Since 1985, Louis Liebenberg witnessed a steep decline in indigenous tracking skills in southern Africa.
As a means to identify those dwindling few with excellent tracking skills, and to help rebuild a body of tracking knowledge, Liebenberg designed and provided the first CyberTracker Tracker Certification in the Thornybush Nature Preserve near Kruger National Park in 1994.
The CyberTracker certification system has become the international standard for wildlife tracking skills in an increasing number of countries. Since 1994 more than 20 000 CyberTracker tracker certificates have been issued to more than 12 000 qualified trackers. This includes 36 Master Tracker certificates. Eight of them have passed away, but we know that there are more master trackers in the Kalahari and other indigenous hunter-gatherer communities who have not yet been evaluated.
In 2021 UNESCO commissioned Liebenberg to write, in collaboration with indigenous Kalahari San trackers, guidelines for Assessing and Certifying Indigenous Tracking Expertise and Skills.
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