Tracks4Life

Tracks4Life is a school offering both tracking courses and bushcraft courses/survival courses based within the Exmoor National Park, UK. An area of great beauty and outstanding wildlife. Tracks4life's founder and principal instructor is Jonathan Simons who as well as being a regular Shadowhawk Tracking Instructor, is also an ecologist, birdwatcher, bushcrafter, writer and tracker with over 20 years field experience.

Jonathan Simons is very passionate about wildlife tracking and people tracking and has served a 5 year apprenticeship under the tutelage of Ian 'Max' Maxwell of the Shadowhawk Tracker School. He has tracked animals and people in many areas from Portugal to Poland and from the USA to Africa. Jonathan Simons has also been awarded Advanced tracking certificates in temperate and semi-arid climates as well as Tactical Tracking Level 1.

This passion for nature and the outdoors went to degree level, obtaining a BSC (Hons) in Biology (Ecology) and later an MPhil in avian/aircraft interactions at Cardiff University. Jonathan Simons has worked extensively within the nature conservation arena, undertaking survey and research work, both at home and abroad, with extensive bush living expeditions in South America and the West Indies.

He now writes a regular article on tracking for Bushcraft & Survival Skills magazine, appears regulaly on BBC Radio Somerset and is working on a number of television and DVD projects.

Tracks4Life can offer you individual training and specialised support through their tracking courses, bushcraft courses and survival courses, including teaching at the Shadowhawk Tracker School as a Shadowhawk Tracking Instructor.

Through the courses and activities offered by Tracks4life, Jonathan Simons provides excellent training in wildlife tracking/person tracking and bushcraft and survival, but much more than that through nature, nurture and spirituality he helps people to slow down, pause and look at their life from a new perspective.