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Wilderness & Bear Awareness - Online
The biggest danger people face in outdoor survival situations is being unprepared. This online course — including interviews with outdoor-survival experts — gives you the information to handle most situations you may encounter in the outdoors when help isn't just around the corner. About 150 minutes online, with testing throughout (80% pass mark).
Who it’s for
- Anyone working in wilderness environments
- Hunters, campers & outdoor recreation
What you’ll cover
- Bear awareness: characteristics, behaviour & body language, hibernation, food sources
- Hunting, camping & travelling safely in bear country
- Avoiding encounters; defensive vs non-defensive attacks; when and how to play dead
- Bear spray and bear bangers
- Encounters with cougars, moose, elk, wolves & snakes
- Bites & stings: ticks, mosquitoes, bees; reducing Lyme disease exposure
- Food storage in campsites
- Emergency shelters — winter & summer
- Lightning, trees & high winds
- Signalling for help & making water safe to drink
- Preventing hypothermia & frostbite
Completion & certification
To receive your credentials you must attend and complete the entirety of the course and complete all the necessary components as required by the course provider.
- You receiveRecord of Training
- ValidityValid 36 months
- DeliveryOnline — self-paced
- JurisdictionCanada
Register & start today
This course runs entirely online through our training portal. Register and pay there, start immediately, and work at your own pace — your certificate of completion is ready to download the moment you pass.
How buying works — about a minute
- Click the link above to open the course in our training store.
- Choose Buy now, or Add to cart if you’re buying several.
- Create an account (or sign in if you already have one).
- Complete the course — your certificate is ready as soon as you pass.
Training a crew? Request a quoteand we’ll set the whole team up.