Southern Africa Wildlife College – PACE – Pan African Conservation Education

Conservation education, Makuleke, South Africa
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Conservation education, Makuleke, South Africa

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Conservation education, Makuleke, South Africa

Last month, along with the RISE unit at Southern Africa Wildlife College and VulPro, we organised a series of four webinars to raise Vulture awareness in and around Kruger National Park in South Africa. Vulture numbers in Kruger are low, and poisoning events like one last year that killed 120 birds are having catastrophic impact. The Makuleke Park Manager, Aubrey Maluleke, works alongside SANParks running a community owned, community run area within Kruger National Park. He included his educators in the [...]

By PACE|2023-06-02T14:36:00+01:00June 2nd, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation Education, Education, Makuleke, PACE, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, VulPro, Vultures|0 Comments

PACE at Makuleke, South Africa
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PACE at Makuleke, South Africa

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PACE at Makuleke, South Africa

The PACE coordinator was in Makuleke, Limpopo Province, in South Africa this month. We were invited by the local Makuleke Park Manager, as part of our collaboration with the Southern Africa Wildlife College. The Makuleke people were one of the first communities to win back land that they were forced off of to create Kruger National Park. They now have full ownership, and co-manage their 22,000 ha of land within the KNP, alongside SAN Parks, the National Park authority. The Makuleke [...]

By PACE|2022-12-24T01:02:57+00:00December 24th, 2022|Africa, Community, Conservation, Conservation Education, ESD, PACE, Quality Education, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, Subsistence farming, Teaching conservation, Tree planting, Trees, TUSK, wood energy|0 Comments

New avenues for learning
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New avenues for learning

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New avenues for learning

We are Nathashia Khosa, Siphokazi Sibeko and Bongiwe Hlabane. We are interns in the Southern Africa Wildlife College, in the Community and Youth Development department. Our internship is for a year. We live in a village called Welverdiend in Mpumalanga Province which is next to the Greater Kruger National Park where the college is located. We are one of the communities that was displaced by the park when it was created. This week the PACE coordinator visited. At the beginning of [...]

By PACE|2022-08-27T19:34:14+01:00August 27th, 2022|Africa, Community, Conservation, Conservation Education materials, ESD, PACE, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, TUSK|0 Comments