Wildlife Tracking Course - Botswana

only  £2150

Wildlife Tracking Course

Ref:

GYC 1166454

Countries:

Botswana

Duration:

from 2 weeks

  

more info:

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This placement would suit:

Anyone wanting a really ‘wild’ experience in the African bush!

 

Duration details:

A two week course which can either be a stand alone or done with another conservation placement for a longer trip.

 

    

Product Details

Held in the stunning Botswana wilderness, the Wildlife Tracking Course is an opportunity for you to experience the thrill of tracking Africa’s big game while living in a raw and wild environment!

You will learn how to be safe in the bush and how to find animals without impacting on the natural ecosystem in which they (and you for the 2 weeks!) live.

An intensive experience, the tracking course requires you to be fit and to have a good level of stamina, but affords you the chance to get close to animals such as elephants and hyenas on ground level!

Course Outline

• Lectures and practical on safety
• Introduction to tracking techniques
• Track identification, animal behaviour, movements, social structures etc
• Survival techniques and applications
• Practical test on track identifications in the field

• Introduction, techniques and application of tracking and trailing an animal on foot from the tracks and signs that it has left behind
• Each individual will lead the group on a trail of a high profile animal - a full day is allocated to each individual. Followed on the last night by a braai (barbeque) and celebration

Requirements

Participants must have a good level of physical and mental fitness to join this course, and ACE staff will talk to you about this on application. Although often at a slow pace, the walking is long and arduous and involves a lot of climbing up rocky outcrops. If participants are deemed not to be fit enough part-way through the course, they will be asked to join the Tuli Conservation Project for the rest of their stay.

IT WILL BE A VERY DEMANDING COURSE REQUIRING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STAMINA

Location and Accommodation

We will drive into the bush with all participants, staff and all our required equipment for the two weeks and set up camp in a predetermined location. Participants will assist in the set-up of the camp, which will comprise of 2-man dome tents. Sleeping mats, bags and liners will be provided. Water will be obtained from a water trailer that we take in with us and lighting will be limited to paraffin lamps and torchlight.

Ablution facilities will be very basic and will comprise of long-drop toilets and cold bucket showers in summer and fire-heated water in winter. Nights may be spent out on the ground with a watch fire and no sleeping materials if we cannot make it back to the camp by nightfall during a trailing exercise.

Accreditation

only  £2150

African Conservation Experience

African Conservation Experience has been sending volunteers to Africa for almost a decade and is the original, most experienced organisation for conservation placements in southern Africa. We can offer you the chance to work on game and nature reserves alongside conservationists, zoologists, wildlife vets and reserve managers.