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CURRICULUM  VITAE.  BARTON  YOUNG

ADDRESS:                                                    P.O. BOX 2396. Port Alfred. 6170
                                                                       South Africa
TELEPHONE:                                                +27-046-6244667 telefax
                                                                      rosebuds@intekom.co.za (e-mail address)

PERSONAL  DATA:
Date of birth:                23 November 1973.
ID number:                   7311235189002
Marital Status:              Single.
Religion.                      Non-practising Jewish.
Drivers Licence.          Code.8.S.A. Code 10.  Code 14. Motor bike.
Nationality.                  South African.
Home Language.          English.
Other.                          Afrikaans.(read and write.) Xhosa (minimal)
                                   Hebrew. Zulu (minimal)
Military Service.           Completed. 1993.
Criminal Offences.       None.
Health.    Excellent.
Physical Attributes.   6'3". Blue eyes. Red Hair.

EDUCATIONAL  QUALIFICATIONS:

Last School attended.                  Woodridge Private College.
                                                    P.O  Thornhill. 6375.
Highest Std. Passed.                    Standard 10.
Subjects.                                      English. Afrikaans. (H.G.) Biology. (S.G) History.
                                                    Geography. (S.G.) Business Economics.

EXTRA  MURAL  ACTIVITIES:

Sport.                            Athletics. Water Polo. Rugby. Swimming.
Other.                            Polo Cross. Canoeing. Rock Climbing. Shooting Club.
                                      Martial Arts Society. Out door Camping/ Hiking.
Awards:                         Honours. Rugby, E.P. Schools. Colours. Riding.
                                     "Piet  van Blommestein "Award, for achievement in
                                      Rugby.
Achievements:                Prefect in 1992.
                                      Deputy Head.  Deputy Head of House. Hostel. Captain
                                     of Out Door Education Club. Red Sash..Kung Fu.
 

PREVIOUS  EXPERIENCE:

ORGANISATION:  S.A. DEFENCE  FORCE.

 Danie Theron Combat shool. Potchefstroom.S.A.
 Function:               Military Intelligence.
Post Held:               Observations Corporal-Physical Training instructor.
Duration/post.         Entered army 1993, national serviceman. Completed
                               3 months basic training course. Top 5.
                               Four months spent in counter-intelligence and
                                observations, N.C.O. in East London. Duties included   information gathering, obxervation of movements, of violent factions in Transkei and Ciskei. Assisted S.A.P narcotics dept., with "fly-in's" and road blocks.
 
ACHIEVEMENTS:                  Lectured to Senior Officers on counter intelligence:
                                                   Chosen to take part in the CAMEL Trophy adventure, as
                                                   the most outstanding soldier of his year.  Declined, due to
                                                   prior commitments involving army.

Reason for leaving:                Completed Service.

ORGANISATION:  MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT & TOURISM:
P.B. 13306.  Windhoek. Namibia. 9000.
Function:   Directorate Resource Management.
Post Held:   Management Volunteer. (ranger)
Etosha National Park. & West Caprivi, National Park

Duration/Post.   (a) 1989. Wild Life Protection Unit. Two months.
    (b) 1990. Game Capture.i.e. Black Rhino. translocation.
    (c) 1994. Management.
      built gabions. horse stables. maintained
      water installations. broke in horses.
      Wild Life Protection Unit. Horse patrols
      five months. Veld management.

      Research.
      Lion and Cheetah branding & collaring.
      five months.
     (d) 1995. Research (Caprivi.)
      Lion & Wild dog, branding & collaring.
      Translocation of fish species, from Chobe
      to Zambezi rivers. four months.
      Management. (Caprivi.)
      Eradication of problem animals. Wild Life
      Protection Unit. Game Capture. six months.
      Management. (Mangetti)
      Wild Life Protection Unit. 2 months.
 
 

    (e) 1996. Protected Resources Unit
 
 

ORGANISATION:  SHALOMKATZ SAFARIS

    P.O. Box 2396. Port Alfred.E.C
    (email rosebuds@intekom.co.za)
    Own business.
   Post Held:     Professional Safari Guide.
    (f) 1996. To look after, and guide international
      tourists: around Botswana and neighbouring
      countries.
    Duration:     Seven months, duration of tourist season.
      Assisting professional international
      photographers. Management and organising
      of tours. Specialising in Kosher Jewish
      clients.

