Programmes and Courses
EcoTraining offers a variety of educational wilderness immersion courses for anyone one who wants to learn more about guiding and the natural world around us. Choose from the various courses we have to offer, whether it be a specialist career course or a shorter wildlife course, all our programmes will help improve your knowledge and leave you feeling reawakened and reconnected.
Career Courses
EcoTraining Professional Field Guide
If you love the idea of taking safari lodge guests from all over the world out on walking and game drive safaris into Africa’s wild places, finding wildlife for them, and teaching them fascinating facts about the animals and ecosystems, then EcoTraining’s Professional Field Guide course is for you.
Next Starting Date
August 1, 2020All Camps
EcoTraining Field Guide (FGASA & CATHSSETA)
Every minute of your 55 days on this course will be a learning experience, as you are constantly exposed to the bush. It covers a broad spectrum of subjects, using a mix of formal lectures as well as time out in the field.
Next Starting Date
April 9, 2020Selati & Karongwe
EcoTraining Trails Guide (FGASA)
Explore the wilderness of the majestic Makuleke Concession in the famed Kruger National Park or Mashatu in the Northern Tuli Reserve in Botswana on foot, on a 28-day Trails Guide course (FGASA-accredited), where the majority of your time will be spent conducting bush walks in big game country.
Next Starting Date
June 2, 2020Mashatu Game Reserve
EcoTraining Kenya Field Guide (FGASA & CATHSSETA)
Every minute of your 55 days on this course will be a learning experience, as you are constantly exposed to the bush. It covers a broad spectrum of subjects, using a mix of formal lectures as well as time out in the field.
Next Starting Date
October 6, 2020Mara Training CentreWildlife Courses
Safari Guide
This is EcoTraining's well-known 28-day Safari Guide training course, aimed at those wishing to experience a bush holiday, while also learning about the environment they are in. A month of living and learning in nature at our wilderness camps (Selati and Karongwe in South Africa, and Mashatu in Botswana) will provide you with the practical and theoretical knowledge of the natural environment.
Next Starting Date
May 6, 2020Mashatu Game Reserve
EcoQuest
The EcoQuest course (seven or 14 days) is designed to provide a learning experience, and incorporates certain aspects of our Safari Guide course. It is aimed at those who are looking for a more in-depth bush experience, but who do not necessarily have four weeks to break away from work obligations.
Next Starting Date
April 6, 2020Selati Game Reserve
EcoTracker Course: Animal tracks and tracking
EcoTracker offers you the ultimate wilderness immersion. Through the ancient art and science of animal tracking – possibly the world's oldest – you will connect with the iconic places and wildlife of Africa on foot.
Next Starting Date
June 29, 2020Mashatu Game Reserve
Birding in the Bush
Birding as a hobby has grown tremendously in popularity in the past decade, and these days visitors to the African wilderness areas want to do more than simply spot large game. Owing to this development on the ecotourism front, we have developed our seven-day Birding in the Bush course.
Next Starting Date
April 19, 2020Makuleke Concession
Wilderness Photography
Taking great wildlife photos is not as easy as it looks. Not only does one need creativity and technical knowledge, but also knowledge and understanding of one’s subject matter.
Next Starting Date
September 19, 2020Makuleke Concession
Wilderness Trails Skills
This unique six-day course provides a perfect platform for aspirant or qualified guides or nature lovers to discover and reconnect with meaningful wilderness encounters. We firmly believe that the wilderness experience can be an inspiring cornerstone in the lives and careers of all those with a passion for nature and its inhabitants, developing a lifelong culture of conservation.
Next Starting Date
April 4, 2020Makuleke Concession
Matric EcoQuest
Go on an adventure safari with a group of your best friends… a fresh, safe, exhilarating alternative to celebrating the end of your school life together. Based in a beautiful big five game reserve, with a comfy tented camp as your base, embrace the celebrations with a whole lot more meaning, adventure, memories and experiences.
Next Starting Date
December 2, 2020Karongwe Game Reserve
EcoTraining Customised Programmes
EcoTraining offers customised courses for agents and tour operators to assist them with the planning of educational safari itineraries catered for small group departures, alumni travel, private celebrity travel, summer schools, and university study abroad programmes.
