Course 1. Introduction to Tracking in Southern Africa

This course is also privately available for academic groups. Please contact us for prices and information.

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Course 1. The Tracker Mentoring Manual – Introduction to Tracking in Southern Africa, is designed to give you a process for learning that will maximize your remote “dirt time” wherever you are, whether you live in the city with an occasional holiday into wilder places, or you live a fully immersed life in the bush. Even at times when you can’t get outside, you can progress in your learning through books, journaling, and using our online resources. It’s a “how-to” book to teach you how to develop the skills involved in seeing the world through the eyes of a tracker. There are details revealed about tracks and signs, trailing, behaviours, etc., on almost every page, but this course isn’t about the specifics, it’s about the process. You can spend a few weeks learning reading and doing some of the assignments, or you can spend a lifetime doing the daily routines, and become better and better, over time. How you use it is up to you. In addition to the stories and instruction, there are 10 Daily Routines and 30 Assignments to guide you in “thinking like a tracker.”

The course includes a digital download of The Tracker Mentoring Manual – Introduction to Tracking in Southern Africa, and membership in the private Facebook group and the Tracker Mentoring eLearning centre. As a student on the course, you will have first access to newly documented bird tracks and signs!

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.