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Course Title:   Field Guide 1 Year (FGASA I; II Theory; Trails Guide)

This comprehensive and unique ONE YEAR course has been designed to supply the safari industry with high calibre FGASA and THETA qualified professional Field Guides. This course is not only available to people wishing to enter the industry as field guides, but for anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of the African bush.

In this ONE YEAR course, a full 6 months of theoretical and practical training with our highly qualified instructors in which you will complete various separate certificate courses should get you well prepared for six months of actual nature guiding at lodges with guests. We will place you at these lodges so that you can work with experienced guides to learn from them and to learn on the job so that at the end of the year’s course, you are not only qualified but also experienced.

By this time you will be a prime candidate and should be snapped up immediately by a lodge for a guiding job. This lodge attachment component will give you the practical experience and enable you to apply the theory you learnt in the training at our camps. It also enables you to build up your one year of experience that is required by FGASA to be assessed for your FGASA Level 2 field guiding exams.

What qualifications will you graduate with?

1. Basic First Aid
2. Field Guide FGASA Level 1 Theory Exam (subject to 75% pass mark)
3. Field Guide FGASA Level 1 Practical assessment (subject to passing the theory and being deemed competent on an assessment drive)
4. SASEETA Proficiency Certificate – Rifle (qualification - rifle handling only)
5. FGASA Trails Guide: Advanced Rifle Handling and View Potentially Dangerous Animals
6. FGASA Level 2 Theory - work book completed and exam written
7. Local Bird Specialist or Birding Specialist (FGASA)
8. Tracking qualification (Level 1, 2 or 3) (optional)
9. Wilderness medicine
10. Guiding experience logged towards FGASA Level 2 practical assessment

Why choose EcoTraining's One Year Course?

You will live and walk amidst the spectacular wildlife of the African bush for one year - for the first half of the year you will live and learn at our camps and for the remainder of the year you will work at a Safari Lodge as a trainee. Training at all 3 camps presents a constantly stimulating environment to learn in – you will be exposed to diverse ecological and geological terrains; landscapes; wildlife species; climates and more. Our two instructors with many years of guide training experience and time in the bush will also provide different ways of training and guiding which enhances your overall training experience. For parts of the course you will train in our Kruger Camp in the Makuleke concession which is a highlight for all our students. The Makuleke concession is not accessible to the ordinary tourist visiting the park. This area is certainly the wildest and most remote part of the Kruger National Park and offers varied vegetation, great wildlife viewing, the best birding in all of the Kruger National Park and is filled with folklore of the early explorers and ancient civilizations. Certification and Accreditation of course This Field Guide Courses is accredited by FGASA who have THETA accreditation so this means our courses adhere to THETA standards. For this course only, we will assist you by registering you for EcoTraining FGASA, THETA and eventually DEAT.

Course Title 2 Field Guide 1 Year (FGASA I; II Theory; Trails Guide) Classification Environment & Nature -> Field and Nature Guide Course Requirements Price Notes Dates 2009: 16 February to 7 December 2009 10 August 2009 to 01 June 2010 19 October 2009 to 14 September 2010 Includes practical work placement

Course Information Location Limpopo - Kruger National Park Course Type Customised Start Dates Various Length of Course 1 Year Final Registration Date On availability and payment

Contact Details Name EcoTraining Phone +27 13 745 7777 Email enquiriesecotraining.co.za