Save the Frogs Day: Why you should hop on board to save the frogs
Original photo: “Frog” by Frank Winkler is licensed under CC BY 2.0 BY: Zaytoen Domingo SAVE THE FROGS! is an amphibian conservation...
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Marketing Team
Apr 13, 20202 min read
The bare necessities for any safari
Photo: Chloé Potier BY: Lindi Hutchinson You are super excited to embark on your first safari game drive in Africa and also an eager...
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Tasneem Johnson-Dollie
Apr 1, 20204 min read
Where can field guides find work experience placements and employment guarantees?
BY: Tasneem Johnson-Dollie Part of Bushwise Field Guides’ promise is their work experience placement and employment guarantees. But why...
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Marketing Team
Mar 27, 20203 min read
How migrating birds impact local birds
BY: Edward Smith, Bushwise trainer Take a moment to think about going a day without seeing, hearing or tasting that one thing that gets...
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Bushwise
Mar 23, 20203 min read
Camp Manager’s Review
BY: Matthew Holland John Hemingway once said, ”if you have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa”. There is nothing like a blanket of...
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Marketing Team
Mar 18, 20203 min read
Why a comprehensive, long term Field Guide course is better
Feature photo by: Benno Klinck BY: Kim van Greunen, Bushwise Sales Manager Before we go into the details it is important to ask yourself...
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Marketing Team
Mar 18, 20206 min read
Why World Meteorological Day 2020 is worth all the fuss
BY: Tasneem Johnson-Dollie How many of us get excited by the thought of World Meteorological Day? While the answer may be “not many”,...
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Marketing Team
Mar 13, 20202 min read
Tracking and rifle handling all in a weeks work
BY: Craig Newton, Bushwise student 2020 Well not only have we come racing to the end of yet another interesting, jam-packed week, but...
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Marketing Team
Mar 11, 20203 min read
Rifle week
By: Andi Dill, Bushwise student 2020 Having just finished a long, arduous but very rewarding week with Colin Patrick, doing track and...
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Zaytoen Domingo
Mar 11, 20204 min read
A day in the life of a field guide
BY: Zaytoen Domingo Have you ever wondered what a wildlife professional does in a day’s work? Let’s talk about a day in the life of a...
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Tasneem Johnson-Dollie
Mar 5, 20205 min read
All you need to know about field guiding and biomes of South Africa
BY: Tasneem Johnson-Dollie A biome is a particular community of fauna and flora that are adapted to their specific natural environment....
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Marketing Team
Mar 4, 20203 min read
The legacy of footprints
BY: Zander, Bushwise student 2020. No matter how fast you are – no one will outrun their past. So make sure the next step you take, adds...
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Bushwise Student
Feb 28, 20202 min read
Tracking with Colin Patrick
BY: Karl Lewinsky, Bushwise student 2020 Our week began by being divided into two groups, track and sign, and rifle handling. My group,...
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Bushwise Trainer
Feb 25, 20202 min read
Always a lesson, never a failure
BY: Jack Hutchinson, Bushwise trainer We had just finished with our sleep out and were on the way back to camp at Toro lodge. We had a...
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Tasneem Johnson-Dollie
Feb 19, 20205 min read
Take a closer look at the different types of dung beetle
By: Tasneem Johnson-Dollie When you think of a dung beetle, a busy black bug scampering across bumpy terrain is probably what springs to...
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Marketing Team
Feb 18, 20202 min read
Action packed start to Semester two on Toro campus
BY: Chloe Potier, Bushwise Student 2020 After a well-deserved rest week, we started our week in-full-force with taxonomy and bird tests....
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Marketing Team
Feb 17, 20204 min read
My best experience as a field guide
By: Gerhard van Niekerk, Head Trainer Whenever we get a new group of students at our Bushwise campus, I will ask them a very specific...
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Zaytoen Domingo
Feb 12, 20203 min read
How the fever tree got its name
Original photo: “Serengeti 24”by Abeeeer is licensed under CC BY 2.0. BY: Zaytoen Domingo Once upon a time, a storm raged fiercely above...
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Bushwise Trainer
Feb 12, 20202 min read
Dung beetle season
BY: Lindi Hutchinson, Bushwise Trainer “I want to see a dung beetle!” An easy request to fulfill in summer after good rains when the...
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Bushwise
Feb 7, 20202 min read
Arrival of the green
Featured photo by Sophie Pyper BY: Edward Smith Between the one hundred millimeters of rain and the summer heat, I don’t know who has...
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