Environmental Monitors Internship: July 2019

Environmental Monitors Internship: July 2019

Three of our Environmental Monitors, namely Christinah, Regernt and Brendan, who are based in the community, started their internship at Umbabat during the July 2019 school holidays.   Various skills programmes were organised by various members:  Lindsey Jones: how to research, lesson planning, PowerPoint, and presentation skills.  Motswari Private Nature Reserve: tracking skills and game drive  Ingwelala: kindly did most of the administration of the Internship programme and their team provided various opportunities to learn new skills. These included: solar panel assessment, alien vegetation removal, birding, building gabions, erosion control, housekeeping, managing reception, shop keeping, teaching the children in the staff village about the environment, working at the filling station, and so much more.  Noctuam: our counter-poaching unit allowed them to accompany them on a patrol.  Elephants Alive: Showed them how they record data and track Elephants within the reserve Bryan Havemann (Warden): Took them to recover the tusks and skull of an Elephant that had died in order to age the animal. Kevin Evans: as one of the landowners...
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New Outreach Team Member

New Outreach Team Member

The UPNRA Outreach team has been given an Environmental Monitor (EM), by the Kruger 2 Canyons Biosphere. Splendor Tshabalala started with the UPNR Outreach Team in July 2018. She will be based in the Sigagula Village of Acornhoek, just off the Orpen Rd with SAME. Her role is to assist with the after-school programme for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC). Subjects she focuses on during the school term are Maths and English and during the school holidays, it will be Art, Sport, Self-Development and Environmental Education. For more information on how you can get involved with the Outreach team please contact Lindsey Jones at info@umbabat.com...
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