EXPERTISE:     Veld management. Expert in flora and fauna.
      Conservation of indigenous species.
      Kosher and non Kosher "bush cooking".
      Reason for leaving:    End of tourist season.  Agenda too expertise
      for South Africa. Clientele limited

ORGANISATION:              SHAMWARI  GAME RESERVE:

Function:                                   (g)  1997.     Senior Ranger.

EXPERTISE:                                      Staff training. Guests. Animal management.

Reason for leaving:                              Offer of employment with Natal Parks Board.

ORGANISATION:  UMFOLOZI NATIONAL GAME RESERVE:

Function:   (h) 1997 Officer in Charge. A.P.U Umfolozi Game
      Reserve,  Natal Parks Board.

EXPERTISE:    Expertise for the position,
     included post held in army, and experience
     as above. Experience and knowledge of Veld
     and conservation of flora, fauna, and
     management of all. Training of staff.

Duration:    Three months.

Reason for leaving:   The post was a temporary post, which was
     then taken over by the government, and
     classified as "affirmative action" post.

ORGANISATION:  SABIE SANDS  GAME RESERVE:
    (f) 1997.Four months.
       Senior Ranger.
      Temporary.
      Expertise for the post included all
      of  the experience gained as above.
      Training of  staff.

ORGANISATION:  GO WILD SAFARIS: BOTSWANA
    (g) 1998/99. Eighteen months.
               Malaria complecations. Now addressed. Left to go to South Africa.
               Safari guide. Ranger: recently promoted to logistics manager.
               Expertise for the post as above.
 

TEMPORARY BREAK. DUE TO FAMILY MATTERS AND VACATION:
 

ORGANISATIONS: IVY SAFARIS:
 

April '00 - June '00
Temporary position at Ivy Bonsmaras T/A Ivy Safaris and Munnik Trading T/A
Munnik Butchery, Northern Province.

Assisted with general running of the 3500ha game farm, feedlot and abattoir operations. Built roads, constructed lapas and fitted kitchens. General feedlot maintenance, inoculations and de-horning.
Abattoir duties including skinning and gutting.
Field guide, tracker and hunting assistant for clients both wingshooting and trophy hunting. Anti-poaching. Chef catering for upto 25 guests at a time (3-course meals). Butchery delivery and marketing.

ORGANIZATIONS:
PATTERSON GAME CATCHERS: June 2000 - September 2000.

Temp. postion, with Patterson, Boma building and game catching for the season.

Season has ended.
 
 

ORGANISATION:  PROTECTED RESOURCES UNIT. **
    see address.
    Function:   Police Unit. Anti-poaching. Informer.
    Duration:   Worked for unit from January 1995. Duties.
    To infiltrate smuggling operations, whilst working
    on reserves. i.e protected game products. Rhino horn.
    Ivory.
    Worked, borders of Namibia. Successfully responsible
    for numerous arrests and recovery of goods.

GENERAL:
    Present outside interests. Martial Arts. Combat shooting. Archery. Fly fishing.
    Ornithology. Music. African Antiquities. Reading.
    Gardening. Anthropology. History.
    Photography. Golf. Cooking. Travelling in Africa.

Membership & Clubs. Showling Kung-Fu Society. Eastern Cape Shooting
    Association. Visiting member of Golf club.

Capabilities:   Barton is an articulate, well spoken, bright young man.
    Interested in everything. Helpful. Supportive and mature.
    Adaptable. Non-judgemental and gets on with everyone.
    An idealist, but with both feet firmly on the ground. Wonderful management attributes:

POSITION  REQUIRED: Conservation: (all fields)  with promotional
    opportunities.   Lodge management: Any position that will
    utilise my experience, enable my on going training.
    Research: Staff training: Anti-poaching. Game
    management.

TESTIMONIALS INCLUDE.

    Numerous letters of recommendations from places of
    employment.  Particularly, in relation to veld management;
    staff training, guest and staff control. Leadership qualities;
    Running of guest related enterprises;
    Staff  training, research and capture of game.
    Conservation, and certificates of bravery.     Accounting
    abilities and computer literacy.  Testimonials from
    school, army, and Gov. of Namibia.
 

