Meet Our European CyberTracker Evaluators
John Rhyder
Trailing & Track & Sign Evaluator. External Evaluator Track & Sign
John is a naturalist, woodsman, certified wildlife tracker and writer, he is both founder and Head Instructor at Woodcraft School.
He has been teaching since 1994 and has made this a full-time career since then. He is a naturalist and is certified through CyberTracker wildlife tracking accreditation as Senior tracker. John is also qualified as both a track and sign and trailing evaluator one of only four people in Northern Europe who can assess the CyberTracker system in this region. To expand his knowledge John has also been certificated in Germany, Holland and Spain. He is a qualified arborist and also holds a University certificate in Species Identification and Biological Recording specialising in mammals, reptiles, bats, fungi and woodland plants and trees. John is the originator of the first accredited bushcraft and related programmes in the UK. He has written many articles for various publications and continues to explore projects in this genre as well as books. John has also been lucky enough travel widely and has studied and led bushcraft, tracking and wildlife tours in several countries.
Based in the UK

René Nauta
Track and sign Evaluator

Joscha Grolms
Track and sign evaluator
Joscha Grolms began studying the tracks and signs of European mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates in 2003.
He is the founder of Germanys well known “Tracking Intensive”, a yearlong tracking internship with remarkable results. Joscha became Germanys first Track & Sign Evaluator for CyberTracker Conservation and is the director of the wildlife tracking department at Wildniswissen.
He trains and certifies biologists as well as the general public in Northern Europe and works as a full-time professional since 2005.
Based in Germany

José M Galán
Trailing & Track & Sign Evaluator
José M Galán has been a Guide of the Doñana National Park since 1992. Senior Tracker since 2018. He is currently assigned to the Spanish Action Plan to against wildlife trafficking and international poaching.
Galan is a senior tracker and evaluator for both track and sign and trailing.

Jörn Kaufhold
Trailing Evaluator
“Jörn Kaufhold has lived in Slovakia since 2007. He has been running tracking courses in various countries in Central and Eastern Europe since 2010. He supports the Slovak Wildlife Society in wolf monitoring and training of students and volunteers.
He is responsible for teaching Trailing at Wilderness School Wildniswissen, as well as for bilateral projects in Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland. He developed a yearlong trailing intensive course, which he has been running since 2021.
In 2022 he was certified as a Trailing Specialist and in October 2025 he was appointed as Trailing Evaluator by CyberTracker Conservation.
Jörn Kaufhold is the author of two books about Slovakia.”
Global Standard in Wildlife Tracking
European Wildlife Tracking is part of the CyberTracker global organisation, which started in Africa to validate trackers & tracking.