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By: Annie DuPre, FGASA NQF2 and Apprentice Trails Guide We are beyond thrilled to announce a new collaboration between Bushwise Field Guides and the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC). Our two organisations have entered into a symbiotic training agreement, focused on trainer transformation and developing the gold standard for guide training. This agreement kicked off...

BY: Callum Evans Camp manager blogs are written by our current students who each get a chance to lead and manage a group (of their fellow students) for a period of one week. During the fourth off-week of the semester, some of the Bushwise students attended a week-long course on trailing animals at Colin Patrick...

The Bushwise alumni gives his unfiltered take on choosing the road less travelled, and staying focused through a tumultuous time.   BW: I hope you are well. Where in the world are you now? DM: I am quarantined in the capital city (Pretoria), learning Mandarin.   BW: When did you do the Bushwise course?  DM:...

Imagine learning how to navigate using stars to find your way through the savannah. You can on a Bushwise course. Read on to find out more.

What is the study of geology? And how do field guides use geology in the field? Read on for answers to these questions and more.

BY: Tasneem Johnson-Dollie Looking to become a conservationist? Well, getting a feel for the differences between what game rangers and field guides do is a good place to start when planning for a career in conservation.  Yes, field guides and game rangers work at the same establishments, and they may even interact with each other...

By: Sergio Cerrai The dust of the dry winter had settled on the cars parked on campus. This prompted me to wash my car……. and then…… the rains came. What if I had washed my car a few weeks earlier? The overcast sky and rain stayed with us for five days. A river that has...

By: Garrick Stead Becoming a camp manager and overseeing the campus radio is quite a stressful thing for me, yet once I got into it was not bad at all. We need to be comfortable with this sort of responsibility because many lodges need duty managers on a day to day basis. The first two...

BY: Tasneem Johnson-Dollie What’s so special about 17 June? Well it’s the date of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, and we can all get clued up on conservation from this annual reminder.  Keeping track of the causes and impacts of climate change can be tricky on a day-to-day basis. But World Day to...