Group curators
Agripina Cletus
- @Agripina
- | Miss
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.
Header Image: @Dylan Habil
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
Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF)
Director (Conservation) and Co-Founder of GCF
- 1 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 1 Groups
An Environmental sciences and Management graduate from SUA, passionate and eager to drive change to the Environment, making World a better place for present and future generations.
- 4 Resources
- 35 Discussions
- 14 Groups
- @AngelikaNocon
- | she/her
I am a Nonprofit Relations Manager at Tech To The Rescue - a global platform connecting nonprofit organizations with tech companies.
- 0 Resources
- 3 Discussions
- 4 Groups
I'm a researcher in aquatic sciences, studying connections between fish biology and endocrine systems that govern growth and reproduction, contributing to fisheries management, conservation efforts and aquaculture innovations.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 5 Groups
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 1 Groups
- @emyreen
- | Emeline
Emelineis a dedicated community development professional and passionate advocate against gender-based violence. With extensive experience in facilitating community work, Emeline is committed to fostering inclusive and supportive environments. Their work focuses on empowering indi
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 1 Groups
- @fkitine
- | She/Her
Fatma is an Ecologist by profession. Fatma is winding up her MSc. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management. She also holds BSc. Wildlife Management. Fatma is very passionate with political ecology. She is among the WWF Young Environmentalist trainees (YETS) who saved as change agent
- 1 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 4 Groups
- @EvelyneNgugi
- | she/her
Environmentalist and AI Tutor
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 12 Groups
- @Priscilla_Shao
- | she/Her
I am a 27 year old working in at the Gombe Stream Research Center as a Veterinary Laboratory Technician. Our main aim is the conservation of wild chimpanzees found in the Gombe National park.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 1 Groups
Conservation Biologist
- 2 Resources
- 16 Discussions
- 7 Groups
- @Fatuma
- | She/Her
I aim to transition my career towards conservation technology after gaining two years of experience in the tech industry.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 14 Groups
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Behavioral Ecologist
- 1 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 14 Groups
Funding
RCMRD Map Competition 2022
Netty Cheruto
Through this Competition, RCMRD aims to enhance the role of Geo-conservation in Protected Areas Management and Environmental Conservation. With a Total Prize Tag of 10,000 Euros, participants will be required to use...
19 August 2022
Careers
Developer, Mara Elephant Project
Stephanie O'Donnell
Mara Elephant Project is looking to hire a developer to be based full-time in Nairobi at the Mara Elephant Project office located on Karen. The role will also require frequent field visits to the project HQ located in...
19 August 2022
Article
From the Field: An interview with Arjun Dheer
Netty Cheruto
In this interview with wildlife scientist Arjun Dheer, we discuss pressing conservation issues in Africa, his experiences working as a wildlife researcher in several African countries, and a look into the future of...
11 August 2022
Article
CERES TAG
Kim Lane
Ceres Tag sends just in time alerts and GPS location to have the power to track and trace.
22 July 2022
Article
#AGU22, where Science Leads the Future, will take place in Chicago and online everywhere on 12th-16th December. Submit your abstract by 3rd August, for the Global Environmental change session on: Applications of Earth...
18 July 2022
Careers
Earth Species Project - Senior AI Research Scientist
Andrea Austin
The Earth Species Project (ESP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to decoding animal communication and translating non-human language.
15 July 2022
Article
In an effort to sustainably supply clean water within the conservancy, Ol Pejeta has installed Hydropanels; a water technology that utilizes solar energy to extract clean, pollutant-free drinking water from the...
29 June 2022
Article
In May, we kicked off the six month Women in Conservation Tech programme with our first in-person workshop. This was a jam-packed week of technical training, field activities, professional development and empowerment...
14 June 2022
Article
Baotree addresses the challenge of data collection at the grassroots level; to ensure participatory, accurate and verifiable data is captured. A software piloted in Kenya and looking to scale globally, Baotree has so...
9 June 2022
Careers
Conservation Science Data Specialist
Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF)
Giraffe Conservation Foundation is seeking a Conservation Science Data Specialist, with a background in Computer sciences or Natural sciences, to assist with the day-to-day management and analysis of data to advance...
17 May 2022
Community Announcement
Apply now: Women in Conservation Technology Programme, Kenya
Stephanie O'Donnell
Are you an early career Kenyan conservationist looking to explore emerging conservation technologies while networking with a strong cohort of other female leaders? Apply now for our 6-month Women in Conservation Tech...
8 March 2022
Article
EarthRanger Announces Inaugural Conservation Tech Award Recipients
Allen Institute for AI
On 3rd November 2021, Earthranger Announced Giraffe Conservation Foundation and Lion Guardians as the inaugral Conservation Tech Award Recipients. The two organizations are Harnessing the Power of Technology to Protect...
