Course 5. The Tracker Mentoring Manual – Trailing Animals in Southern Africa is an interactive, “how-to” course from Tracker Mentoring about following tracks and signs to find animals. It features practical exercises and dynamic teaching stories about the art and science of trailing.
Trailing can be considered the epitome of tracking. It’s where you put together the A, B, C’s that you learned in studying tracks and signs into sentences and paragraphs that tell a story of how an animal moves on the land and how it is moved by the land.
Remember, you aren’t a full tracker until you are doing ALL of the following:
“Trackers identify, interpret, follow, and find.” (This is our Tracker Mentoring motto.)
Go beyond track and sign id, into the world of trailing!
The course includes a digital download of The Tracker Mentoring Manual – Trailing Animals in Southern Africa.
Extra benefits of enrolling in the course include membership in the private Facebook group and the Tracker Mentoring eLearning centre. There, you will find bonus materials (journal templates, species lists, etc.), first access to newly documented information about key aspects of trailing, such as aging, animal behaviors, and safe approaches in areas with dangerous animals, that will help with your trailing!, and a community of peers undertaking the same journey.
The course is mentored online and through social media by Lee Gutteridge and Kersey Lawrence, who are both Senior Trackers and Evaluators of trackers with CyberTracker Conservation, the international “Gold Standard” for wildlife tracker training and certification.
You will need access to the internet to participate in the course.
