Media Coverage

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CNN, World wide
Wildlife sanctuary gets high-tech shot in arm, December 2004.

BBC, Tomorrow's World, United Kingdom
Animal Tracking, 5 May 1999.

BBC News, United Kingdom
The hunter becomes the data inputter , 12 October 1998.

CNN Global Challenges, World-wide
Technology Impacts the World. On 21 December 2003, 28 December 2003, 4 January 2004 and 11 January 2004.

ABC News (USA), USA
News item on 10 July 1998.

CNN, World-wide
Ancient tracking takes modern twist. News item on 12 March 1999.

Time International, World wide
Keeping track of a dying art. By Peter Hawthorne. p.50, Special Report on The Communications Revolution, Vol. 154, No. 15, 11 October 1999.

Economist.com, UK
Hunter-programmes:  A new device puts an old skill to work. 10 June 2004.

New Scientist, United Kingdom
Keeping track - Bushmen are armed with cool kit to keep tabs on big game. By Laura Spinney. p.25, This week section, Number 2158, 31 Oct 1998.

WIRED Magazine
Trailblazer.  By Sanford Kwinter, June 2003.

Pour la Science, France
L'art du pisteur préservé pp.23-24, No 253, Novembre 1998.

Wired News, USA
Learning to Track Like a Bushman. By Megan Lindow, 22 January 2004.

Science et Nature, France
Sur la trace des pisteurs Bochimans par Evelyne Simonnet. pp.74-83, No 90, Fevriér - Mars 1999.

Geo, Germany
Buschmänner im CyberTracker-Einsatz. p. 213, Nr. 11, November 1998.

Financial Times, United Kingdom
Footprints along the road to cyberspace. By Vanessa Houlder. 7/8 November 1998.

GEO, Deutschland
Der Mann, Dem Keine Spur Entgeht. By Stefan Schomann (text) and Eric Vandeville (fotos),
p.180-184, May 2003.

IEEE Spectrum, USA
Louis Liebenberg: Call of the Wild. By Glen Zorpette, February 2006.

IEEE Spectrum, USA
Where the Wild Things are - The Back Story. By Glen Zorpette, February 2006.

Texas Park and Wildlife Magazine, USA
Otter Tracking. By Ciel Wharton, June 2006.

ICT Update, Netherlands
Botswana: Tracking wildlife in the Kalahari with a PDA. Issue 28, p 5, October 2005.

Die Woche, Germany
Jäger im Cyberspace, 22 December 2000.

Le Point, France
Louis Liebenberg sur la piste des animaux sauvages. By Caroline Dumay. No. 1302, 30 August 1997.

National Geographic News, World wide
Traditional Trackers, Technology in Fusion for Conservation. Today's News, September 28, 2000.

Conservation In Practice, USA
Backward Compatible - CyberTracker fuses ancient knowledge with cutting-edge technology.
By Nancy Bazilchuk, Vol.5 No.4, p.37-38, Fall 2004.

Discovery Channel Canada
CyberTracker TV Documentary on @discovery.ca, 29 October 2001.

National Geographic, USA
CyberTracker TV Documentary, 9 September 2001.

Discovery Channel, Germany
Fährtensucker online.

ABC News, Australia
Also TV coverage in Switzerland, France, Germany and Finland September 1998.

Discovery Channel Europe, Satellite TV world-wide
A documentary, The Science of Tracking, about the development of the CyberTracker system. This is detailed in The Times. Shown on 16 Oct 1997.

Discovery Channel USA, USA
September 1998. Spying on animals in the wild. Discovery Online, 1999.

National Wildlife Federation, Turner Original Productions, e.tv and Primedia Pictures, USA
Tracks - Tracking with the San of the Kalahari, January 2001.

Discovery Channel USA, USA
The Art of Tracking, Wild Visuals, October 1996.

National Geographic News
Hi-Tech Tracking Tool Tested in Wolf Recovery Efforts. By Hillary Mayell, 11 October 2001.

Eos, Netherlands
Spoorzoekers on line. By Wim Daems. pp.44-47, 16de jaargang, Nr. 1, Januari 1999.

The Times, United Kingdom
Stone Age Technology by Kathryn Bailey. A double-page article in the Interface section. 8 Oct 1997.
(On the web you will need to register and select the relevant issue from their library.)

The Sunday Times, United Kingdom
Bush computers track wildlife. By Sean Hargrave. p 5.12, Innovation section, 11 Oct 1998.
Stone Age skills meet the challenge of the techno-age by Kathryn Bailey. p16, Interface section, 8 Oct 1997. (On the web you will need to register and select the relevant issue from their library.)

USA Today, USA
Technology aids trackers in training. By Vera Haller. p.13A, 11 Feb 1999.

