The Southern African Wildlife College trains natural resource managers from around Africa in the expertise required to manage protected areas effectively.
By providing training in skills as diverse as anti-poaching techniques, fire management, infrastructure development, geographic information systems and computer skills, and community liaison, the College is passing on the knowledge needed to sustainably conserve national parks and reserves and the animals, plants and people who depend on the parks for survival.
The College was established 12 years ago by WWF-SA and Peace Parks Foundation and to date has trained more than 3000 students who have continued on to become Protected Area Managers, Community Extension Officers, field guides, game rangers, and tourism officials.
The ultimate vision of the College is to train professional natural resource managers to maintain Africa’s biodiversity in a manner that encourages community partnerships and local socio-economic development.
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Phasa Event
PHASA have held a gala fundraising dinner for the past four years, with all money raised through a wide selection of sought after auction items being donated directly to the College for the training of natural resource managers from across southern Africa. The event this year more than doubled the amount raised last year and means that many more students will be able to attend courses at the College and take their new skills and experi-ence back to their protected areas around the region.
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Busy Days
We are now halfway through with our exams, as we are now in the second week of writing and it has been a demanding one as students from both classes (i.e. Higher and Advanced certificate) are spending sleepless nights studying hard, so as to yield exceptional exam outcomes. In these exams, thus when boys could be separated from men, everyone is striving hard to do well. The coming week is the last one for this semester and we are now home sick; we can’t wait to go home and meet with our families and colleagues at our work places. We are also looking forward to working hard on our workplace workbooks and also implementing the concepts from different modules that we covered over the past months practically. Altogether, students had a splendid period and are expecting the same for the few couple of days remaining before closing down.
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