A day with two WKCC cybertrackers

The San people of the Kalahari are world-famous for their tracking skills, an art that most learn from childhood.

Conservation International (CI) has employed traditional trackers to do research on animal behaviour and to conduct wildlife surveys for nature conservation using an electronic gadget called a CyberTracker.

Mmegi recently spoke to two CI cybertrackers, Kebogile Babotse and Oamogomotsa Cooper, who are both in their early 20s. According to Babotse and Cooper, their normal day starts at 6am when they prepare to go out into the field covering over 10 square kilometres. "When we leave early in the morning, we take 'strong' food with us like magwinya (fat cakes), samp, pap, beef and soup because we want the food to sustain us the whole day," Cooper says, adding that the also carry gallons of water with them.

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