Computerworld, USA
Technology that follows the herd. By Matt Hamblen. p.69, Vol. 32, No. 50, 14 Dec 1998.

Ethos, United Kingdom
Computerised wildlife management in South Africa, 30 Sept 1996.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA
Scientists brings high-tech tracking device to remote rain forest. By Andrew Maykuth, 18 January 2005.

Frankfurter Allgemeine, Deutschland
Tiere auf Touchscreen. By Ulf von Rauchhaupt, p. 56-57, July 2003.

BBC
The Life of Mammals features the Persistence Hunt.

The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, USA
Fast Tracking. By Laurent Belsie, online article, 3 April 2003.

National Geographic Explorer, Deutschland
Arteschutz. 20 Mai 2002

National Geographic News
Hi-Tech Tracking Tool Tested in Wolf Recovery Efforts. By Hillary Mayell, 11 October 2001.

Financial Mail, South Africa
Conservation on track. By Sasha Planting, 3 December 2004.

New Zealand Surveyor, New Zealand
Palm computers for spatially referenced social surveys in upgrading informal settlements.
By Glynnis Barodien and Michael Barry, No. 294, June 2004.

Ford Foundation, South Africa
The Displaced Makulekes Recover Community Land and Wildlife Assets.
By Ulli Unijinee Poonan, p.46-51.

Saudi Aramco World, Saudi Arabia
Reading the Sands. By Peter Harrigan, March/April 2004, Volume 55 Number 2.

Southern Cross Review
CyberTrackers: Bushman and Information Technology. By Stephen Talbott, March 2004.

World Changing
Another World is Here: CyberTracker. By Alex Steffen, 26 January 2004.

Popular Mechanics, South African Edition
CyberTracker - When ancient tracking skills are combined with cutting-edge technology, global conservation takes a bow. By Gillian Warren-Brown, p.40-43, October 2003.

SAFM, South Africa
Radio interview on "Future Watch", Thursday 2 October 2003 at 2pm.

Weekend Argus, South Africa
San Tracking wisdom updated, INSIGHT, p.17, 27 September 2003.

Africa Geographic, South Africa
Techno Tracker. Around Africa, Hi-Tech Conservation, p.14-15, June 2003.

Country Life, South Africa
On the Right Track. By Julienne du Toit, p.56-59, January 2003.

Pervasive Computing
Scientists get help form handhelds. By Rebecca Deuel, p.93, July - September 2002.

The Star - Techcentral, Malaysia
Going high-tech in the forest. By Tan Kit Hoong, pp. 5,12-13, 11 July 2002.

NUCLEAS, Deutschland
Buschmänner im CyberTracker-Einsatz

HitWildlife, London, UK
Parklife: Africa - Episode 5: CyberTracker/Floods

Peter Moosleitners Magazin, Deutschland
Buschmänner gehen mit dem PC auf die Jagd. Steihzeit & Hightech, p. 32, Mai 2002.

Los Andes On Line, Argentina
Un encuentro de dos tiempos. 12 April 2002.

The Rolex Awards Journal
Animal tracking in the cyber age. By Karen de Leschery, pp. 14-23, No 13, Winter 2002.

http://www.Rol.ru, Russia
CyberTracker in Russia. 24 January 2002.

Reader's Digest
In Search of New Ideas - Electronic Tracker. By Graeme Addison, pp. 74-76, January 2002.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Conservationist Reaches for Handheld Computer to Track Wildlife By Nicole Wallace, p.43, Volume XIII, No. 23, 20 September 2001.

http://www.Arte-tv.com, Deutschland
Fahrtensucker online. 6 September 2001. Ein Film von Katja & Dominik von Eisenhardt-Rothe.

Computer Human Interaction, South Africa
A Field Computer for Animal Trackers by Edwin Blake, September 2001.

PiensaenPalm, Madrid
PDA's Palm Os en una expedicion al Polo Norte, Viernes, 11 de Mayo de 2001.

Palmtop-Pro Magazine, Germany
Louis Liebenbergs "CyberTracker" , Edition 22, 13 March 2001.

National Wildlife Federation, Turner Original Productions, e.tv and Primedia Pictures, USA
Tracks - Tracking with the San of the Kalahari January 2001.

Canoe Network, Canada
Conservation over poverty - Uprooted South Africans win land back, develop ecotourism

Indiantelevision.com, TUBE TALK
CNN's 'Spark' explore e-trends on 22 December 2004.

SABC Africa, South Africa
Live interview, on Monday 26 July 2004.

Phoenix TV, Germany
Auf Spurenscuche im 21. Jahrhundert. By John Kantara on 6 & 7 January 2004.

ZDF, Germany
Louis Liebenberg Buschmänner auf Spurensuche im 21. Jahrhundert on 1 December 2003.

