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Bushwise Field Guides

About

Bushwise Field Guides offers world-class safari guide training in the African bushveld, gap year experiences, wildlife conservation internships, as well as online nature enthusiast and field guiding courses. You can join Bushwise to gain experience with wildlife conservation, start your safari guiding career, or just to have a unique and memorable gap year.

Graduates of our Professional Field Guide program become qualified safari guides, ready to enter this competitive industry with the Bushwise name behind them. Our trainers include experts in entomology, ornithology, conservation, rifle handling, botany and beyond. We also have award-winning trainers on our staff, including Nico Brits, winner of Hospitality and Best on Camera in the Safari Guide of the Year 2022 competition.

Bushwise students continuously receive high pass marks in their FGASA exams. As a result, the Bushwise experience can’t be matched. And that’s why we deliver field guides of the highest caliber.

Reviews

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Shannon
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Best experience of my life!

This will forever be one of the best experiences of my life. This course opened my eyes to so many facets of the guiding industry and I can’t wait to explore them all further. The staff and the trainers will always have a special place in my heart!
I have made friends for life and this experience will continue to shape me as I progress in my career from here. We were able to see so many wonderful wildlife sightings over this time as well. Being able to meet so many experts in the field is something I also really loved.

Pros
  • Range of activities
  • Wildlife viewing
  • Professional development
Cons
  • Isolation
  • Living conditions/maintenance
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daisy
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

field guide 52 week course

the bushwise field guide course is extremely well put together and lead by a team of expert trainers, who are knowledgable and always willing to help. there was such a diverse group of students on my course and we have all made friends for life. i learnt more than i could possibly ever imagine and every day was full of fun activities, from theory lectures, to bird drives, to tracks and signs, to practical observation tests, to walks in the bush. i would recommend bushwise to anyone who wants to start a nature career in africa

Response from Bushwise Field Guides

Hi there,

Thanks so much for your review! I'm thrilled to hear you found the quality of our trainers so great and our course diverse. I'm also happy to hear you feel you learnt so much while still having fun. All the best with your field-guiding career!

Amanda Stone
Head of Alumni Services (Global)

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Trevor
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Trevor's Bushwise review.

The learning experience here at Bushwise was wonderful as well as our trainers were extremely helpful and friendly. Unforgettable experience.
Cannot recommend it enough.
The bush experience here was unreal and beautiful. Bushwise provided me with an unforgettable experience as well as good knowledge I can use as a guide later in my career. Definitely worth spending money and time on if you want to become a field guide one day as well .The exceptional trainers were really good as well other training providers in the course of the program and were extremely helpful .

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Venkat Subramaniam
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Bushwise Field Guides

Am thankful for landing in Bushwise. The quality of their trainers, their program structure and ensuring that every student is taken care of and their personal attention to each of the students is just wonderful. What is being taught in the class is being demonstrated out in the field. The number of game drives each students gets to do is simply awesome. The way the course is structured helps with an overall coverage and helps the students to be excellent field guides in any lodge they may work at.

Pros
  • Knowledge of the trainers
  • Course structure
  • Hands on experience
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Millie
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

I can’t recommend Bushwise more!

I enjoyed every second of my time at Bushwise. The course was fantastic, the trainers were so knowledgable and I have learnt so much during my time there. The campus is beautiful and you get to spend every day in the bush! All the staff are amazing and they worked so hard to make my time there the best it could possibly be. Any issues that came up throughout the course were dealt with immediately and the support offered was amazing. The friends I have made at Bushwise will last a lifetime. I really couldn’t recommend Bushwise more.

Pros
  • Living in the Bush
  • Gain so much knowledge
  • See some amazing sightings!
Response from Bushwise Field Guides

Hi there,

Thank you for this review! I am thrilled to hear you found the course fantastic and the staff supportive. All the best with your career in conservation!

Amanda Stone
Head of Alumni Services (Global)

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