CONNECT
WITH YOUR WILD NEIGHBORS
Welcome! Tracking Connection offers wildlife tracking education and consulting services to help you connect with local wildlife and build understanding of wildlife habitat and travel corridors. Browse our offerings below.
Offerings
Online Learning
Wildlife Tracking Course
An 8-lesson introduction to wildlife tracking in the northeast, taken at your own pace.
Tracking Immersion Programs
In-depth programs that span several weeks or months, offered in the Burlington VT area and in the Jeffersonville VT area, in partnership with Cold Hollow to Canada.
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Wildlife Tracking Walks & Talks
Field training or slideshow presentations (in-person or on Zoom) customized to you and your group. Part-day, full-day and multi-day options available.
Programs and services are offered by Sophie Mazowita, a naturalist educator, consulting ecologist and certified wildlife tracker based in northern Vermont.
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Affiliations
Tracking Connection manages the wildlife monitoring and community science programs for Cold Hollow to Canada (CHC), where Sophie holds the title of Community Science Coordinator. Several of our training events, including Immersion Programs and Track & Sign Certifications, are offered in collaboration with CHC. The CHC wildlife programs engage volunteers to monitor conservation priority parcels through trail cams and track & sign. Tracking Connection is also launching a new project to document wildlife trails to verify suspected wildlife corridors in the CHC region. Click here to learn more.
Sophie serves as Operations Manager for Tracker Certification North America (TCNA), which offers professional-level training and certification of wildlife trackers based on the CyberTracker system (a certification process developed in collaboration with indigenous trackers in subsaharan Africa). In addition to general management of the nonprofit organization, Sophie hosts the biannual online North American Wildlife Tracker Conference, as well as monthly Tracker Tuesday online events that are free and open to the public. She also initiated and oversees TCNA's Certified Wildlife Trackers Association and supports new host organizations that would like to bring a Certification event to their area.
