ESA initially designed its safari courses with the specific intention of providing universities and schools with a platform from which to give their students an unparrelled educational experience.
The courses are designed to provide students and high school pupils with a holisitc background to pertinent conservation and management issues in Africa today, founding this knowledge on basic ecological principles.
Our lectures and practical exercises have been developed and adjusted to make them fun, rewarding,
encouraging and educational.
Students typically spend the mornings under our canvas roofed open air lecture room in our exclusive
pan handle camp, or under the shade of a large Acacia or fig tree at any of of numerous destinations.
Lectures, talks and discussions are 40 mins long, with tea breaks during the morning.
Every possible afternoon is spent out of the lecture room in the surrounding wilderness.
In the afternoon we focus activities on the practical aspects of field ecology; animal and plant identification, conducting census of the surrounding animal and plany populations, quantifying the habitat complexity and assessing its quality, i.e. basic field techniques required to undertake field research.
The pan handle camp is located on the banks of the Okavango River, allowing us to get onto the water either
in Mokoro or motor boat to conduct aquatic surveys, while behind the camp, un-spoilt Acacia woodlands
provide an ideal location to conduct terrestiral ecology practicals.
Practical work is designed to give the students course work in large and small groups,
while individual projects can be set for the duration of the course.
While we feel that our lectures provide each student with the baseline knowledge to develop a career in the environmental field, we appreciate that every institution has its own goals, syllabus and credit system.
We are therefore very happy to adjust our courses to accommodate your specific requirements.
We can adjust any lecture topics or field activities accordingly, invite local experts to give talks
on any particular topic and adjust, within reason the duration of the course to suit your needs.
If you are interested in conducting your field trips to Africa, the Okavango Delta is the perfect place
to enthuse your students.
While not only providing exceptionally beautiful and untouched wilderness, the habitat diversity,
land-use issues and conflict resolution problems allow us at ESA to address many pertinent issues in the conservation field today.
Depending upon the size of the group that you would like to bring we may be able to adjust our prices.
We have a maximum group size of 24, including teachers and lectures, but can expand to 31, if necessary.
Please see the links on the safari courses for details of the courses we have to offer.
We can depart from Maun to begin one of our courses to suit your time schedule.
