GAME Trackers AFRICA

Jaco Oosthuizen was born in 1973 in the war stricken northern part of Namibia on a cattle ranch, east of the Etosha National Park, amongst an entire family of mostly avid cattle raiding lion hunters. His father single handedly hunted his first lion at age 14 (1948) – ofcourse, with this background, one can understand where his hunting heritage originated from. He first qualified as a PH back in 1994, after which he also ended up in Kenya and subsequently, Tanzania. His love for the unspoiled wilderness of his beloved east Africa of course truly inspired him to take his career to a different level.
Jaco first joined SCI in 1996 and finally became an SCI life member in 2010. He has been participating in the SCI conventions since 1998 and in the process regard himself to have been honored to support SCI in very many ways for more than 24 years now, contributing to not only the protection of our hunting heritage, but also fighting endlessly for conservation of African wildlife and it’s habitat by means of sustainable utilization. In addition to this, Jaco and his company, Game Trackers Africa, also support numerous SCI chapters.
Previously, Jaco was also honored to have won the DSC Outfitter of the year award (2008) and Safari Club International Professional Hunter of the year 2020.
He is one of only a very few PH’s who not only owns and outfits his own companies in the various countries he hunts, but also holding his own licenses in these respective countries which he believes puts him in a very unique situation. He prides himself in offering every hunter the opportunity to experience authentic hunting adventures while on Safari. He has hunted in world famous safari areas such as the Selous Game Reserve, Rungwa Game Reserve, Moyowosi / Kigosi Game Reserve, Masailand in Northern Tanzania, Cameroon (Savanna & forest), Northern Namibia (including Kaokoveld and Zambesi Region), South Africa: Limpopo, Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape as well as Botswana & Zimbabwe, amongst others.
Free Range hunting is his trade mark; demanding client satisfaction by means of a combination of luxury traditional African hunting safari experiences and ethical take off of older male specimens, managing wildlife populations while having his clients enjoy old Africa under the best possible circumstances in the modern-day context; …having them live the African Legacy!