Lee is the owner of Nature Guide Training in Southern Africa. He has been involved in guiding and related industries for over 25 years. He started his career as an Army Tracker and has subsequently been an Anti-poacher Ranger, Head Ranger, Lodge Manager and Reserve Manager during his career.
He is the 7th of 10 currently qualified Field Guides of Southern Africa (FGASA) Scout guides in South Africa, with FGASA Level 3, and SKS qualifications in Dangerous Animals (DA), Dangerous Game (DG), Birding and Wild Flowers. He is also a Palaeo-anthropological specialist guide and a Senior Tracker and Tracking instructor and assessor on the CyberTracker system. He is a recognized Assessor and Trainer for FGASA with more than fifteen years of assessing and training experience in the field. He also completed a diploma in Game Ranch Management during the mid-nineties.
Lee conducts training for reserves across Southern Africa including Entabeni, Ulusaba, Inyati, Leopard Hills, Mahali Mzuri – Kenya, Akagera National Park – Rwanda, Bushcamp Company – South Luangwa and many more. He has guided and managed camps and reserves in the Kruger Park, Sabi Sands, Zambia, Waterberg, Zimbabwe and Botswana and has a wealth of experience to share. He is an avid wildlife photographer and has a great passion for the smaller and more overlooked aspects of the bush and wildlife. He has a unique way of getting even the most hard to comprehend aspects across to all of his students and his enthusiasm is infectious.
He has authored 9 books so far including the best selling South African Bushveld – a field guide from the Waterberg (2008), as well as co-authoring the Okavango field guide (Gutteridge and Reumerman 2011), Bushman Rock Art (Forssman and Gutteridge 2011), Bushveld – Including the Kruger Lowveld, and Mammal Tracks and Signs of Southern Africa (with drawings from Louis Liebenberg), Invertebrate Tracks and Signs of Southern Africa (2017), A Tracker’s Tale (2019), Bird Tracks and Signs of Southern Africa (2020), and The Tracker Mentoring Manual (2020 with Dr. Kersey Lawrence).
The Tracker Mentoring Manual uses Southern African examples but can be used by anyone, anywhere in the world, to develop good tracking habits that will lead to expertise over time. The manual is stand alone, but can also be used in conjunction with the first of our correspondence and online tracking courses at TrackerMentoring.com, where students can become part of a worldwide network of peers embarking on the same journey.
Please click here to view Lee’s Resume, and click on the following links: Nature Guide Training, Tau Anthropological Safaris, or Lee Gutteridge Consulting to for more information about Lee.
