Bushcraft & Wilderness Skills Online Course

Study the techniques at Home so you will be prepared when you head out.

Learn about Hiking, Camping, Bushwalking, Exploring and leading ecotours and excursions

Survive in the wild!
Professional development course, train for a career or to start a business.
Work in an outdoor supply or camping shop; or in the tourism or leisure industries.

Whether on day or overnight trips, whenever a group goes on a trip into natural areas they need to be prepared, and led by someone who has a high level of survival skills. Every week in almost every country there are reports of individuals and groups missing in the wilderness, often quite close to help. Occassionally these events are fatal. They don't have to be.

This course builds an understanding of the things you are likely to confront when you leave civilisation and provides a foundation for preparing yourself and those who accompany you for any excursion into a natural area.

This course is valuable to people who may have a recreational interest in wilderness exploration, orienteers, tour guides, scout leaders, or ecotour business owners.

By combining this course with eco-tour management, adventure tourism, tourism I and II, park management I and II or travel photography the student will acquire a skill base that will lead to exciting employment opportunities or safe and satisfying outdoor adventure

Attractive discounts apply for multiple course pathways.

Lessons:

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Understanding Wilderness Areas
Introduction
Living Things
Ecological Relationships
Climatic Zones
Climate/Soil/Vegetation Interrelationships
Plant Associations
Understanding Impacts of Weather on Wilderness Activities
Terminology
Participants Fitness Levels

2. Equipment
Equipping to Survive
Clothing
Nutrition
Risk Assessment

3. Protection from the Elements
Introduction
Hypothermia
First Aid Procedures
Hyperthermia
First Aid Procedures
Building a Wilderness Shelter
Lighting a Fire

4. Natural Resources
Introduction
Finding Water
Bush Tucker or Survial Food
Animals for Food

5. Navigation
Introduction
Natigation & Direction Finding
Map Reading
Longitude and Latitude
Scale
Contour Lines
Estimating Distances
Pacing
Navigation by the sun, moon and stars

6. Dealing with Emergencies
Introduction
A Person can Live For:
Venomous Creatures & First Aid
Carnivorous Mammals
Poisonous Plants
Bushfires

7. Camping
Setting up Camp
Waste Disposal

8. Passive Wilderness Activities
Introduction
Observing Nature
Orienteering
Environmental Activies for Kids
Observation Activies
Collecting Activies

9. Water Based Adventure Activities
Introduction
Water Based Activities

10. Active Land Based Adventure Activities
Introductions
Activies
Motor Activities

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Course Code: BTR201
Duration: 100 hours
Qualification: Certificate
Exam: Optional

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