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 Course
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
October 1, 2021All Camps
Online Field Guide Course
Receive a comprehensive introduction to Field Guiding (FGASA endorsed) from the comfort of your own home on this FGASA online course. Get lectures from a diverse range of highly experienced EcoTraining Instructors who are specialists in various fields within nature and wildlife.
Next Starting Date
January 19, 2022Online Learning
Online Nature Enthusiast Course
Evolve your love for nature on this FGASA Online Nature Enthusiast course. Get lectures from a diverse range of highly experienced EcoTraining Instructors who are specialists in various fields within nature and wildlife.
Next Starting Date
January 26, 2022Online Learning
Online Trails Guide Course
EcoTraining brings you an exciting new learning opportunity - a first in Trails Guiding. A chance to learn how to interact safely with wild animals from the comfort of your home.
Next Starting Date
October 5, 2021Online Learning
EcoTraining Field Guide 35-day Practical Course (FGASA & CATHSSETA)
After the successful completion of the FGASA Field Guide Theory section, the next step is to complete the practical section of the course. Spend 35-days immersed in nature with EcoTraining. Learn through hands-on experiences in the African wilderness for the duration of your course.
Next Starting Date
October 5, 2021Pridelands
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
October 27, 2021Pridelands & PongolaEcoTraining Trails Guide Mentorship Course
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 14, 2022Botswana & 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.
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
September 8, 2022Mara 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 8, 2022Botswana
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
October 7, 2021Makuleke Concession
EcoTracker Course: Animal Monitoring
The course is a comprehensive 55-day, animal tracking course that thoroughly introduces animal tracking and its conservation management applications, immersing participants in actual animal tracking projects.
Next Starting Date
July 4, 2022Pridelands & Selati
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
March 2, 2022Makuleke Concession
Family EcoQuest
he Family EcoQuest is an educational bush program designed to immerse people of all ages into the African wilderness. By providing an inspirational adventurous experience, hearts and minds of both young and old are awakened and slowly yet steadily an army of green warriors is created.
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
October 24, 2021Makuleke Concession
Wilderness Photography Course
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
April 4, 2022Makuleke 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
October 1, 2021Makuleke 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.
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.
Online Courses
Online Field Guide Course
Receive a comprehensive introduction to Field Guiding (FGASA endorsed) from the comfort of your own home on this FGASA online course. Get lectures from a diverse range of highly experienced EcoTraining Instructors who are specialists in various fields within nature and wildlife.
Next Starting Date
January 19, 2022Online LearningOnline Nature Enthusiast Course
Evolve your love for nature on this FGASA Online Nature Enthusiast course. Get lectures from a diverse range of highly experienced EcoTraining Instructors who are specialists in various fields within nature and wildlife.
Next Starting Date
January 26, 2022Online LearningOnline Trails Guide Course
EcoTraining brings you an exciting new learning opportunity - a first in Trails Guiding. A chance to learn how to interact safely with wild animals from the comfort of your home.
Next Starting Date
October 5, 2021Online Learning
Online Birding Enthusiast Course
To become a birder, you don’t need fancy, expensive equipment. You just need your eyes, hearing, and a reasonable understanding of their behaviour. As part of this course, EcoTraining will lay the foundation for a proper understanding of Birds and Bird Behaviour.
Next Starting Date
October 18, 2021Online Learning
Online Trails Enthusiast Course
Discover how to walk safely in the presence of wild animals - from the comfort of your home. For five weeks we will take you on a virtual adventure with live lectures from expert instructors as part of the Trails Enthusiast course.
Next Starting Date
October 5, 2021Online Learning
Scott RamsayOnline Tracking Enthusiast Course
Animal tracking is more complex than most people might think. All aspects of tracking may take years to master but with the correct guidance, you can learn to identify several species’ tracks in a surprisingly short space of time.
Introduction to Biomimicry
Get to grips with fundamental concepts and how to learn from nature.
