Aid) 11. Navigation and Orientation 12. Telemetry and 4-Wheel Drive for Game Viewing |
| Geared towards: | Field Guides, Safari operators, Lodge staff, Conservation, Wildlife and nature films |
| Requirements: | older than 18 |
| Internship: | Lodge placement is part of the training |
| Students per class: | 20 |
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Course program
This comprehensive and unique ONE YEAR course has been designed to supply the safari industry with high calibre professional Field Guides. However, this course is not only available to people wishing to enter the industry as field guides, but for anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of the African bush or for gap year students.
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Course location
EcoTraining
We started in 1993 with a mission to raise the standard of guiding in Africa. EcoTraining is the oldest field guide training company in Africa.
For more than a decade, we have been sending people of all ages 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 or a field guide.
For more than a decade, we have been sending people of all ages 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 or a field guide.