The Southern African Wildlife College as an institution shared the good news in early-2019, of its partnership with, and participation in the Nedbank-Youth Employment Services (YES) internship programme facilitated through WildTrust. It’s now a year later, and the placements have come to an end. This partnership saw the College joined by fifteen new faces as...Read More
The College, through the RISE unit partnered with the Global Conservation Corps (GCC) early in 2020 for the delivery of GCC’s Future Rangers Programme as a pilot programme to Grade 8 students of two strategic high schools within the SAWC’s core area of community influence. This project is the pilot phase of bringing consistent conservation...Read More
In the previous Bateleur, RISE reported on the partnership between Coaching Conservation, and the Southern African Wildlife College, supported by the Investec Rhino Lifeline. We looked at the impact of 2019 and the hopes of further promoting environmental awareness to inspire a generation of kids who care about themselves, others and the natural environment around...Read More
The Community and Youth Development department started the year on a positive note after receiving 24 students from across the SADC region for the Natural Resource Management, Terrestrial, NQF Level 5 course as well as 23 students from South Africa for the Resource Guardianship NQF level 2 course. The latter course being sponsored by the...Read More
A Q & A on the last field ranger course the College was able to run before all courses at the College ceased as a result of the Covid-19 virus. Field Ranger/Law Enforcement – Armed How many students (men and women) attended the course? Twenty-three (23) students completed the programme: 4 female and 19 males....Read More
SAWC RESPONSE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC –Â UPDATED ACTIONS AS SOUTH AFRICA ENTERS LEVEL 4 LOCKDOWN FROM 1 MAY 2020 The Southern African Wildlife College takes its responsibility to manage the health and safety of its employees and people on campus seriously. The SAWC will always undertake any and all measures to do so, whilst also...Read More
As we work together as South Africans to help slow the spread of Covid-19, we’re sharing some resources created by one of the Southern African Wildlife College’s (SAWC’s) partners, Coaching For Conservation (C4C). In normal circumstances, we work with them to roll out conservation education to kids from communities living close to protected areas. The...Read More
