June 2019 marks a significant milestone for the Southern African Wildlife College’s K9 Unit: over 100 arrests since February 2018 when the packs went operational! Working in close collaboration with partners and law enforcement officials in the Greater Kruger area, the unit’s involvement in the apprehension of over 100 poachers in the past sixteen months...Read More
At an historic meeting on 2 May 2019, at the College of African Wildlife Management Mweka (CAWM) in Tanzania, CAWM and the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC), pledged to work together to find appropriate and scalable solutions to the conservation of African wildlife through capacity building and development. Formalised by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...Read More
The Southern African Wildlife College Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of Fundisile Mketeni as the new chair taking over from Dr. Bartholomeu Soto from May 2019. Mketeni, Chief Executive Officer of South African National Parks, holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Management with 30 years of experience in the field of Environmental...Read More
The Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) and the Government of Zambia, acting through the Ministry of Tourism and Arts (MOTA), recently signed a memorandum of understanding to formalise their collaboration to provide world-class conservation education, training and skills development in southern Africa. The MoU sets out a broad framework within which the parties seek to...Read More
From the Editor “We’ve had an exceptionally busy start to the year, with a highlight being the arrival of our new Natural Resource Management students! It’s always exciting to know that by the end of the year, we’ll have helped equip conservation professionals from across Africa with the skills they need to tackle the challenging issues...Read More
The Sustainable Use and Guiding department kicked off the year with our planned NQF 2 Dangerous Game Site Guide course on 15 January. As is custom each student got issued his/her “rifle” on 16 February after induction. This is a one-meter-long length borehole pipe that is painted green with one end sporting a bright red...Read More
The Youth Access: Conservation and Environmental Education Bridging Programme was first piloted at the Southern African Wildlife College in 2010 with funding received from the Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust. Since then, this programme has become one of the College’s flagship youth programmes. In 2019 we are very happy to announce that we will again be...Read More
Our classrooms are becoming spaces where community and conservation leaders are learning together. Our RISE unit’s innovative approach of extending training beyond boundaries by bringing community and conservation representatives into the same learning space, resulted in the development of two new courses i.e. Stakeholder Engagement and Governance in Conservation. Both these courses focus on the...Read More
The College’s short course offerings have diversified over the past couple of years. Every department has in some way taken on board the short courses related to their own field of expertise and are in the process of expanding and adapting the current training materials available and developing new materials that cater for the rapid...Read More
The lowveld is well known for its very hot summers with average day time temperatures well into the 30 degree Celsius and even topping 40 degrees every now and then. This past Summer has however been one for the books. We had more days hitting 40 degrees over November and December than any other year...Read More
