Tracks4Life

We are a bushcraft, survival and tracking school based within the Exmoor National Park. An area of great beauty and outstanding wildlife. Tracks4life's founder and principal instructor is Jonathan Simons, an ecologist, birdwatcher and tracker with over 20 years field experience.

Jonathan has been fascinated by the natural world from a very early age, receiving his first pair of binoculars as a boy of nine, he began birdwatching in earnest. He was soon to be found spending hours in his 'playground', the local woods, fields, ponds and colliery workings of County Durham.

Camping soon followed whilst in the Scouts and he undertook a week long exploration and camping trip in the Lake District, aged 15. Jonathan has been travelling ever since!

This passion for nature went to degree level, obtaining a BSC (Hons) in Biology (Ecology) and later an MPhil in avian/aircraft interactions at Cardiff University. Jonathan 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.

Interspersed with these projects Jonathan has built up nearly 20 years of teaching experience in many disciplines, amongst others, as a motorcycle instructorand a martialarts instructor.  In other roles over the years Jonathan has been responsible for mentoring and team leading along with risk assessment, health and safety and first aid.

Jonathan is currently offering individual training and specialised support in the fields of survival, bushcraft and tracking including teaching with the UK's foremost tracking school, Shadowhawk.

Through the courses and activities offered by Tracks4life, Jonathan provides excellent training in bushcraft, survival and tracking, 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.