Become a Game Ranger (Shamwari Game Reserve)

  South Africa

Port Elizabeth

Term: Throughout the year 
Dates: All Year

Description: Have you ever wanted to become a real life Game Ranger? Here is your chance to take the first steps with our FGASA Level 1 Game Ranger Course.

Accredited by F.G.A.S.A. (Field guides association of South Africa), the Level One Ranger Training Course is ideal if you are thinking about pursuing a conservation-orientated career, or if you just want to improve your own personal knowledge of wildlife and game farming. It is a unique opportunity to come face to face with South Africa's wild and diverse fauna and flora. It will impart essential knowledge, life skills and discipline needed to make a professional field guide.

This 6 Week course is situated in the famous Big 5 Game Reserve: Shamwari, located in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It will allow you a first hand and practical insight into becoming a Game Ranger, by completing your level one field guide syllabus which is accredited by the FGASA (Field Guide Association of South Africa). The course is very hands on and is ideal for people that want to take their passion for conservation to the next level. It is also possible to add the 6 week game ranger course on to any of our other conservation or community based programmes.

Highlights: The subjects covered in this course include:

* Field guiding as a Profession
* Creating a guided nature experience
* Geology
* Astronomy
* Weather and Climate
* Ecology
* Taxonomy
* Biomes of South Africa
* Botany and Grasses
* Arthropods
* Amphibians
* Reptiles
* Fish
* Birds
* Mammals
* Animal Behavior
* Introduction to Conservation management and Historical Human habitation
* Hospitality including wine tasting

Cost in US$: GBP2099

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to South Africa Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Worldwide Experience's Mission Statement: Worldwide Experience strives to conserve what man is fast destroying- our own environment. We support conservation and community projects through the recruitment of volunteers from around the world to help work on these diverse, and worthwhile projects. If you are thinking of taking a Gap Year or even just want to get away for your summer break Worldwide Experience will have the placement to suit you. From 2 weeks-3 months, we have projects in South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Sri Lanka, and our experienced team will help place you on a project that will suit your needs the most. Moreover, all the programmes have been set up with the needs and requirements of the placement in mind. This means that whether you're helping to dart a lion, track a cheetah, ID an elephant or teach a class of children, you are making a difference through your work there. Your safety is also in the forefront of our minds, and as a fully bonded tour operator, all volunteers booked to travel through us will be protected by bonding, as required by ABTA and ATOL. We can also organise all flights direct from our UK office.

Year Founded: 2003