 Safari
Field Guide
Training, 1 Year |
South Africa
FGASA course
with 6 months Lodge
Placement
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Price
2012: R147, 700 Rand |
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This comprehensive
and unique professional ONE YEAR
safari guide course has been
designed to supply the safari
industry with high calibre
professional Field Guides. However,
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 and perfect for
your gap year adventure too.
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6
January 2012 – 9 November 2012 (FULL,
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5
February 2012 – 22 November 2012
(FULL,
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6
May 2012 – 20 February 2013
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5
July 2012 – 30 April 2013
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3
October 2012 – 31 August 2013
 Please note:
These
courses fill up fast - the courses
have limited spaces and are very
popular!
THEORETICAL COMPONENT (Approx 6
months)
You can graduate with:
- EcoTraining Level 1 exam
- Field Guide FGASA Level 1
Theory (subject to 75% pass
mark)
- Field Guide FGASA Level 1
Practical assessment (subject to
passing the theory and being
deemed competent on a practical
assessment)
- SASSETA Competency Certificate
– Rifle (qualification - rifle
handling only)
- Advanced Rifle Handling
(Basic, Intermediate/back-up,
Advanced/Lead)
- FGASA Trails Guide Back-up
- Birding with Lawson’s Birding
Academy
- Tracking qualification (Level
1, 2 or 3) (optional)
- Wilderness medicine (Level 1
and 2)
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certification and
accreditation
information and subjects
covered, please ask us
for further information.
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LODGE
EXPERIENCE: (Approx 5
months) |
| As part of your
year training, EcoTraining
will assist in placing you
at a lodge in Southern
Africa for a period of
approximately 5 months.
During your lodge placement
you will be expected to
carry out a wide variety of
duties which may or may not
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- General Guiding
Duties (can logged
towards FGASA level 2
practical assessment)
- Assisting in the
bar, serving drinks,
undertaking stock
takes
- Assist with meeting
guest/s at meeting
point/airport,
carrying their luggage
- Housekeeping
- Maintenance
- Reception duties
- Food & Beverage
duties
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the course conducted |
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course is conducted from the
Karongwe camp, on Karongwe
Game Reserve, where the Level
1 FGASA safari guide
training course is
conducted, as well as the
Selati camp on the Selatii
Game Reserve where the local
South African training is
conducted from and also in
the stunning Makuleke camp
where our birding trips and
courses and
trails course is
conducted from. Makuleke is
simply breath taking.
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compliance with the UK
Package Travel, Package
Holidays and Package
Tours Regulations 1992
an insurance policy has
been arranged with
Travel & General
Insurance Company plc,
authorised and regulated
by the Financial
Services Authority, to
protect customers’
prepayments in the
unlikely event of our
financial failure and
paid in respect of:
•
non-flight inclusive
packages commencing and
returning to the UK
• the ground handling
aspects of packages
where the customer is
responsible for
arranging travel to the
destination
offered in this
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this website (subject to
the terms of the
insurance policy), for:
• a
refund of such
prepayments if customers
have not yet travelled,
or
• making arrangements to
enable the holiday to
continue if customers
have already travelled
Customers’
prepayments are
protected by a topp
policy. In the unlikely
event of financial
failure please contact
the claims helpline on 0870
0137 965. A copy
of the policy is
available on request.
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