Giant Sable Conservation Efforts
Found only in central Angola, the giant sable is one of the most impressive but also one of the most critically endangered African antelopes. It was unprotected during the civil war that began in 1975 and only ended in 2002. Government and rebel armies alternately occupied the 8,280 sq km Luando Integral Reserve of the Giant Sable and the 630 sq km Cangandala National Park, 50 km from Malange, the provincial capital. Without a giant sable bull, the sable in Cangandala were doomed to extinction, hybrids or no hybrids.
To read his article further and see the slide show of the operation, go here.
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How can we help you!
With holidays, career breaks or future employment opportunities taking a back-seat, many people are looking towards doing something constructive, affordable and above all for themselves. EcoTraining offers a wide variety of courses to suit many individual needs for now and the future!
Why Choose EcoTraining?
•We’ve been training since 1993 - one of the first organisations to conduct formal training.
•We train in great wilderness areas including the Kruger National Park.
•Our students train while living in the middle of the African wilderness, with wild animals potentially right outside their tents as our canvas tented camps are unfenced.
•We have trained Field Guides for top tourism operators such as Wilderness Safaris, Tanzania Wildlife Safaris, KZN Wildlife, Heritage Group and various privately-owned game lodges in southern Africa.
•and more reasons to choose us…
Join the Butterfly Survey at Makuleke
Let us know if you encounter these butterflies at Makuleke in the Kruger National Park. 79 species were recorded during the last survey, a couple of species that were of interest eluded the team. We need your help in documenting the species below.
It would be great if the presence of the following species can be confirmed for the area, as the current records are either very old, doubtful or based on single records only, which could indicate that the specimens recorded were onlymigrants into the area. The species that would be really great to record again are:
• Acraea acrita (Fiery Acraea)
• Charaxes bohemani (Large Blue Emperor)
• Euxanthe wakefieldi (Forest Queen)
• Cyrestis camillus (African Map Butterfly)
• Dixeia doxo (Black‐veined white)
• Andronymus caesar philander (White Dart)
• Andronymus neander (Common dart or Nomad Dart)
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Conservation and Research Course – 14 Days Mashatu Conservation and Research course offers you the opportunity to join a dedicated research project in a new approach to game management. Forming part of the Limpopo-Shashe Trans frontier conservation area, the core study area allows natural migration of game across historically established national borders. This exciting new concept in wildlife management creates a need for volunteers to assist in research of populations moving through this vast wilderness. Educational modules will be included in the form of lectures and daily drives and walks, projects and reserve work. Tuli and Mashatu that forms part of Tuli is vast and not a lot is known about its wildlife, thus has not been studied extensively. Link in with researchers in the area and help collect data and share knowledge of the area. Lecturers will provide insight to many of your conservation questions while practical exercises and contact with researchers on the ground will provide great insight into the subject matter. EcoTraining instructors will also be on hand to answer questions on various other subjects and encounters in the bush: Cost: We have chosen not to put our rates here as they vary for each camp. Please contact us for course rate
Venue: Mashatu Camp
This course is run on the same principles as the 14 day version of this course; it is however shortened for those travellers that do not have 14 days available to their disposal. You will learn about the behaviour and identification of many of the insects, spiders, scorpions, other small creatures and birds in our ecosystems. Then you learn about the underlying elements that support this amazing variety of life such as the geology, soils, plants and climate.
Cost: We have chosen not to put our rates here as they vary for each camp. Please contact us for course rate
Venue: Kruger Makuleke Camp, Karongwe Camp and Mashatu Camp
Bush Skills Course – 4 days Trained lecturer and survival experts will teach you everything you need to know to survive in the African bush. Training takes place in unfenced camps in game reserves in the Lowveld area. Understand how to use nature to your advantage - Where and how to find food, how to overcome being lost in the bush and how to build a shelter, learn tracker skills and situational awareness in the bush. Towards the end of the course you and your teammates will be put to the test during a makeshift survival scenario. The Lecturer will watch the team for safety reasons, as you use your new found knowledge to handle the situation. So you may not be Ray Mears but by the time you leave the EcoTraining Camp you will be able to light fires, find water and fend for yourself! Some of the topics that will be covered:
Cost: We have chosen not to put our rates here as they vary for each camp. Please contact us for course rate
Venue: Karongwe Camp and Selati Camp
This course follows the same modules as the 4 day course, however, it is aimed at those that are looking for a more in depth experience and more information per topic. Trained lecturer and survival experts will teach you everything you need to know to survive in the African bush. Training takes place in unfenced camps in game reserves in the Lowveld area. Understand how to use nature to your advantage - Where and how to find food, how to overcome being lost in the bush and how to build a shelter, learn tracker skills and situational awareness in the bush. So you may not be Ray Mears but by the time you leave the EcoTraining Camp you will be able to light fires, find water and fend for yourself! Some of the topics that will be covered:
Cost: We have chosen not to put our rates here as they vary for each camp. Please contact us for course rate
Venue: Mashatu Camp
About your instructor – Jonathan Leeming
Cost: We have chosen not to put our rates here as they vary for each camp. Please contact us for course rate
Venue: Karongwe Camp, Selati Camp and Mashatu Camp
Biomimicry – 7 days WHAT IS BIOMIMICRY? Organisms and ecosystems face the same challenges that we humans do, but they meet those challenges sustainably. The premise of biomimicry is that Life has been performing design experiments in Earth's R&D lab for 3.85 billion years and what is flourishing on the planet today are the best ideas - those that perform well in context, while economizing on energy and materials. Whatever the design challenge, the odds are high that one or more of the world's 30 million creatures has not only faced the same challenge, but has evolved effective strategies to solve it. The selective pressure placed on all natural life forms minimizes and removes failures. Organisms are the consummate physicists, chemists, and engineers, and ecosystems are economies beyond compare. They can provide us with innovative and progressive solutions to the design, engineering and other challenges that we now face: energy, food production, climate control, benign chemistry, transportation, packaging, and more. The vision is to create products, processes, organizations, and policies—new ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul. "Doing it nature's way" has the potential to change the way we grow food, make materials, harness energy, heal ourselves, store information, and conduct business. About your instructor – Claire Janisch Cost: We have chosen not to put our rates here as they vary for each camp. Please contact us for course rate Venue: Makuleke Camp |
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