Join our professional naturalist training course

• Are you keen on expanding your scientific knowledge about forests, flora and fauna?
• Are you looking to boost your career as a professional guide or conservationist?
• Do you wish to change your routine and experience the distantIy fascinating life in a wilderness settings?

Opening New Doors

Professional Naturalist Training program is essential for those wanting to pursue a wildlife and conservation orientated career. It helps upgrade the life skills and discipline needed for nature reserve jobs, or a future as a professional field guide, or a wildlife tour leader. For those with experience in wildlife education and tourism, or with qualification in hospitality, or environmental sciences, PRONAT helps set the stage and shape the skills professionally required in the wildlife tourism industry.

The Wilderness Experience with PRONAT

Explorers and enthusiasts who wish to learn more about Indian wildlife, or kick-start their career as nature guides and lodge naturalists, are welcome to apply. The enriching experience of peer Iearning and professional guidance, while living in a remote boot camp is a life altering experience. For those who are looking to ditch the routine city life for the wilderness, PRONAT will provide quintessential techniques for inculcating new hobbies like species identification, interpreting tracks and signs, or learning first-aid in the forests.

• Life in the camp will be an adventure for the ones who are passionate about nature and can minimally appreciate Iack of internet, as much as the presence of it.
• The candidates should be willing to learn from the experts,and the experiences of their peers (forest life is about team work and upgrading life skills).
• Experts will deliver lectures in English. An understanding and speaking fluency in the English language is a must.
• Candidates joining PRONAT, who wish to take up guiding as a profession must obtain a valid LMV driving license prior to the commencement of the course. This is mandatory for candidates taking the extension for guiding techniques.
• Though one of the modules of the course covers reptiles, but partici-pants are prohibited from handling any form of wildlife including snakes and amphibians.
• We do not cover snake handling, and therefore do not encourage the participants to handle any form of wildlife even after undertaking the course.
• Candidates joining with the purpose of exploring and expanding their knowledge on wildlife, must be willing and enthusiastic towards the course curriculum.
• At the end of a course, candidates will be required to take a practical and theoretical examination. The qualifying candidates will be rewarded with a completion certificate.