Ian Maxwell is a tracker

Tracking (hunting)

Tracking in hunting and ecology is the science and art of observing animal tracks and other signs, with the goal of gaining understanding of the landscape and the animal being tracked...

 who tracks wildlife and humans in desert

Desert

A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Most deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than...

s and jungle

Jungle

A Jungle is an area of land in the tropics overgrown with dense vegetation.The word jungle originates from the Sanskrit word jangala which referred to uncultivated land. Although the Sanskrit word refers to "dry land", it has been suggested that an Anglo-Indian interpretation led to its...

s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...

. He was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship for life for his work in conservation, and he wrote Animal Tracks ID and Techniques.He received a medal from the Queen at Buckingham Place for Tracking and Conservation of Big Cats.

He has presented Big Cat Track on Animal Planet and Maxs Big Tracks on Discovery Animal Planet on TV. He is a public speaker and operates a tracking school in the UK called Shadowhawk.
He is a specialist in the art of detection.