For many years, Hertan VT in Kommando has been hosting wildlife engineering students supported by our foundation for spring and summer internships. This August, a total of seven students from the University of Sopron and the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences took part in the two-week summer internship, where they learned how to build a high camp and a big game hunter, participated in clearing stalking paths, filling up spreaders, making salting pans, practicing worm tracking, and gained insight into the life of the local wildlife in the evening.

"The most useful knowledge (or rather experience) was the creation of artificial blood traps and the tracing, because I have never seen live trapping, and the game launcher and the trapping was another useful experience, because we could see in practice how much work is involved in these hunting devices. A hunter needs to know a little bit about the work of a carpenter, butcher, forester/forester and a little bit about engineering."
(Ákos Németh)

"The best experience for me was learning how to build hunting structures since I don't often get such opportunities back home. I also really enjoyed seeing bears in the wild for the first time and hearing stories of cool and chilling encounters from the professional hunters. Lastly, I'd say the most useful skill or knowledge I gained from this trip was learning how to use chainsaws and hammers."
(Hadjiyerou Vasilis)

"I would like to thank you for the opportunity to spend these two wonderful weeks in the village of Kommando in Transylvania. It was a great two weeks for me, we had excellent care and professionally it was a great opportunity. Attila, Botond and Ricsi are great professionals. They gave us a lot of information, I learned a lot of new things in their environment and all my questions were answered by them. Attila provided a detailed insight into the behaviour of the wildlife there. I was also surprised to learn how the deer roar there. Also, the extent to which wolves follow the deer herds moving through the area. I was able to learn a lot of new practices during the construction of the wildlife management equipment, as well as perhaps pass on a useful piece of information or two myself to the boys. In my opinion, the Attilas have great expertise and it was nice to see how demanding they are about their work (maintaining and building dens, quality of stalking trails). I felt that they did their best to pass on as much information as possible and teach us different professional skills. For me, as someone who works in the profession, it was a special opportunity to come here and get answers to the questions that were important to me."
(Ákos Ángyán)

The following short film gives an insight into the students' experiences during their internship.

The short film was made by Ákos Ángyán, Csaba Györgyi Balázs, Vasilis Hadjiyerou, Márton László, Ákos Németh, Dániel Szabó, Dominik Winkler