Saskia Taylor

• KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. Period: Nov 2006 – Present. Position: Head Guide, Letaba
• KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. Period: Nov 2004 - Dec 2005. Position: Senior Field Guide / First Rifle (Relief), Northern Business District.
• KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. Period: Feb 2003 - Nov 2004. Position: Second Rifle Field Guide. Promoted from Junior Field Guide in February 2004
• KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. Period: Sept 2003 - Feb 2003. Position: Freelance Game Drive Guide

• CROC RIVER ENVIRO PARK. Period: Oct 2001 - Sept 2003. Position: Laboratory Assistant

• PANASONIC BUSINESS SYSTEMS. Period: January 2000 – August 2001. Position: Stock Controller

• Lerato Khoza, Hospitality Services Manager
  Letaba, Kruger National Park
  013 735 6636
• Robert Bryden, Park Activities Co-ordinator. Phalaborwa Gate, Kruger National Park
  013 735 3521
• Andrew Desmet,Park Activities Manager. Phalaborwa Gate, Kruger National Park
  013 735 3522

OTHER WORK / EXPERIENCE OBTAINED IN KNP

• Taking minutes for disciplinary hearings and Occupational Health / Safety meetings

• Olifants River Backpack Trail

• Soil moisture research on fire plots in the Mopani Region

• Foot and Mouth Disease testing on impala in the Orpen Region

• Giving a talk on reptiles in the Skukuza Auditorium

• Veld condition assessments

• Collecting data from weather stations

• Mopani worm research assistance (data collection through field work)

• Shooting an elephant and observing the shooting of others with bolt-action rifles
  (training purposes)

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• Code 10 Driver’s License (C1)
• First Aid Level II
• National Certificate:  Nature Site Guide NQF Level 4 (Dangerous Game); TG16 - View Potentially Dangerous Game on foot; TG27 – Bird Guide (Birdlife SA)
• Advanced Rifle Handling (KNP / FGASA)
• Roomseeker User – KNP course
• Advanced Excel – KNP course
• Initiating a Disciplinary Hearing – KNP course
• Cybertracker (Veld Condition Assessments) – KNP training
• Animal Anatomy and Physiology – Onderstepoort
• Bird Ringing Workshop (Rael Loon)
• Membership:   Field Guides Association of Southern Africa and Wilderness Action Group
• Curretly busy with a BA in Environmental Managment.