2027 ExpeditionTeam
Tracking The Kalahari Expeditions is led by a diverse and talented group of naturalists, trackers, community leaders and outdoor and wilderness leadership professionals. The team hails from England, the United States, South Africa, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia. In addition to the core team listed below, there is a large Ju/Hoansi community that supports our project and will be present during our time together in the Kalahari.
Robin Bowman
Expedition Director, Facilitator
& Guide
Tracker, deep ecologist and bird language expert, Robin has over 25 years experience as a nature connection educator and facilitator. Robin has led groups to the Kalahari since 2016. Known for his infectious passion for nature and playful humour, Robin has created and leads a variety of wilderness skills and land projects in the UK.
Marcus Reynerson
Lead Guide & Facilitator
Marcus is a naturalist, educator, facilitator, photographer and filmmaker. He was Program Manager for the environmental leadership program at the Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA. He is currently an evaluator with CyberTracker Conservation of North America.
Dam Debe
Kalahari Master Tracker Project Manager
Dam is the Project Manager and the heartbeat for the Kalahari Master Tracker Project. Being Louis’s right hand man on the ground, he is the glue which holds it all together. He is also a Tracking Evaluator in the CyberTracker system. Dam is a very skilled naturalist and tracker and is on the path to attain his Master Tracker certificate.
Sandy Reed
Guide, Facilitator & Program Registrar
Sandy has spent her life teaching, both outdoors and inside the classroom. She is a National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow and traveled to Antarctica as a Nat Geo Teacher Explorer in 2024. She has also earned several environmental teaching awards and is a certified tracker in South Africa, Namibia and the United States.
/Ui Kunta
Ju/Hoansi Master Tracker & Evaluator
/Ui Kunta is a Master Tracker with CyberTracker and a tracking evaluator with the Kalahari Master Tracker Program. He is a skilled traditional bowhunter and has travelled the globe training, consulting, and guiding people in the art and science of wildlife tracking. He recently went to Tanzania to work with the Hadza as part of a UNESCO funded project.
/Ui G/aq'o
Ju/Hoansi Master Tracker & Evaluator
/Ui G/aq'o is a Master Tracker with CyberTracker and a tracking evaluator with the Kalahari Master Tracker Program. He is a skilled traitional bowhunter and has travelled the globe training, consulting, and guiding people in the art and science of wildlife tracking.
Chris Salisbury
Guide and Facilitator
Chris Salisbury is founder and director of WildWise since 1999. With a background in the theatre, training in therapy and a career in outdoor education, he uses every creative means at his disposal to encourage people to enjoy and value the natural world on the courses and programmes he runs for WildWise. Chris directs WildWIse's acclaimed "Call of the Foundation" for educators-in-training.
Merilee Bradford
Expedition Kitchen Manager & Facilitator
Born and raised in the wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., Merilee’s childhood was shaped by the Puget Sound and deep forests. This sparked an early dream of building her own cabin and living off the land, fueling a lifelong passion for making everything from clothing, bone art and pottery to preserved wild foods.
Di//Xao ≠Oma
Ju/Hoansi Elder Master Tracker
Di//Xao is an Elder Master Tracker in the CyberTracker system and and Elder within the Ju/‘Hoansi community at large. Her abundance of natural history knowledge of wildlife, track and sign, and plants brings so much to our time in the Kalahari. She also is a master beadworker and her storyteller.​
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≠Oma Daqm
Ju/Hoansi Master Tracker and Evaluator
≠Oma started tracking from a young age. His father, was an accomplished bow hunter but as his eye sight
deteriorated when ≠Oma was around six, he would call on his young son to help trail a wounded antelope he had shot. So over the years ≠Oma became an excellent tracker in his own right.
Sam Kouzarides
Guide, Facilitator & Logistics Manager
With a background in nature conservation and a lifelong love of wild places and the skills needed to navigate them, Sam has been leading groups of people of all ages into the wild places of England and abroad for over 10 years. As well as a deep fascination in the tracking and wildlife elements of the expedition, Sam is passionate about the cultural and intergenerational aspect of the experience.
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Louis Liebenberg
Lead Project Advisor
Though not traveling to the Kalahari in 2026, Louis remains the lead visionary behind the Kalahari Master Tracker Project, which has been at the center of CyberTracker since its inception. The project continues to serve as a venue to find remaining masters and cultivate new ones in the greater Kalahari region and support them through generating a sustainable ongoing economy and gainful employment not just for the trackers, but their families and community at large.
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