Field Ranger - Anti-Poaching Ranger
Game Rangers and Field Rangers are the principal guardians of the world’s premier natural and cultural protected environments.
Field Rangers are involved in complex and highly important tasks in the preservation of natural and cultural resources, which constitute core elements of the world’s natural and cultural heritages.
If you are looking for a career that will be an adventure, this course is an ideal platform for a successful career in the challenging private Game Reserve industry, or to find your way into a Provincial or National Park as a Wildlife Field Ranger, you can add a Para-Military Course and become an Anti- Poaching Ranger ...
The course content is both theoretical and practical.
The curriculum includes bush craft, tracking and spoor identification, wildlife knowledge and wildlife management.
Out of the 26 training providers in South Africa alone, the IAPF - Eco Ranger Academy is only one of two which provides this accreditation and career progression. This method has been successfully implemented time and time again by the IAPF Director of Training Operations JC Strauss. Of those 2 providers, the IAPF is the only one that intends to provide this training free of charge with the assistance of donor funding for selected organizations and groups in Africa.
BENEFITS OF STANDARDIZED TRAINING & OPERATIONS:
- Unifies a fragmented industry and collection of efforts
- Creates and monitors a superior global standard
- Allows AP rangers to be moved to high threat areas
- Allows AP rangers to be rotated around a region, reducing the threat from within the unit
- Facilitates joint operations, particularly important within transfrontier areas
- Supports the implementation of a standardized grading system for protected areas which enables the threat to be accurately met
- Allows for international exchange of rangers
- Creates clear career progression for an often forgotten and stagnating industry
- Potential for career progression increases morale
- Creates a recognized qualification for those that have long deserved it
- Allows a clear pay structure and benefits plan to be created for AP Rangers
- Allows a clear set of labor laws to be defined and implemented in each country
