Comprehensive field guide training

in South Africa

1

Do your FGASA-
endorsed training.

2

Complete your
six-month placement.

3

Get personalised
recruitment services.

4

You’re guaranteed
employment.

Bushwise provides the most comprehensive field guide training courses in South Africa. Our courses are CATHSSETA-accredited and FGASA-endorsed. We have programs for future guides, wildlife enthusiasts, gap year students, and people who just want to escape the hustle and bustle of every day life. Join us for 60 days, six months or a year, as you reconnect with your wild side! Live and learn in the African bush with other students from around the world. Observe and study wildlife in their natural habitat as you earn valuable field guide qualifications. Train with expert, award-winning trainers. You’ll make lifelong friends, see unbelievable things, grow as a person, and boost your CV. What’s holding you back? Join a Bushwise field guide course and answer your wild calling!

big new employment guarantee

Bushwise

guarantees employment

Since 2012, all South Africa graduates of the 50 week FGASA Field Guide course have secured a job offer within six months.

*Not including Covid-19 lockdown period when many companies had hiring freezes.

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Our programs

In-person: Bushwise Professional Field Guide Course
In-person: Bushwise Professional Field Guide Course
23 or 50 weeks
07 Jan
£ 16,750
In-person: Bushwise 60-day Safari Guide course
In-person: Bushwise 60-day Safari Guide course
8.5 weeks
07 Jan
£ 7,895
Online: FGASA Field Guiding Online Course
Online: FGASA Field Guiding Online Course
12 weeks
08 Jan
£ 1,300
Online: FGASA Nature Enthusiast Online Course
Online: FGASA Nature Enthusiast Online Course
8 weeks
08 Jan
£ 720
Online: Introduction to Field Guiding Online Course
Online: Introduction to Field Guiding Online Course
4 weeks
04 Mar
£ 720

Don’t just take our word for it!

I had the most amazing 6 months with Bushwise and cannot praise highly enough the quality of training and friendliness of all the staff. The experience and knowledge I gained goes far beyond what I expected, with trainers passing on information that you cannot possibly learn in textbooks! The Bushwise campus is the perfect balance between a professional training environment and a family atmosphere where you instantly feel safe and comfortable in the bush. As an international wanting to get into the industry there are additional challenges compared to South Africans, but again the support and patience from Bushwise was and still is incredible!

Sophie Pyper United Kingdom, 2020

From the bush

An aardvark in the bush looking right at the camera

Getting To Know The Aardvark

This blog about aardvarks was written by Kathleen-May Wessels. Special topic blogs are written by Bushwise students during their course, and all fa...

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students lookin gout into the dam

Amphibians Disrupting Our Class On Amphibians

This blog was written by Ethan Tooch, Bushwise Professional Field Guide student. Each student takes a turn as camp manager, and writing a blog is p...

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Great big herd of wildebeest grazing on the open plains

Getting To Know The Wildebeest

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