Learner workbook of Species Care NQF L2

(US113821 Food SOPA1)


Question1:


Explain why personal hygien is so important when working at he WLC- refer to washing your hands, also after smoking, clean clothes, no strong perfumes and at least anothe two points?

• Animals imunsistem differ from human so if your hands is full of germs and you are prepering meat your transfur your germs to the animals so it is very important to wash your hands after being at the bathroom, smoking 

• When smoking the animals smel is very good so they smel you, you stink to them and you are a threat to themand thy may atack you.  It is the same with your perfume.

• When ceaning the plat form wer you did cut meat.  You have to clean and disinfect the plat form very nice and with diffrent clothes 1 for cleaning the blood from the plat form and then you spray savlone and then you wipe the area with an other clean clothe  

Cros contamination:  The spread of germs in and/or disease carried from an infected area to a non infected area

 Question2:

Choose 2 exampels and describe the feeding plans, how their food is prepared and why it is being prepared as such?


When feeding you have to know when , how much the animals have to get.  So ther have to be a board with all the animals names on and the times and how much food do they get and wat kind of food.

• There shoed be a table for the meat and the fruits/milk. It helps with croscontamination.
• You are going to cut the meat and weigh how much the animal gets and put it on a feeding bowel.

 Question3:

Why do certian animals and birds get fed at certain times?


They have to get small amounts few times a day for the growing progres.  When they are small as they get bigger they must get more amount les times a day.

That is how they wil eat in the wilde at the mother. eg. diurnal (day) lion , noctunal (night) owl


(US 113818 Cleaning SOPA3)

Ther are 3 basic chemicals used in the preparation of food- detergent, disinfectant and sterilizer. Explain these and where they are used in the WLC?

• Detergent: will dissolve grease  and fats but will not kill bacteria. (wash the feeding bolews)
• disinfectant: remove infection but wil not dissolve fats remove all bacteria. (milk and the maet area tabels)
• sterilizer: milton remove all the bacteria the feeding bottels. it have to be in the milton for an haven houer before killing the bacteria.

(US 113822 Animal care SOPB1)

 Question4:

Explan what is meant by the "Fight or Flight" response in animals How is this related to an animal's comfortzone and flight distance?

Flight respons , the biological response of animals to cut stress. the space you give the animals to flight there comfortzone

When some of the animals begins hising, showing theath and the ears is back you have to back off it is a warning sing.

Carry out harvesting of fauna (Game capture)

Carry out harvesting of fauna (Game capture):

Before harvesting could take place you mast make sure that all the equipment is in good working condition.

Every game is having its own equipment suitable to harvesting.  When you are harvest  the game animals the following are some of the equipment which need to be checked:

• Map of the area
• Vehicles + extra petrol 
• Spotlights
• Refiles
• Skinners
• Pots
• Refrigerators 
• Skinning Knife
• Hanging hooks

Equipment is checked for evidence for wear and tear.

Carry out appropriate harvesting procedures:
Appropriate harvesting methods is identify:

Chemical game capture:  When chemicals is used to dart the animals that needs to be captured. A veterinarian must be present to do the darting.  When the animal is sedated it is then loaded onto a truk and transported to it's destination.

Passive game capture: When bomas is put up with food inside the boma with a few entrances, the boma is usually left like this for a few days for the animals to get used to it.  People are put on posts to watch the entrance and as soon as the animal inside the entrance is closed by a curtain.  The animals is then chased up a loading ramp into the loading truck.

Active game capture: A boma is put up in a V-shape with one entrance, the animals is chased by a helicopter into the boma.  The boma is divided into sections and as soon as the animals past each section the pilot signals the people on the ground to close the curtains of that section.  The animals is then chased into the loading truck.

Conservation Ethic:

The conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection.

Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its

• forests

• fisheries

• habitats

• and biological diversity

Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to protect the natural world.

To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by many groups with a wide variety of motivations.

                            The four R's in conservation ethics:

• "Reduce"
• "Recycle" 
• "Reuse"
• "Rethink." 

This social ethic primarily relates to local purchasing, moral purchasing, the sustained and efficient use of renewable resources, the moderation of destructive use of finite resources, and the prevention of harm to common resources such as air and water quality, the natural functions of a living earth,     and cultural values in a built environment.

The weekend on Sondela 2 September 2011 4 September 2011

Weekend on Sondela 2 September 2011_- 4 September 2011 :

Friday 2 September 2011:

we worked on our files and we wrote test about HIV/AIDS we also blogged. After that we had welcoming from 1:00 til 9:00 were we had to welcome the people at here cars and give them the weekend program and  tel them about the free pancakes thy get wen thy arrived.

Saturday 3 September 2011:

The morning we worked at the farmyard  were we walked the horse around the farmyard and i also panted the kids faces. After that i whet  and help out at the restaurant we i worked in the coffee station and in the bar. I did the preparations for bring and braai.

Sunday 4 September 2011:

The morning i did worked at the farmyard  were we walked the horse around the farmyard. After that i whet  and help out at the restaurant we i worked in the coffee station and in the bar after that i went on split because i did work at ECO life. I did came back 6:00 for ECO life  worked til 10:00 






 

Poaching in South Africa

What is Poaching?

Poaching is the killing or taking of any wildlife.  Wildlife belongs to the people and is protected by state, provincial  and federal resource laws. A person that takes wildlife illegally is stealing that animals from you. If it is a trophy deer taken out of season it deprives someone else the opportunity to legally harvesting the animal. Poaching might also involve the illegal taking of an animal for sale in international trade of illegal wildlife and wildlife products.  Poaching are not poor who are merely trying to feed their families. Putting food on the table is one of the least common motives.

Rhino Poaching in SA:

210 Rhinos have already been killed by poachers in South Africa since the start of this year.  This is up 70% from all the rhinos killed in South Africa last year.


The Black market demand for rhino horn has experienced a huge surge recently. The horn is mostly for medicinal purposes. Each horn which weighs around 10 kg currently fetches over US$ 20. 000 per kilo in Asian

Even Nobel Peace prize winner Desmond Tutu made a public statement last week about the importance of protecting rhino from poaching.

“It is robbing our people of their precious natural heritage, robbing our nation of its ecological diversity, and severely embarrassing our nation abroad.”