Group curators
Agripina Cletus
- @Agripina
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Frankfurt Zoological Society
Karibu to the WILDLABS East Africa Community!
Why WE Exist
The East Africa community is the first WILDLABS regional hub. Started in 2022, it provides a space that creates opportunities for members to build their knowledge, skills, expertise, and reach. The idea behind creating the East Africa community spanned from the need to foster connections and collaborations of conservation and technology players in East Africa. We seek to make a genuine positive impact by tailoring resources and opportunities that will help solve conservation challenges in the region.
Follow Our Progress Since 2022
All we do at WILDLABS is firmly grounded on the community we serve and hope to serve! As part of this commitment, we dedicate time and resources to ensure that this platform is a reliable and credible resource to advance one’s knowledge and skills and be a step toward solving some of the most pressing conservation issues we face in East Africa.
We exist to fulfil the needs of conservation technology players in East Africa through resources and opportunities, to add value to their work, to inspire innovation and collaboration, and most importantly, to contribute towards making the world a better place!
What We Hope To Achieve
Purposefully designed to connect conservation technology practitioners and experts based in East Africa, the WILDLABS East Africa community is a great space to access and share conservation technology resources, ask and answer questions unique to the region, collaborate, and generate new, innovative ideas.
We encourage members to fill in knowledge and skills gaps by sharing their work and other resources to reduce and/or eliminate replication, leading to more streamlined and effective solutions. Through the conversations taking place within the community, members are able to connect with each other and get advice to advance their work, careers, and innovative ideas.
We hope to see interactions that generate new ideas that solve regional challenges, encourage innovation, introduce members to new applications of tech in conservation, and spark new questions on conservation tech in East Africa.
Resources
The WILDLABS team is dedicated to making conservation tech resources accessible to the whole community in a strategic and equitable manner. With a myriad of engaging events, programmes, conversations, and opportunities, the East Africa community will be a great virtual place to build one’s skills, knowledge, and networks. Growing a vibrant and diverse community is made possible by the collaborative efforts of all members through their interactions and their active participation in regional activities organized and supported by WILDLABS.
Some of the resources that will give you a feel of Conservation technology tools and systems implemented in East Africa include:
- Tech Tutors, East Africa
- InConversation, East Africa
- October 2024 East Africa Community Connect: Camera Traps
- December 2024 East Africa Community Connect: Drones
How To Get Involved
Are you keen on getting involved and understanding the intersection of conservation and technology in East Africa? This community offers an exceptional space to learn, share, collaborate and support one another on matters regarding conservation technology in East Africa. From posting articles, engaging in discussions, attending virtual and in-person events, to supporting, applying or taking part in programmes and opportunities in the community, these are some of the ways for you to get involved. The first thing you can do when joining our community is to attend our regular community gathering every other month. View the 2024 event calendar here.
The East Africa community exists because of each of you, and we hope you are happy to join and use the platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration and networking. You can join the community and interact with other members here. Get in touch with Agriphina Cletus and Cathy Njore, our WILDLABS East Africa Group Leaders.
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Group curators
- @Agripina
- | Miss
Frankfurt Zoological Society
As a wildlife conservationist, I am deeply committed to nature conservation, community empowerment, and wildlife research in Tanzania. I've actively engaged in community-based projects, passionately advocating for integrating local communities into conservation.
- 3 Resources
- 23 Discussions
- 6 Groups
Movement Ecologist studying the where, why, and how animals move throughout our world. Current work is investigating the movement and energetics of large neotropical bats in a changing environment with ephemeral resources.
- 0 Resources
- 23 Discussions
- 22 Groups
- @matt_hron
- | He/Him
Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
Product Manager at Wildlife Protection Solutions
- 0 Resources
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- 8 Groups
- @benitezl
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- @Kathinja
- | He
A Geography Graduate with a keen interest in Geographic Information systems(GIS), a climate enthusiast, sustainable development, conservation effort and green technologies
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 7 Groups
Martin Wainaina Chege is a registered Geomatics Expert with experience in GIS software development, Remote sensing, Surveying, and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) with theoretical knowledge, technical and practical skills in IoT, Software Engineering, data
- 1 Resources
- 7 Discussions
- 5 Groups
- @ImaniWilson
- | She / Her
Zoology with a placement year graduate from Bangor University. Interested in large African mammal movement and behaviour in response to climate change, particularly African elephants
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 13 Groups
I am conservation and sustainability researcher based in Tanzania with 15+ years of field work experience. I enjoy working, mentoring and engage youth in conservation efforts and using technology to enhance my work.
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- 0 Discussions
- 1 Groups
Fauna & Flora
Working in marine conservation in Africa (with a quite strong focus on East Africa so far) with Fauna & Flora International.
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- 0 Discussions
- 4 Groups
- @DibblexLesalon
- | Mr
Dibblex Lesalon is the visionary force behind the captivating podcast, Boots on the Ground, he is the Creative Lead, embracing the power of one-on-one conversations to amplify the voices for conservation. A masterful host, he orchestrates compelling dialogues and seamlessly navig
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- 2 Groups
Project Ngulia
Project Manager and Conservation Tech Implementer
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 1 Groups
I am an environmental enthusiast with great passion for conservation, preservation and protecting the environment and wildlife and the natural resources. With
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- 3 Groups
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River Monitoring Sensors
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Would you consider using LoRaWAN technology?
LoRaWAN features super low power consumption and ultra-long-range communication, very suitable for the wild :)
One LoRaWAN gateway can connect to up to 200 sensors within the range of 2km to 10km (depending on the environment and antenna etc.)
You can check out the combination of the following:
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Ben Letcher from the comment below will be able to provide much more in-depth info, but feel free to email me at eric.greenlee.96@gmail.com
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East Africa Programme Officer
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Any questions you'd like answered in our Tech Tutors session: 'How do I create an aerial survey flight plan for wildlife monitoring?'
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Congo Basin activity?
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25 April 2023 5:08pm
greetings!
i sent you a PM regarding this, feel free to contact me however is most convenient for you -
regards,
chris
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WILDLABS
and 2 more
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Very Insightful Ken! Great to see how the team at Ol Pejeta has been keen on integrating EarthRanger with other software, to have everything in a single system and better monitor wildlife and manage resources.
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Netty,
I was recently working with a client integrating Internet of Things hardware alerts through EarthRanger to automatically create a work order and dispatch fieldworkers to deal with the alert issue. Unfortunately the client has become very busy and the work put on hold, but we are interested in completing the integration to the benefit of all those using EarthRanger. Do you have a contact at EarthRanger who we could deal with directly?
Rupert
16 March 2023 5:29pm
Hi Rupert,
My name is Jordan Steward and I lead comms and marketing for EarthRanger. Happy to put you in contact with a member of our team who can help you out here. My email is jordans@earthranger.com.
Thanks,
Jordan
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and 1 more
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15 February 2023 9:55am
30 June 2023 7:05pm
Hi Kennedy, this is Ben from the USGS. There are many ways to monitor stream flow, but most are expensive and time-consuming. We have recently come up with an alternative that uses cameras and images combined with AI to estimate relative flow. There is a growing database here:
Feel free to get in touch if this seems like it could help, Ben at bletcher@usgs.gov