3Sat, Germany
Science and Safari: Auf Spurensuche im 21. Jhd (5). By John Kantara on 18 July 2003.

Misereor, Germany
360° Die Geo-Reportage: Fährtensucher. Film von Katja und Dominik von Eisenhardt-Rothe
on 18 May 2003.

BBC World and Sky TV and ITN TV, World wide
A Reuters TV piece shown internationally.

50/50, South Africa
CyberTracker in Odzala, 23 July 2000.

VARA, Jules Unlimited, Netherlands
Jubileum Programma, November 2000.

Voxtours, Germany
Vox Network, Spurenlesen in der Kalahari Wüste on 28 March 1999.

Africa Journal, Africa-wide
A longer version of the Reuters TV piece.

Carte Blanche, South Africa
A magazine programme on MNet TV (a local subscription channel).

Science Matters, South Africa
SABC TV2, a localised version of the Reuters piece.

In Touch, South Africa
SABC3, 14 February 1999.

Pasella, Pieter Cilliers Productions, South Africa
A magazine program on SABC2.

Various, World wide
Various news items on television programmes in Africa, Australia, Europe, and the United States of America.

BOILER, Italy
Innovazione  -  Sulle tracce dei gorilla con il satellite. Di Megan Lindow.
Innovation  -  On the traces of the gorilla with the satellite. By Megan Lindow.

Techsoup, San Francisco, USA
High-Tech Helps Conservationists. 23 January 2004.

Future Now, California, USA
CyberTracking Animals. 22 January 2004.

News24.com, South Africa
Cyber Louis on the right track. By Hilary Prendini-Toffoli, 8 October 2003.

K&L Up to Speed, Belgium
Trailblazer - Wireless communicatie help geografie, 3 October 2003.

Mirabilis, Canada
Bushman using PDA's, 13 July 2003.

NICMOC BLOG
Trailblazer. Bush Space: Looking up and down at the same time. Wired Mag, June 2003 by San Foral Kwinter. Quest for the last readers of the spoor. Sunday Times, 25 October 1998 by Chris Barron.

Sunday Times, South Africa
Bushman tracking catches muggers. By Edwin Lombard, 2 November 2003.

DR, Denmark
Livet i trætoppene. Oversat af Christina Nelke.

Animals, USA
The Cyber-Trackers - computerized recording of Bushmen's knowledge about animals helps protect African Wildlife. By Joni Praded, September 2000.

CollegeBound Network
Take a Scholastic Wilderness Adventure. By Alexia Allen, September 2002.

Computer Bild, Germany
Buschtrommel by Thomas Knemeyer.

The Australian, Australia
Bushmen on track with PalmPilots. By Sean Hargrave, 20 October 1998.

Communications & Networking, Canada
Wildlife poachers find a new foe in GPS. By Lawrance Cummer, Vol.2, No.1, Jan 1999.

The National Post, Canada
The Kalahari bushmen join the computer age. By Vanessa Houlder, 24 Nov 1998.

Geographical, United Kingdom
Spirit of Enterprise, Dec 1998.

Corriere Della Sera, Italy
Boschimani col computer a caccia d'animali. By Giovanni Caprara, Ottobre 1998.

Ecologia International, Spain
La Renovacion en al arte del Rastreo. pp 14 & 15, No. 53, Diciembre 1998.

Marches Tropicaux et Mediterraneens, France
Trois scientifiques africains couronnes par Rolex. No. 2774, Janvier 1999.

Pen Computing, USA
Mystery Pen Computer in Africa. By Jack Neubart. p.12, October 1998.

Encyclopeadia Britannica Magazine
Arts Scene. Did you know . . . by Marcus Roberts, Vol 14, Issue1, p.10, American Visions,
Feb/Mar 1999.

Business Day, South Africa
Bushman trackers use hand-held computers. p.18, Survey Notebooks and Accessories, 11 Feb 1999.

The Sunday Independent, South Africa
Stone Age to Space Age. By Richard McNeill. p. 11, Sunday Life section, 22 Dec 1996.
Space age meets stone age as satellite-linked computers preserve the dying art of San tracking. By Peter Schaffer, 4 Aug 1996.

Mail & Guardian, South Africa
Keeping Conservation on Track. By Jennifer Stern, The Open Africa supplement, No. 26, Feb 1997.
Game Ranging goes Hi-Tech. By Eddie Koch, The Open Africa supplement, No. 21, Aug 1996.

Sunday Times, South Africa
Quest for the last readers of the spoor. By Chris Barron, p. 15, News section, 25 Oct 1998.
Trackers take hi-tech route to stalk poachers. By Charl de Villiers, 21 July 1996.
Hi-tech trackers used to try save forests. By Bobby Jordan, 21 November 1999.

