Game Ranger Course Detail

Game Rangers are the custodians of our wildlife areas and are responsible for ensuring that our game and nature reserves are managed in a sustainable manner. For people to understand what a game ranger does, it is very important to understand ecology which is that which we teach in our Field Guide Training. Our Game Ranger Experience will give participants a taste of what it is like to be a game ranger and will focus on some of the more interesting aspects of the job including the counting and monitoring of animals, the maintenance of fences, the supply of water, and how to measure the physical condition of animals.

The difference between a true Game Ranger and a Field Guide:  Please note this to make sure you are attending the right course for the right reasons. A field guide is a person who leads tourists on trips into natural environments. Their job usually relates to ecology and nature. Field guides are open game-viewer vehicle guides in that they spend most or all of their time in wildlife areas and they often combine their driving activities with walking activities.   The main role is to accompany tourists in the bush and to interpret nature in a meaningful and interesting manner. During a field trip you are a guide, teacher, friend, game warden, doctor, and storyteller and sometimes cook for your guests!  The guide should provide interesting information about the environment in such a way that the beauty, joy and wonder of these natural areas are revealed to the guests. Guests should leave with a new awareness of nature and the importance of conservation having had fun developing this awareness.

The term game ranger has, up until recently been used in the safari industry to refer to field guides. Strictly speaking, a game ranger is a person who manages wildlife areas such as national parks and game reserves. His duties usually do not include guiding, but will involve such activities as game counting, fence repairs, anti-poaching work and all that outlined above in this course description.