The course, taught by professors Scott and Vicki Herriott, also included students from the Maharishi Invincibility Institute (MII) in Johannesburg who are enrolled in the Institute's college that trains students in conservation and park management.

MUM students study at nature reserve in South Africa
by Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, The Review
23 May 2012

A group of seven Maharishi University of Management students spent the April block at a nature reserve in South Africa studying ecotourism and helping to create a business and marketing plan.

The course, taught by professors Scott and Vicki Herriott, also included eight students from the Maharishi Invincibility Institute (MII) in Johannesburg who are enrolled in the Institute's college that trains students in conservation and park management.

As a context for studying ecotourism, the group stayed at the Ezemvelo Nature Reserve and had excursions to other nature reserves and game parks in South Africa. Ezemvelo is a 16-square-mile nature reserve east of Pretoria and northeast of Johannesburg that was donated to MII in 2008 by the family that controls the DeBeers diamond company.

"The wildlife at Ezemvelo is awesome," said student Matthew Lindberg-Work. "We saw—rather, we were living with—ostrich, zebras, wildebeest, impalas, springbucks, kudu, eland, waterbucks, and gemsbucks. It was an extraordinary experience of being out in nature."

The Ezemvelo Nature Reserve is a resort with cottages, visitor's center, and campground for recreational visitors. About an hour's drive from the Johannesburg airport, it is in the malaria-free zone of South Africa.

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