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12/12/2022

What is it like to be a Field Ranger Trainer?

By John MakgokaOn 3 October 2022, the Field Ranger Advanced Course started at Bahnine National Park (BNP) in Mozambique. The management team at the park were hospitable and we were looking forward to begin training. Thirty current rangers attended the course in total. The first group consisted of 16 people and the second 14 with...
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12/12/2022

Braveheart Ranger Leadership Development Course

By Altin Gysman – Head: Protected Area Integrity/African Field Ranger Training ServicesThe fifth Braveheart Ranger Leadership Development Course, which was the last course for 2022, concluded with great success.  Eighteen (18) students from different areas/organisations  including Mpumalanga Tourism Parks Agency (MPTA), Waterberg and Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF) were represented during the three-week course. ...
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12/12/2022

Banhine Eco Ranger Training 

By Pieter Nel – Senior Trainer On Friday, 21 October Geraldine Sibuyi and I left for Banhine National Park in Mozambique to conduct Eco Ranger training.  It was with a sense of trepidation that we turned off the tarred road at Moucoumbe. The sand road had very little signage to indicate if we were on the...
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12/12/2022

A collaborative visit to MMWCA, Kenya 

By Pieter Nel, Senior Trainer  One of the Tusk Collaboration grants awarded to College was used to assess how two training providers, the College and the Masai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA), can best collaborate in future endeavours, focusing on our Eco Ranger programme. This programme promotes training for cattle herders within communities in order...
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12/12/2022

Round up from our Student and Programme Support Department

The last quarter of the year always seems to be the busiest for our Student and Programme Support team. As a core department within the College, we provide services and support to other units. This time of the year it’s always all hands-on-deck for the College and its staff. Our intrepid intern Risuna Mashele has...
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12/12/2022

Certification and the ins and outs thereof 

The Certification policy describes the process of Certification as it relates to the successful completion of National Certificates, Advanced Certificates, Diplomas and Institutionally Accredited programmes by students of the SAWC. The Quality Management System of the SAWC maintains the integrity of the training and assessment processes, and the Certification policy supports these processes. Furthermore, it...
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12/12/2022

Changes are afoot in our Responsible Resource Management Team

In December we say farewell, or rather ‘see you later’ to Dr Cleo Graf, who has decided to take some time out to spend time travelling and exploring with her family. Cleo will still be working with the College on projects as a service provider, while she travels with her husband and two children. Cleo...
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Regenerative Land Management Project – Applied Learning Department

With the coinciding crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and human population growth the planet needs production systems that increase usable productivity while maintaining the services the environment provides. There is also an urgent need to recover services and biodiversity that have been lost through poor land management/use.The philosophy behind Regenerative/Holistic Planned Grazing is that...
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06/12/2022

AGAINST ALL ODDS

This past week saw an unprecedented 300 people attending the graduation of the Southern African Wildlife College’s Natural Resource Management students, and this with a limitation on numbers. Fitting in with the theme “Against all Odds”, the College hosted two graduation ceremonies on 30 November and 1 December respectively. This meant that the 2020 and 2021...
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