Apr 30, 2011 | Animal welfare, Courses & Programs, Training and Work Experience |
Course in Native animal rehabilitation We’ve had many inquiries about such courses, including the one that was offered by Renee Chamberlain but the online version is unfortunately not currently available UPDATE: (December 2011): please go...
Mar 30, 2011 | Working in wildlife tourism |
Disabled Birding Tours by Bo Beolens, The Fat Birder Having organized and sometimes guided disabled birding trips for well over a decade I’d like to shares a few thoughts on the problems and pitfalls and how to avoid them. The very first issue is the nature of...
Mar 26, 2011 | Interpretation, Working in wildlife tourism |
Does wildlife tourism have a future? Good guiding is essential! Interesting article here on the future of wildlife tourism and the role of guides and other interpreters:...
Mar 3, 2011 | Interpretation, Training and Work Experience, Working in wildlife tourism |
By Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow In the 1980s I ran a guiding course. One day a trainee operator and I came across a large goanna, lying freshly dead in the burnished iron pisolate gravel on the side of the road. “Shall we see whether it’s a boy or a girl?” I asked...
Feb 26, 2011 | Animal welfare, Avoiding negative effects on wildlife, Interpretation, Working in wildlife tourism |
Tourism and wildlife habituation: Reduced population fitness or cessation of impact? An interesting new article in Tourism Management 2011 – in what circumstances is habituation to humans a negative or a positive effect on wildlife?
Nov 23, 2010 | News, Training and Work Experience |
We just received the following message: Hi there We have recently received 20 fully funded PPP positions from Skills Tasmania for our Certificate IV course. This means that our Cert IV training course to be held in Tasmania early next year will be free of charge, so...