 IDENTIFIED BY BARTON YOUNG (and documented) from Fish River
to Patterson. Eastern Cape. including Shamwari Game Park.

MAMMALS:
Chacma baboon, Vervet Monkey, Cape Hare, Scrub Hare, Red Rock Rabbit, Porcupine, Springhare,Aardwolf, Leopard, Lion, Caracal, Black Footed  Cat, Bat-eared Fox, Blackbacked Jackal , Cape Fox,Cape Clawless Otter, Honey Badger, Striped Weasel, Striped Polecat, Small-spotted Genet, large-spottedGenet, Suricate, Yellow Mongoose, White Tailed Mongoose, Small Grey Mongoose, Water Mongoose,Aardvark, Elephant, Rock Dassie, White Rhinoceros, Black Rhinoceros, Burchell's Zebra, Bushpig,Warthog, ,Hippotamus, Giraffe, Buffalo, Black Wildebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Blesbok Common & White,Red Hartebeest, Blue Duiker, Common Duiker, Springbok Common & Black, Cape Grysbok, Impala,Grey Rhebok, Gemsbok, Kudu, Nyala, Bushbuck, Eland, Mountain Reedbuck, Waterbuck, Red Lechwe,
Bontebok, Fallow Deer, Mongoose.

BIRDS:( excluding Ernes and sea birds)
Ostrich, Dabchick, Cormorant Whitebreasted & Reed, Darter, Heron - Grey, Blackheaded, Purple, CattleEgret & Blackcrowned Night, Hamerkop, Stork - White & Black, Ibis - Sacred & Glossy, African Finfoot,Goose - Egyptian & Spurwinged, South African Shelduck, Duck - Yellowbilled & African Black, CapeTeal, Hawk - Little Sparrow & Black Sparrow, Kite - Yellowbilled & Blackshouldered, Eagle - Black,Booted, Martial, Crowned, African Fish & Steppe, Buzzard - Steppe & Jackal , African Goshawk,Gymnogene, Rock Kestrel, Palechanting Goshawk, Lesser Kestrel, African Marsh Harrier, LannerFalcon, Secretary Bird, Rednecked Falcolin, African Quail, Helmeted Guineaufowl, Blue Crane, BlackCrake, Moorhen, Stanley's Bustard, Black Korhaan, Plover - Threebanded, Crowned & Blacksmith,Sandpiper - Common, Wood & Greenshank, Ethiopian Snipe, Dikkop - Spotted & Water, WhitewingedTern, Pigeon - Feral, Rock, Rameron, Dove - Redeyed, Cape Turtle, Laughing, amaqa,Cinnamon,Greenspotted & Tamborine, Narina Tragon , Knysna Lourie, Cuckoo - Redchested, Black, Klaas's, Diederik & Jabobin, Burchell's Coucal, Owl - Spotted Eagle, Wood, Cape Eagle & Pearl Spotted,
Fierynecked Nightjar, Swift - Black, Whiterumped, Horus, Little & Alpine, Mousebird - Speckled & Redfaced, Kingfisher - Pied, Giant, Malachite, Brownhooded & Pigmy, European Bee Eater, Hoopoe,Redbilled Woodhoopoe, Crowned Hornbill, Barbet - Blackcollared & Pied, Redfronted Tinker Barbet,Honeyguide - Lesser & Greater, Woodpecker - Knysna, Cardinal & Olive, Redthroated Wryneck, Lark -Rufousnaped & Redcapped, Swallow - European, Black Saw-wing, Whitethroated, Pearl Breasted,Greater Striped & Lesser Striped, Martin - Rock, House, Brownthroated & Banded, Cuckoo Shrike -Black & Grey, Forktailed Drongo, Blackheaded Oriole, Crow - Black & Pied, Whitenecked Raven, Tit -Southern Grey & Southern Black, Bulbul - Blackeyed, Terrestrial & Sombre, Thrush - Olive & Cape
Rock, Chat - Familiar, Mocking, Anteating & Stone, Robin - Cape, Whitebrowed & Karoo, Titbabbler,Warbler - Cape Reed & Willow, Apalis - Barthroated & Yellowbreasted, Longbilled Crombec, Cisticolas -Greybeaked & Levaillant's, Neddicky, Prinia - Tawnyflecked & Spotted, Flycatcher - Dusky, Black, Fiscal & Paradise, Barise - Cape & Chinspot, Cape Wagtail, Richard's Pipit, Orangethroated Longclaw, Shrike,Southern Boubou, Puffback, Southern Chagra, Bokmakierie, Olive Bush & Redbacked, Starling , Sunbird,Cape White Eye, Sparrow, Cape & lower region, Greyheaded, Weaver - Forest, Spectacled & Cape, Red
Bishop, Widow, Bluebilled Firefinch, Waxbill, Redheaded Finch, Pintailed Wydah, Black.
Widowfinch, Canary - Yelloweye, Cape, Bully, Yellow, Whitethroated & Streakyheaded, Bunting -Goldenbreasted & Cape.
 

