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03/12/2018, ,

News from the Southern African Wildlife College Trust

Visit to the College The Trust was thrilled to have a number of our donors join us in November for two extraordinary days at the College, to attend the “highlight event of the year”, the Natural Resource Management student dinner, followed by the graduation ceremony the next day. A sense of anticipation hung in the...
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03/12/2018, ,

College attends prestigious Royal Foundation event

Southern African Wildlife College CEO Theresa Sowry recently attended the annual dinner of The Royal Foundation. Hosted by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the private function was at Victoria House in London. Since Prince Harry’s visit to the College at the end of 2015, The Royal Foundation has...
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30/11/2018, ,

Bird data collection gains ground

In 2018, many of our Higher Education and Training students have been involved in collecting valuable bird observation data in and around the campus. This is of course a really important form of environmental monitoring, where we can undertake presence and absence studies, but, also track changes over time. With the ever-present and emerging threat...
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30/11/2018, , ,

Earth Overshoot Day the earliest ever

Earth Overshoot Day was on 1 August this year. Throughout the world this day is remembered as the day we finish our allocated budget of natural resources for the year and begin operating on a deficit budget, because we have gone beyond ecological limits. Just like a bank account in red, we are on ecological...
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30/11/2018, ,

Field news – November 2018

The last few months have been rather strange weather wise. Normally we start to experience a few warm days during September with a light rain shower here and there, so when October arrives we  already have a slightly elevated humidity factor. This coupled with blistering hot days makes for a rather uncomfortable time in the...
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29/11/2018, ,

SAWC Casual Day 2018

The Southern African Wildlife College has an ethos of inclusion of all people, of all ages, ethnicities, religions, and abilities. Launched in 1995, Casual Day is an awareness and fundraising campaign benefiting persons with disabilities. Each year on the first Friday of September, South Africans are encouraged to go to work or school dressed differently...
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29/11/2018, ,

A new approach to “Youth Access” in the conservation sector

During 2018, we spent a lot of time obtaining stakeholder feedback on the kinds of programmes we could offer that would lead to job placement. This was largely as a result of the fact that a number of students who completed our SADC programme in 2017 were yet to be absorbed into the industry. In...
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29/11/2018, ,

Mayibuye Project – An Overview 2018

Having established a formal relationship with the Mayibuye Game Reserve (Mayibuye Community Trust specifically) in October 2017, the RISE Unit, which falls under the Community, Youth and Development department, has used a ‘learning-by-doing’ approach at the Mayibuye project site, testing methods relating to stakeholder engagement, governance and leadership in line with project objectives. This was...
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29/11/2018,

“When the tekkie hits the tar…”

Looking back on this year of 2018, we have had the privilege of engaging with people from all over the world who have visited our college from both foreign and local universities. This included visits by student groups with their faculty from five different continents – Asia, Africa, Australia, America and the Europe. These groups...
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