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FGASA Certification and Professional Designations: Clarity for Employers
For over 3 decades, FGASA has worked collaboratively with guides, employers, training providers, conservation bodies, and tourism stakeholders to define what professional guiding excellence looks like in practice. FGASA-certified guides are recognised for meeting—and exceeding—industry expectations, giving employers and guests confidence in their knowledge, experience, judgement, and conduct. Professional Standards [...]
Advancing Sustainable Guiding Practices: FGASA Partners with Unisa Researcher to Promote Responsible Game Drives
FGASA is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Prof. Gerhard Nortjé from the University of South Africa (Unisa), aimed at advancing best practices in sustainable game drives and off-road driving within the tourist guiding industry. This initiative builds on the recent release of Sustainable Game Drives and Off-Road Driving: [...]
FGASA is Seeking an Experienced Marketing and Communications Officer
We’re Hiring! FGASA is looking for a Marketing & Communications Officer to join our team from 15 February 2026. Job Brief FGASA, a voluntary Professional Body for Guides and Trackers in Southern Africa, is seeking a Marketing & Communications Officer to lead the association’s communications and public-facing messaging. This role [...]
FGASA featured in BirdLife South Africa’s Avitourism Project Donor Report for 2025
FGASA and BirdLife South Africa have been working together to advance sustainable tourism and the gold standards of guiding. We were recently featured in BirdLife South Africa’s Avitourism Donor Report for 2025, read the excerpt below. BirdLife South Africa and the Field Guides Association of South Africa (FGASA) [...]
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