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Guides of Selous.

With thanks to SANParks management and the forum moderators we are opening a new thread. This thread is aimed at assisting a group of guides called the “Guides of Selous”. This group consist of guides working and living in one of the camps in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania.

Guide training in Tanzania is basic, standards are low and primary and secondary education opportunities are limited. Most of the guides have been brought up in Tanzania and did their training with one of the local training academies. Only the basics are taught and after that they start working.

Self study is difficult as they often don’t have books or access to the internet. In camp they have access to the internet only for short periods of time, but the internet is slow and many of them don’t know how to use it. Searching internet sites is time consuming and demands technical understanding as well as having to cross check information in order to identify accurate information and discard wrong information.

So, we want to help these guides:

In this thread the guides will post questions and ask for your help to find the correct answer.

There are so many passionate and knowledgeable forumites, so we hope that they will learn from you and get a better understanding of our wonderful world, and specifically of the ‘bush’.

Many thanks for your help!

Selous Guides
Jaap van Dijk