REPTILES:
Skink, Lizardrd, Ornate Sandveld, Spotted Sand, Common Mountain, Cape Grass, Cape Girdled, CapeCrag, Monitor, Agama, Southern Dwarf Chameleon, Gecko, Tortoise, Marsh Terrapin, Delalande's BlindSnake, Dusky Bellied Water Snake, Brown House Snake, Olive House Snake, Cape Wolf Snake, CommonSlug Eater Snake, Mole Snake, Spotted House Snake, Spotted Skaapsteker, Spotted Bush Snake, CommonEgg Eater Snake, Herald/Redlipped Snake, Boomsland, Cape Cobra, Ringhals (Spitting Cobra), CommonNight Adder, Puff Adder, Frog - Black Rain & Hoggsback, Common Platana, Toad - Raucus & Dwarf.
 

TREES & PLANTS:
Common names only, Common Hook-Thorn, Karoo Sweet Thorn, Tilt-Headed Aloe, Coral Aloe, NeedleBush, Leafless Cadaba, Wild Caper Bush, Hottentot Fig, Num-Num, Cape Bushwillow, Narrow LeafedCrassula, Kooboo Berry, Cabbage Tree, Renosterbos, Common Guarri, River Euphorbia, YellowMilkbush, Veld Fig, Gasteria, Cross-Berry, Wild Plum, Busterperdepis, Bush Cherry, CommonSpikethorn, Kraal Spikethorn,Matches, Wild Olive, Prickly Pear, Pittosporum, Thickfoot, Plumbago,Outeniqua Yellow Wood, Spekboom, Sneezewood, Karoo Rigozum, Karee,Thorny Taaibos, Sour Taaibos,Kuni Bush, Karoo Boer-Bean, Bush Boer-Bean, Cat Thorn, Pepper Tree, White Milkwood, CapeHoneysuckle,Red-Berried Mistletoe, Wild Pepper Tree, Persan Peach Tree, Coastal Canthium, JacketPlum, Baines Aloe. Agapanthus. Red-Hot-Pokers, Arums, Green,  White, and Yellow. Strelitiza, Nicoli,and common. Knysana Ferns. Asparagus ferns.(various).
 

REFERENCES:

K.C. STARK
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
WOODRIDGE COLLEGE.
P.O. BOX THORNHILL. 6375.  TEL. 041- 9555874

P. DU PREEZ.
SENIOR  WARDEN.
OTJOASANDU
ETOSHA NATIONAL PARK.
P.O. BOX 55
KAMANJAB. NAMIBIA. 9000

DR. LOU  SCHEEPERS.
CHIEF BIOLOGIST CAPRIVI STRIP.
P.O. BOX 215.
KATIMA  MULILO.  NAMIBIA.  9000

INSPECTOR C.J.  MOSTERT.
PROTECTED RESOURCES UNIT.
P.O. BOX 3404
WINDHOEK.  NAMIBIA. 9000.

DR. DANA  WAYGOOD.
(CHIEF OF RESEARCH TEMP)
BOTSWANA.
P.O.Box 2072, WARWICK, W.A. 6024
AUSTRALIA.

GO WILD SAFARIS.
go.wild@info.bw
 

Mark & Lisa Ivy
Ivy Safaris
"Thaba Lodge"
P.O. Box 15
Munnik
0703

Cel. (082) 802 3688 (Lisa) or (082) 806 5973 (Mark)