Welcome to Africa Nature Training!

Calling all prospective field guides, trails guides and nature enthusiasts…

Are you wanting to pursue a career as a field guide or are you simply keen to learn more about the amazing natural world in which we live?

From our camp in the heart of Zululand – Intibane, Thanda Safari – a 14,500 ha Big-Five Reserve – we offer courses and experiences that provide field guides, nature enthusiasts, gap year students – in fact anyone looking for an awesome bush experience – the opportunity to improve their knowledge whilst immersing themselves in the magic of the African bushveld.

Covid-19 announcement

Due to the current pandemic we are unsure when we will be able to run our two-month residential courses again. Why not enroll on our distance learning course instead, and keep yourself busy and bush-wise during lockdown 🙂

Traditionally people associate South African game reserves with the Greater Kruger National Park. Whilst this is unquestionably an area offering remarkable wildlife experiences there is a much lesser known part of the country with a huge conservation history. Just 40km south of Thanda Safari is the oldest proclaimed game reserve in Africa – Hluhluwe-iMfolozi – the same reserve from where Dr Ian Player started ‘Operation Rhino. This project was responsible for saving the white rhino from extinction in the 1970’s. Furthermore a mere 60km east of Thanda Safari is Isimangaliso World Heritage site. Isimangaliso (Zulu for miracle) was proclaimed a world heritage site in 1999 – the first in South Africa – because of the rich biodiversity, unique ecosystems and natural beauty occurring in a relatively small area.

Intibane, Thanda Safari has the best of all worlds – stunning savanna and wildlife as well as the St Lucia estuary, the Indian Ocean and the unique and rare Sand Forest around False Bay in close proximity. The ultimate training and safari venue!

***“In the end we conserve only that which we love,* We love only that which we understand, We understand only that which we are taught”
*Baba Dioum – Senegalise Ecologist***

Field Guide Courses & Educational Vacations

On hold

Gap Year Programmes

Join us for your gap year to learn about our amazing wildlife whilst also having the opportunity to participate in research and community projects with our partner, Ulwazi Research. Meet like-minded people and have loads of fun in the sun!

Free

Kids go Wild

Calling all nature loving kids. Check out Codex - the enviroant's - antics. Join him for adventures in nature, discovering cool facts on all sorts of wildlife topics. Work towards a Junior Ranger Certificate to show everyone how much you care about nature.

Price on request

Distance Learning Practical

This course is suited to anyone who would like to spend two weeks learning about the wonders of African Wildlife as well as our Correspondence Course theory students who are wanting to obtain a Guiding qualification.

On hold

Field Guide Course

This course is designed primarily for people who want to qualify and work as a field guide. It is however also suited to researchers, nature enthusiasts, school leavers, gap year students and as an educational vacation for anyone who loves the African bush.

R 4,900