By Sboniso Ryan Phakathi The Community-Led Conservation Practices thematic area continues to advance innovative, people-centred approaches to conservation education, with a strong focus on experiential learning, youth development, and community empowerment across Southern Africa. Conservation Coaching Programme in Botswana Two members of the SAWC Coaching Conservation (CC) team travelled to Maun, Botswana (8–21 March 2026) to deliver a Train-the-Trainer programme for the Coaching...Read More
By Scott Yammin, Precious Malapane and Bruce McDonald Building Conservation Leaders Across Borders Through KAZA 2026 The Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) recently hosted the 2026 Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) training programme, proudly supported by the University of Kent in collaboration with the Notsew Orm Sands Foundation for the project: “Burnett Ranger Training”. The programme brought together wildlife field rangers...Read More
What is Biomimicry? Learning from Evolutionary R&D Written by Ronan Carvill Humans, since time immemorial, have looked to nature for ideas and inspiration. Indeed, many of our greatest technological innovations have come from learning and emulating how nature does things. Millions of years of evolutionary research and development tend to produce decent designs! A famous...Read More
