Our Vision:
To provide a suitable venue where nature loving University and College students may come to do their prescribed internships and the practical part of their education in accordance with the training objective determined by their respective Teaching Institutes, further we endeavor to provide the students with an affordable opportunity to gain experience by applying his/her theoretical knowledge, practically under supervision of a Wild Life and Conservation Educator in the greater Kruger National Park.
Our Mission:
Enhancing Eco Conservation through Education and Research.
Proposed research topics:
- Plan and build a Game farm including management and marketing plans
- Breeding project for endangered species
- Rehabilitation centre for injured and or orphaned animals
- Ecological impact the over population of elephants have on vegetation
- Prey versus predator
- Soil versus vegetation
- Animal behaviour
Plan, design, budget for, build, populate (animals and staff) maintain, manage and market the different commercial possibilities to local and over seas markets of, a 5000 Hectare game farm.
Attention can also be given to develop an Endangered specie breeding project or a Rehabilitation center for injured and orphaned animals.
A Game Farm offers many fields of research from which the student and Teaching Institute can select a suitable assignment.
Duration of the Placement:
The recommended stay for this training is a
minimum of
two months or as their Institutes prescribe.
Supervisors/Educators:
Adele de Beer & Laetitia Cronjé (Wild life and conservation educators) will:
- Lecture on a daily basis
- Assist with research work and assignments
- Supervise and monitor the training programme
- Stay in contact with the respective Teaching Institute.
- Finally, assess the student's work where necessary.
