Grass at site guide...

I never knew that grass could have so many different names, i always saw grass as just grass but after going into the field and seeing all the different types of grass and what the look like i learned so much more about the story behind grass. Then i learned that if you have a certain type of grass called "RED GRASS" it is a sign of good soil and that different types of grass grow in different types of soil... But most of all i learned that grass plays a real big role in the ecosystem...   

Birds at site guide...

In site guide one of the topics that we learn about is birds... In the topic birds we learn about the colour of the upper and underparts as well as the leg colour and the bill colour we also learn about the shape and the size of the bird and what they eat and the region of where they come from we mostly learn about the birds that we have on sondela like the secretary bird and the lapwings and horn bills... we thin learn on how to spot the birds to know witch is witch...

Site guide....

On my first few days of site guide i already learned so much on mammals and how to identify them and i also learned that without people skills you will not be able to be a good guide... Learning how to do game drives might seem easy to someone but once u do it yourself you realize that its not just about knowing the animals its about knowing how they work why they do the things they do.. and whats fun about being a guide you get to tell the guests a story about the animals even if it is made up its just to make them laugh after all its just a story

End of Resource Guardianship

At the end of resource guardianship i can say that i have learned a lot from the others students and myself i can now say that i know things that i never really new and know how to do things that is important on a farm and why it needs to be done i really learned new things and has a wider aspect on nature conservation

Harvesting and combating of fauna and flora

In resource guardianship we learn how to harvest fauna and flora like for instance how to harvest problem animals like insects and other animals that is over populated or a threat to others and harvesting problem plants like sekelbos that can rather be used for firewood then it covers taking out a problem plant and harvesting firewood. And also as well as slaughtering of animals that died so that the meat can be harvested and used for food for the animals and then combating the water weeds that was in the dam also covers harvesting because it only is good for nothing but removing it makes the scenery better and the water more healthy for the animals  

Erect and maintain wildlife fences

In recourse guardianship we have the main duty to erect and maintain the wildlife fences of the farm so when a fence is dismantled or completely damaged we know how to remove and replace or fix the fence. In recourse guardianship we learn about the different fences used like bonox  fence or the normal bush veld fences and how to fix them like for instance how to do a 90-degree hook or a circle hook or the easiest  using a grippler and gripples to join two wires and we learnd how to use the wire tensioner to pull the wire so that the two ends can be put together to complete the fence again. And we also learned how to plant "stut-pale" and painted the old ones so they could have a longer life line we also learned why it is important to clear the wires of any unwanted trees and bushes so that the fence has a longer life line.

Tings i learn in Resource Guardianship

In Resource Guardianship I learned that it is one of the most important pat of conservation because it is stretched over big parts of conservation. Resource Guardianship is mostly about maintaining the resources of a farm like maintaining the wildlife fences and fixing them when they need fixing and monitoring local wildlife and harvesting of fauna and flora. Our main priority's are basically to conserve the resources and make sure that it has a longer lifeline. I also learn about how to combat different  types of problem plants and animals and what these problem plants and animals can also be used to our advantage, that is just the basics of Resource Guardianship i also learn about how to prevent and fight fires when necessary and how to do first aid.

Resourse Guardianship

My first main course on Sondela is Resource Guardianship... where we learn more about how to take care of all the resources on the farm like maintaining and erecting wild life fences and the differant types of fences that is used for what kind of wildlife... and we also learned about the collecting and harvesting of fauna and flora were we got field specimens of differant types of fauna and flora and we learned about why they harvest some fauna and flora and the monitoring and mapping of wildlife... in RG we also learn about the cultural heritage of Sondela and what importance it has

WOP course

At the beginning when i got to sondela they told us the first 4 weeks is going to be the "gap year" meaning wop course were we learnd how to comunicate to geusts and others around us.. at the beginning we all were afraid but once we started to know one another and do group activities it got beter and beter by the end of the wop course we all laughed at how stupid and afraid we were