The Star, South Africa
On spoor of a new century. By Ufrieda Ho, p.11, Trends section, 11 Nov 1998.

Cape Argus, South Africa
Illiterate San game rangers are boffins on the computer. By Emmanuel Koro, p.16, Cape Argus Issues section, 1 July 1999.
Enterprising SA takes double honours On track for success, p.11, Argus2 Life section, 19 Oct 1998.

Flamingo, Namibia
Air Namibia magazine. Tracking into the Millennium, pp.13-18, November 1998.

SA Computer Magazine, South Africa
High-tech Tracking, p.16, Dec 1998/Jan 1999.

Africa Environment & Wildlife, South Africa
SA Double-take in 1998, p.91, Vol. 6, No. 6, 1998.
Transformation initiatives in the Karoo National Park. By Robin Keene-Young, p.73, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1998.

Magnum, South Africa
High-Tech Trackers. By Brian Marsh, pp. 40-42, December 1998.

Die Burger, South Africa
Kapenaar wen met spoorsnyrekenaar, p.26, Aktueel section, 22 Oct 1998.
Rekenaars vat nou die veldwetenskap se spoor by Igna Schneider (18 July 1996).
Nuwe rekenaarprogram help Boesman spoorsny by Willem Pretorius.
Blikbrein help Elgin se plae vasvat by Igna Schneider (23 April 1998).

 Die Beeld, South Africa
Satelliete, rekenaars en spoorsnyers, p.5, Sake Beeld section, 10 November 1998.

Huisgenoot / You, South Africa
Ek laat Boesmans spoorsny met rekenaars / Whizzkid of the Kalahari, p.18, 19 Nov 1998.
(On the web you will have to register on the 24.com site; afterwards choose Issues in Society, then Environment, then the article i.e. "Whizzkid of the Kalahari")

Diamond Fields Advertiser, South Africa
Saving the lost art of tracking, 27 Oct 1998.

Download CyberTracker v2.77 (Russian website)

CyberTracker: la conservation des espèces novelle genération

CyberTracker: des observations localisées

CyberTrackers: Bushman and Information Technology

Invasive Species and the National Parks - Oregon Nature Mapping & GIS Software CyberTracker

CTC Project: An Exemplar of Network Learning. Wired News: Learning to Track like a Bushman

Learning to Track like a Bushman

Eco-Tech: Sulke tracce delle gazzelle . . .

Tecnologia e tradição tribal a serviço da natureza

Headmap Bushmen

Bilgisayarlı yerliler

ProgrammoZoo a természet védelmében

Визоры покоряют саванну

The Displaced Makulekes Recover Community Land and Wildlife Assets

Buschmänner im CyberTracker - Einsatz

Artenschutz mit CyberTracker

Protecting the Environment - making habitats sustainable.

Unique Park in the Congo - Now four times larger.

Ancient Art, Modern World Bushmen Trackers join the Digital Age.

University of Melbourne: Studying ways to collect social data

Pa jagt med bue, pil og computer

Science and Technology

Livet i trætoppene

Un encuentro de dos tiempos

Expo 2000, the CyberTracker and job creation in South Africa

http://www.beyondcomputers.org/jan_0500.html

http://text.bundesregierung.de/frameset/IxNavi.jsp?nodeID=1988

Séquence "Ailleurs et Autrement" - 11 et 16 Mars 1999

http://africancentury.com/wildlifenews/2000/07/534.html

http://www.woza.co.za/news/oct98/enterprise.htm

Shivre à la trace

http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9811/27/11270134.htm

Palm Software Details - CyberTracker Software

Artenschutz mit CyberTracker. Eine Neuerfindung schützt die Tier und Pflanzenwelt

http://wildnetafrica.co.za/bushcraft/dailynews/1999archive_4/archive_19990428_crafthippodiamonds.htm

Cybertracker Discussion Group

http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,001E3O,.html

http://www.mos.org/learn_more/courses-adults.html

http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/99apr2/28apr-conservation.html

PalmPilot & Tracking software combats conservation threats

Das Geschenk Afrika

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis/doc97html/miscrutger.html

Michigan Biodiversity Center

Ancient tracking takes modern twist

Computers in the palm of your hand

How evolution taught us to leave the right tip

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/1998/981106124.asp

CyberTracking with the PalmPilot

American Visions

African Mathematical Union

Calling up culture: information spaces and information shows us the virtual dynamics of inclusion and exclusion

CYTATY

Two South Africans scoop Rolex Awards: The Citizen.

Technologie à la poursuite des animaux

http://www.tvpc.co.za/Sci-tech/game/game.htm

Komputeryzacja Buszmenòw!

La Civiltà Contro I'Uomo

Awards for SA Entrepreneurs

http://www.klerksdorp.com/CoolLinks/agri.htm

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