Tuesday, November 2, 2021

A Day as an Honorary SANS Park Ranger

 A Day as an Honorary SANS Park Ranger

The SANParks Honorary Rangers is a group of unpaid volunteers who give freely of their time to support wildlife conservation in South Africa’s National Parks.

This last weekend was a snare removal weekend at the Kruger National park.

Myself and other Honorary rangers set out to remove snares along the fence line. Our teams were based at the Phabeni gate worked our way along the fence line to find snares. We were accompanied by armed SANParks rangers, just in case, any brave animals decided to approach. The fence line is a popular place to find snares as it is easiest for people to access the area.


We collected over 200 snares and also removed invasive alien plants along the Sabie River.

It is operations like this that prevent further harm to our indigenous wild animals. If you want to become an honorary ranger, all you need to do is volunteer your time. You can also support their efforts at Donate - SANParks Honorary Rangers (sanparksvolunteers.org) 
















Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Team Building

 Team Building


It is worth making the distinction between "teambuilding" as an activity and "team building" as a process.

 Teambuilding activities typically involve a retreat of some sort (an activity outside the formal work environment), typically organized with help from external consultants, with a series of communication, trust, and mutual understanding activities that can let people experience effective teamwork in a low risk environment. "Team building" as a process is the long term building of the team, from disparate individuals into a high performing team. 

In regards to negotiations within a team one can look at the ‘Game Theory’ as a competitive game which can be summarized by its underlying theory "the prisoner's dilemma". 

Here's a quick 2 min video on what this is if you've never heard of it:

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Beneficial Interests for Youth

 Beneficial Interests for Youth


"Civilization is in danger when youth neglect to interest themselves in ethics, sociology, eugenics, philosophy, the fine arts, religion, and cosmology."

 

111:4.4 (1220.3)

 

 

A Thought to Ponder from

The Urantia Book