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21/08/2018, ,

Determination helps overcome challenges

An article by George Kamuzhu Phiri, SAWC SRC President, on the Work Integrated Learning component of the Higher and Advanced Certificate programmes.                   Going back home after being away for three months is always a happy moment for every student. However on our last day we were cordially...
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21/08/2018, ,

Students make good progress during work integrated learning

Students from the Higher Education and Training courses in Nature Conservation all returned from their workplaces to start their second semester modules on 23 July 2018. This, after they have spent three months back at their workplaces completing the practical component of their studies called Work Integrated Learning (WIL). During WIL students are expected to...
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21/08/2018, ,

Smart learning and conservation

The Applied Learning Department at the College, focuses very strongly on practical hands on learning methodologies, whilst testing and using newly developed tools to train our students. For example, with the advent of smart phone applications and environmental monitoring tools, conservation leaders can now observe, record and analyse data for improved conservation management and of...
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21/08/2018, ,

The growing role of ITC in Wildlife Conservation

Although ICT is not often associated or mentioned in the various conversations around wildlife conservation, or conservation in general, it nevertheless plays a major role both in the establishing, and maintaining of any undertaking concerned with conservation. This is also the case here at the Southern African Wildlife College where it is our mission to...
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21/08/2018, ,

Bootcamp for trainers

“So if the eyes are milky or you have to scrape the carcass off the road surface, you should seriously consider NOT consuming the roadkill,” said one of the trainers while presenting his lecture. “Let us look at WHY we should use warm water when preparing the perfect cup of coffee, using the Bialetti filter...
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02/08/2018, ,

Statement – Southern African Wildlife College Board of Directors

Following the memorial service of Mr. Ernest Mokganedi held at the Department of Environmental Services in Pretoria yesterday (1 August 2018), the Board of the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) would like to pay its further respects to its fellow Board member. “The SAWC Board has lost one of its key members. We were extremely...
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30/07/2018, ,

Tribute to Ernest Mokganedi

It is with an extremely heavy heart that the Southern African Wildlife College advises of the loss of our fellow Board Member and friend, Mr. Ernest Mokganedi who was tragically killed in a motorbike accident over the weekend (Saturday 28th July, 2018). Ernest, Director of Transfrontier Conservation Areas in the Department of Environmental Affairs in...
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29/06/2018, ,

June update from the field

Autumn has given way to winter with a sudden transformation of the bushveld, a very different picture to that of only a few months ago. The bush is still filled with a wide range of autumn colours as the Tamboti groves change to shades of orange and the Kiaat trees  to hues of ochre as...
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29/06/2018, ,

Increase in white-headed vulture activity

Our patrol flights do not only provide valuable data on large species such as rhino and elephant, but also other threatened and vulnerable species such as vultures and large raptors. Over the past year we have picked up an increasing trend in white-headed vulture activity in the region. This is very exciting news as these...
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