Who We Are

The Kalahari Camelback Trackers Project is a long-term vision to improve biodiversity monitoring and wildlife-habitat conservation, alleviate extreme poverty, strengthen ties between remote communities and their traditional lands, and save an Intangible Cultural Heritage at the root of humanity. This is being realized through professionalizing tracking among the world’s first people in the largest, least-disturbed landscape remaining on the African continent south of the Sahara.

This project is catapulting erstwhile Kalahari hunter-gatherers turned impoverished pastoralists straight into the knowledge economy. Leveraging their exceptional tracking talents combined with advances in tracking science, digital field data-collection platforms, and the most efficient mode of desert transportation, the Kalahari trackers are undergoing a transformation into a professional scientific data-collecting force for conservation. With it comes hope for their families, communities, ancestral lands, and a better future.