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12/06/2019, ,

Containers donations enhance College facilities

The Southern African Wildlife College team was excited to receive five containers from Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and three from DP World, global trade enabler, through the support of The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. “These containers are a great addition to our facilities...
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19/03/2019, ,

NQF 2 Dangerous game site guide course 2019

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...
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19/03/2019, ,

2019 Bridging Course

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...
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19/03/2019, ,

Communities and conservationists learning together

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...
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19/03/2019, ,

Short courses address rapid change

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...
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18/03/2019, ,

Field News – March 2019

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...
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08/02/2019, ,

Free-tracking hound project receives the Innovation Award at Kruger National Park’s annual Achievement Awards ceremony

The Southern African Wildlife College’s (SAWC) ‘Free Tracking’ Hound project was awarded the Innovation award at the Kruger National Park (KNP), Marula South regional  Achievement Awards held at the Nombolo Mdhluli Conference Centre at Skukua on 7 February. This award was for a group effort between SAWC; KNP section rangers and KNP airwing to get...
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14/12/2018, ,

Training beyond boundaries

Dear Friends of the College 2018 has been quite a year for us filled with highlights, challenges, introspection, sleepless nights, arduous days out in the field and the ever-inspiring commitment from the team and our supporters. It really does fill me with great pride when I see the progress that has been made across all...
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04/12/2018, ,

Collaboration is key when it comes to development of course content

With thanks to Elna de Beer and Linda Hlengwa for their detailed feedback. During the final Training Advisory Working Group gathering of 2018, the focus was on the review process conducted by the RISE team on the Community Development and Conservation (CDC) module. It was a true “Learning by Doing” approach, as the content of...
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