Snake Awareness and First Aid for Snakebite lecture with Johan Marais.
A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa
A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa
Saturday 20 April 2013 at Heia Safari Ranch, Muldersdrift.
The day starts at 09:00 sharp (please get there at 08:45) with a Snake Awareness and First Aid for Snakebite lecture that lasts
around 3 hours. It includes snake awareness, identification, first aid for snakebite, medical treatment of snakebite and is followed by a written test. This module costs R600.00 per person. After lunch (there is a restaurant and light meals can be purchased) we do the venomous snake handling variety of venomous snakes such as the Puff Adder, Snouted Cobra and Boomslang are used. The Snake Awareness and Venomous Snake Handling course costs R980.00 per person.
For more information you can also go to www.africansnakebiteinstitute.com.______________________________________________________________________________________________
For the third time in five years, Professor Bruce Cairncross, Head of UJ’s Department of Geology, has won first prize in the 59th International Tucson Gem & Mineral Show photographic competition. This event coincides with the largest gem and mineral show in the world which is held in Tucson Arizona during February each year. The competition is open to all photographers of gemstones and mineral specimens and is adjudicated by a panel chaired by Jeff Scovil, the world’s leading mineral and gemstone photographer. There are two categories of entrants in the competition, one for pictures of ‘micromount’ specimens, that is, crystals photographed under the microscope, the other category for macro, or larger specimens. Bruce submitted a photograph of a 9.1-cm rhodochrosite specimen from the N’Chwaning I mine in the Kalahari Manganese Field; the specimen belongs to Desmond Sacco. This picture that won the prize, together with several hundred other pictures that Bruce took, will feature in the upcoming book on the geology and minerals of the Kalahari Manganese Field that he wrote together with his colleague at UJ, Nic Beukes.
