Wild Route Environmental Consultants
Environmental in Pretoria

Wildroute Environmental Consultants CC was established in 2003 and strives to become one of the leaders in the wildlife management and environmental consulting field. We operate within a network of specialists, giving us access to a wide range of expertise within the environmental sphere. This includes areas like wildlife management, farm planning and management, rehabilitation and restoration, urban greening and landscaping, monitoring, environmental impact assessments and environmental education and training. Wildroute Environmental Consultants CC’s primary member is registered as an ecologist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP), which regulate scientific and professional standards within the industry. Habitat analysis for the reintroduction of protected or specially protected animal species. Camera trapping to determine the presence of animals (especially predators) and. An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) can be described as a systematic process to identify alternatives to and the potential positive and negative impacts of both a proposed activity and the feasible alternatives on the environment (biophysical, socio-economic and cultural). Urban forests can provide many environmental, social and economic benefits to society. Wildlife management begins as soon as an area is demarcated as a unit on a map. No development, especially that of a larger nature, should take place before the limitations and potential of the environment have been thoroughly determined. Other supplementary subjects included anthropology, economics, sociology, psychology and agrarian extension. He then proceeded to do an honours degree in wildlife management with an emphasis on vegetation surveys and the monitoring of change in vegetation, especially looking at the management of wildlife and other natural resources. As part of the requirements for this course, a management plan was compiled for a private game ranch in the Dullstroom district, Mpumalanga. After the completion of my honours degree, Danie was awarded a scholarship by the University of Pretoria to work as a technical research assistant at the Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation in Sinton, Texas. During that time he assisted postgraduate students with research in mammal-invertebrate interactions, mammal ecology, habitat ecology and bird ecology. As part of the scholarship the recipient is required to register for a masters degree in Wildlife Management on his/her return to South Africa. He wrote his masters degree thesis on aspects of the ecology and conservation status of selected wildlife in and around Tembe Elephant Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where he was part of the Maputaland conservation-based and integrated rural development programme as representative of the Center for Wildlife Management from the University of Pretoria. The project links with the broader objectives of the Lebombo Spatial Development Initiative (LSDI) and the Lebombo Transfrontier Conservation Area (LTFCA), which are managed in the same region. The focus of his studies were firstly to determine the biological importance of a community-based natural resource management project in the area towards the conservation of the regionally rare sand forest habitat type, and secondly to determine the habitat selection and conservation status of selected herbivores in the Tembe Elephant Park. During 2003 Danie also founded an environmental consulting business: Wild Route Environmental Consultants. The main focus being to help with the planning of game ranches and reserves by assisting with the planning of infrastructure, determining the ecological carrying capacity and stocking rates, general veld and wildlife management recommendations as well as the compilation of management plans. Danie is also registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP) in the field of Ecological Science. In the beginning of 2006 he became a full-time lecturer at Centurion Akademie in Centurion, Pretoria. In addition to presenting lectures in game ranch management, veld management, game management and conservation development, Danie is also responsible for organizing and supervising the second year research projects, and third year experiential learning.