Pablo served in the British Army for 12 years. There he picked up the rudiments of living off the land, field craft skills and a few survival and tracking skills.

For most of his service he was a Physical Training Instructor and specialised in expedition leading and adventure training. After leaving the forces, he carried on these survival and wilderness skills as a pastime but related them more to watching wildlife. He uses bushcraft, tracking and field craft skills to get as close as he can to wildlife.

Wildlife and Tracking:

Pablo is a life-long wildlife and tracking enthusiast. He was an instructor with Shadowhawk Tracking School and has travelled to Southern Africa to learn tracking from the Ju'/Hoansi, Southern Africa's indigenous Hunter Gatherer people and expert trackers.

Forensic Tracking:

Pablo's second career was in law enforcement and culminated in him being a senior detective in a UK law enforcement agency. This has given him the background to pursue tracking not just as a past-time but as a professional forensic tracker.

Woodlife Trails (Forensics) can provide Missing Person (MISPERS), Search and Rescue (SAR) and other forensic searching services to agencies wishing to either train personnel or who require such Forensic Tracking Services.

Bushcraft:

The Bushcraft ethos of working close to nature and using natural resources to be as comfortable as possible in an outdoor environment suits Pablo's easy going attitude to the outdoors.

He and JP Lamoureaux have now formed Woodlife Trails and  now run a selection of nature-based bushcraft and tracking courses at a number of locations but particularly at ancient Hatfield Forest in association with the Read more...

Teaching Training and Instructing:

Pablo has a Master's degree in Learning and Development and a Cert Ed. He is a qualified NVQ assessor and is qualified to teach and assess Teaching in the Life-long Learning Sector programmes (PTTLS, CTTLS and DTTLS).

He has directed strategic management groups on corporate Senior Management Development Courses and has designed and delivered learning and development courses for UK law enforcement in a variety of areas including Detective Training, Search Training and Personal Safety Training.

This experience enables Pablo to lead Corporate and other Educational groups on development and educational programmes.

Writing:

Pablo is the regular Wildlife writer for

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He has had an article on "Ticks" published in "Traditional Naturopathic Remedies and Tips" by Roderick Lane , M.D and has contributed to the current version of the Scouting Manual published by Haynes.