Triangular bandage/necker per patrol
String
Maps and routes
Paper and pens
Pioneering poles
Sweets (antidotes!)
Squirty bottles
Old tins and coat hangers x3
Fake fur (animal skins)
Pictures of animals placed around the site for the girls to collect

You are a group of journalists for a wildlife magazine producing a special feature on Africa. Your aim is to find and get pictures of all of the animals your Editor has listed. To write up your story your Editor also wants other information and so has selected you all for your specialist knowledge.

Your group includes a Naturalist who will collect and observe the flora and fauna. Another one member should keep a log book to record all that goes on. Another is a navigator who should mark you route on the map and keep directions. A complete circle should be progressed. Another, is a meteorologist who should record the weather, formation of clouds etc.,

You may meet people around the plain who can help you in completing your task, but watch out for predators!

Follow the route on your map and keep an eye out for the animals on the list (you may not find them all in order). Watch out for further instructions along the route. Remove only enough for your group and were things are colour coded only take your groups colour.

Before starting on your journey you need to collect various bits of equipment. You need one bag between you all which should contain the following:

Triangular bandage for first aid
Paper and pens for recording
String
Penknife - if you have one.

In case you are killed or injured on your journey you need to make and identity disk each. Show this to the Editor (who is in charge of your camp) before you leave so that it will be recognised should anything happen to you.

Groups 2 and 3 given tasks to complete to stagger start time e.g. make animal trap from wood, begin leaf collection before they leave.

Clues

• You have come to an area of quick sand - get your team over it without anyone falling in! Guides have to get their patrol over an area with pioneering poles



• Trying to get a picture of a monkey up a tree one tea member has fallen and landed on their arm, hurting it - put it in a sling. 



• You have all been bitten by a snake. To cure your snake bite you must go to a tribal healer who will give you the antidote in exchange for something they need. Guides given sweets in return for 5 different types of leaf/grass(or whatever the tribal healer wants! 



• To get the next picture you will have to be very quiet approaching the animals. If they hear you they may attack. Guiders/YL's lay in wait with water pistols/squirty bottles



• You are getting hungry. You notice from the map you will soon be approaching a settlement. You hope they may be able to provide you with some food, however you will need to give them something in return. The local tribes people like wearing jewellery. Make some jewellery from objects you find around you and anything in your packs to exchange for food. Guides make jewellary in return for food 



• You have found some animal skins. Use these to make a banner, flag or shield as a souvenir of your trip to show your Editor.



• In Africa everything is recycled and reused. This is useful rubbish. Take it with you (tin cans and coat hangers) 



• Use the tin and coat hangers to make a cooking pot. You will be able to use this on your return to camp.  



• Present all your findings (pictures, weather reports, flora and fauna, log book and route) to the Editor in charge of camp.

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