Nature Guiding as a Career

Nature Guiding as a CareerBhejane Nature Training

Consider a career in Wildlife Tourism

What you can doWhat you can experience

Professional Field Guide

Dangerous Game Trails Guide

Specialist Birding or Butterfly Guide

Marine GuideExpedition Leader

Unbelievable African wildlife

Leading people through wilderness areas.

A closer look at things most other people never get to experience

The career of a lifetime!

Upmarket lodgesNational parksPrivate ReservesFreelance guidingLarge Safari

Operators

Professional Nature GuidePossible jobs include working at:

Lead trails through areas with potentially dangerous game.

Enjoy a career that offers a taste of real Africa – rugged and untamed.

Dangerous Game Trails Guide

Specialist Birding or Butterfly Guide Want to earn more?

Specialise in teaching tourists about the unique

smaller animals of the African Continent.

You can specialise in any field.

ReptilesTreesWild FlowersDangerous Game

Specialisations

Enjoy a career that allows you to guide both on land, under water and around SA’s spectacular coast!

Marine GuideHave the best of both.

Scuba Dive training at Sodwana Bay

Getting qualified is as simple as completing a 1 year Professional Field Guide Training Programme.You will qualify with the

basic skills to register as a legal guide in SA.

You will be taught how to continue your training in a specialist field.

You will get the opportunity for first hand experience during a 6 month placement.

Who can apply?Aspiring Nature Guides

Gap Year Students

Wildlife Enthusiasts

YOU

Getting qualified

ZululandNorthern KwaZulu

Natal South Africa

The Training Venue

The only region where you can observe the Big 5, go Tiger-fishing, see Leatherback Turtles hatching, Dive the Coral Reefs of the Sub-Tropical East Coast and Track Black Rhino in the space of a few days.

College Life @Bhejane Nature Training

Awareness through

Wilderness

Bhejane Nature Training

• 6 month / 1 year Professional Field Guide Level 1 Course

•You will qualify with:•FGASA Level 1•FGASA Back-up Trails Guide (subject to conditions)•FGASA Marine Guide (Subject to conditions)•PADI Diving Certificate (Subject to conditions)•Wilderness First Aid Certificate (Subject to Conditions)

Programmes are endorsed by the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa.

Register now for February 2010, May 2010 or February 2011

What will you do?Your training will

cover:Practical guiding

skillsRifle handlingUse of equipmentDriving skillsTracking SkillsCommunication &

InterpretationField Identification

of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, plants and trees.

6 month practical placement at one of the lodges or reserves we are associated with. (This is subject to your passing the necessary modules for placement)

Thanda Private Game Reserve

Bayete Zulu Boutique Lodge

Leopard MountainWhite Elephant

Safari Lodge

Practical Experience

The College is situated on the Thanda Private Game Reserve in Northern Zululand, South Africa . The reserve falls within the Maputaland Global Biodiversity Hotspot and is regarding as an area of outstanding biodiversity.

The Reserve is home to the Big 5 (which includes Elephant, Buffalo, Rhino, Leopard and Lion. Cheetah, Wild Dogs and Black Rhino also roam freely on the reserve.

The reserve is situated between the Zululand towns of Mkuze and Hluhluwe and is surrounded by private reserves and national parks such as Mkuze Game Reserve, Hluhluwe Umfolozi, Zuluand Rhino Reserve and the Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park.

The Training Venues . . .

Kosi Bay just south of the Mocambique Border.

Cape VidalSodwana Bay, a globally sought after diving

destination with pristine reefs and diverse coastal forest.

Marine Guide Training takes place at

Partners and Associates

Field Guides Association of SA

Thanda Private Game Reserve

Change your lifeChange our worldBecome a part of the Zululand Conservation LegacyContact us for course and

registration information:

info@bhejanenaturetraining.com

www.bhejanenaturetraining.com