Brane T. Cervek is a manager and founder of Survival
School - "S.S.F.N. - THE SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL FROM NATURE
- Special Forces Training" based in Slovenia. As you may
know, S.S.F.N. is an professional organization that
provides S.E.R.E. and SURVIVAL trainings for the Armed
Forces, working with Specialist military units he has
been teaching hostile environment Survival, Escape and
Evasion courses for over 30 years.
On initiative of Australian organization Department for
Aboriginal Affairs, South Australia, he was exploring
the culture and the skill of survival of natives in
Australia. Living among natives Aborigines, he was the
first European adopted among tribes like Ngarinyin,
Wororra, Wunambul and Kerraywoorroong. He established a
society SAAGS (Slovenian Australian Aboriginal
Geographic Society) in order to help people understand
the culture of Aborigines. SAAGS organizes a unique
visit of tribes Ngarinyin, Wororra and Wunambul in
Slovenia as a cultural exchange.
After 2 years of training in Aboriginal Australia he
gets the status of international certified Nature
Survival Instructor and, as only representative in
Europe with such experience, trains army special units,
reconnaissance unit, and army pilots at home and over
the world. He collaborated with the members of the USA,
British; Australian, French, Israel and Italian Special Forces units. Today, he is
collaborating with the Ministry of Defense RS, Special
Forces ESD Slovenian army, Air Force School SVL, Officer
Candidate School and reconnaissance units 10 and 20 MOTB
and trains them for the most difficult missions in Iraq,
Lebanon, Chad etc. on all geographic areas. Brane and
SSFN received many commendations and awards.
The civil part of his training was intended for mountain
rescuers, civil pilots and aircrew, war reporters,
individuals, airsoft groups, schools and companies
(Team-buildings) and families with children. He filmed
three documentary “Odklop” and "Survival Aboriginal Australia" and lately a Survival in the wilderness TV series in total of 28 epizodes. He writes professional
articles and prepares lengthy literature in the field of
Encyclopedia of survival in the wild.