3 November 2021
October 2025
event
Lacey Hughey and 3 more
November 2023
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| Hi, I have used a commercial company for drone work for my PhD and they were willing to give me a significant discount for research purposes. One thing to consider is that in SA a... |
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Drones, East Africa Community | 1 year 3 months ago | |
| Thank you for this! Will take a look. |
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Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Geospatial | 1 year 4 months ago | |
| Hi folks! Happy 2024 and thanks in advance for your patience in case I over-used tags. If you’re using any form of natural language... |
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AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Software Development, Wildlife Crime, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 1 year 4 months ago | |
| Digital Earth Africa are doing fantastic work to make Earth Observation data free and accessible, delivering decision-ready products to the... |
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East Africa Community, Geospatial | 1 year 7 months ago | |
| Alina has been a longtime friend of WILDLABS, and has been incredibly generous about sharing her knowledge as a Tech Tutor, an expert... |
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East Africa Community, Protected Area Management Tools | 1 year 8 months ago | |
| Am helping a conservation project use iNaturalist for their work in bio-diversity monitoring and also citizen science, STEM program with... |
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Community Base, Citizen Science, East Africa Community | 1 year 8 months ago | |
| Lovely to hear from you Kylie :) Thanks so much for contributing your thoughts and ideas towards this. |
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East Africa Community | 1 year 9 months ago | |
| Conservation Training Programs:Tropical Biology AssociationTraining conservation leaders and giving them the skills and support they need to be effective on the ground. TBA... |
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East Africa Community, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 1 year 9 months ago | |
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Climate Change, Community Base, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Software Development | 1 year 9 months ago | ||
| @richardturere Hello :) and a warm welcome to WILDLABS! Here is the link to @Lekato Samuel Lekato - Founder and Chairman, Enduata Emaa CBO. Sam is interested in conservation... |
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Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 1 year 9 months ago | |
| 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 Community, Sensors | 1 year 10 months ago | |
| Hey everyone,On Thursday 11th May, Howard Frederick from Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute will be covering a Tech... |
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Community Base, East Africa Community, Protected Area Management Tools | 2 years ago |
How do I get started with mobile phones in sea turtle monitoring?
13 February 2023 10:01am
How do I get started with setting up my camera trap to monitor wildlife?
6 February 2023 5:42pm
Gender Equality in Conservation
30 January 2023 10:27am
Africa in Conservation Biology
30 January 2023 8:42am
Join us for Tech Tutors: East Africa
18 January 2023 9:13am
How do I fit GPS satellite tags to remotely monitor giraffe movements?
18 January 2023 9:05am
International Congress for Conservation Biology
16 January 2023 2:53pm
Frontiers Symposium: Digital tools for reversing environmental degradation
5 October 2022 10:23am
Conservation leadership: Learning
4 October 2022 2:29pm
ONLINE COURSE: Monitoring and Evaluation for Wildlife Conservation
4 October 2022 2:04pm
ONLINE COURSE: Project Management for Wildlife Conservation
4 October 2022 2:00pm
Live Q&A Discussion on Ceres Tag: An animal monitoring Solution!
17 August 2022 6:57am
1 September 2022 5:48am
Hi Peter, Other users are having success embedding the tag into the rear face of the rear horn, see photos 
26 September 2022 9:17pm
Is there any sort of automatic drop-off mechanism for the tags? Or does the animal need to be re-captured to take the tag off?
29 September 2022 3:52am
Hi Carly,
There are no built in automatic drop-off mechanism for the tags. We do have customers that have purchased and incorporated the tag into different types of harness and collars.
Happy to discuss further with you to understand your use case. Head over to www.cerestag.com and there is a "let's talk" button.
CERES TAG – Animal Health Intelligence
Discovery CERES TAG. A smart animal health device with direct to satellite capability, providing animal data anytime, anywhere with no towers or infrastructure required.
Senior Conservation Technology Expert Position (Consultancy) with the Global Wildlife Program
22 September 2022 5:35pm
Catch Up with The Variety Hour: November 2022
22 September 2022 2:12pm
Key Takeaways: Building the East Africa community!
7 September 2022 6:44am
8 September 2022 1:00am
Establishing and Building the East Africa Community: Looking back on Year 1!
7 September 2022 5:55am
ONLINE COURSE: Grant Writing for Wildlife Conservation
31 August 2022 2:38pm
Online Hackathon: Predators conservation in the Maasai Mara
22 August 2022 10:32am
Ceres Wild Rhino application
22 August 2022 1:29am
29 September 2022 4:05am
RCMRD Map Competition 2022
19 August 2022 1:54pm
Developer, Mara Elephant Project
19 August 2022 12:35pm
Live Q&A Discussion on EarthRanger: All you need to know about the system!
22 July 2022 6:41am
29 July 2022 10:41am
Thank you so much for leading this Q&A session @kennedy_muriithi and for your time. It was lovely hosting you and I believe the community has learnt a lot about the EarthRanger system.
If you have any questions for Kennedy, kindly drop them anytime in this discussion thread- he is more than happy to answer all your questions!
Thank you Kennedy and see you all in our next Q&A session. We will be exploring an interesting conservation technology topic and featuring an amazing speaker, so stay tuned. See you next time!
12 August 2022 12:34pm
Hello Kennedy,
Many thanks for sharing your experiences with ER.
Does ER support integration with Qgis and Arc gis desktop or its only configured to support Arcgis online only?
15 August 2022 6:53am
@Ann_Wambui , Qgis and ArcGis Desktop are stand alone apps that are useful in coming up with geojson files and/or shapefiles that store the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features.
Earthranger does provide a mechanism to upload these geojson and/or shapefiles so that the geographic features stored within these files can be visualized on Earthranger.
From the Field: An interview with Arjun Dheer
11 August 2022 6:27am
Earth Ranger Projection
28 June 2022 10:15am
30 June 2022 12:40pm
Hi Turu,
To be able to assist you, I would like to understand the following first:
1. What feature of data did you export/get from EarthRanger? i.e shapefile? CSV? etc.
2. What coordinate system was your data from EarthRanger?
2. When plotting did you match/project with the correct coordinate system?
3. Do you think there was an active layer with a different projection system in your work frame?
4. Did you check whether your work frame projection was correct to match what you were plotting?
28 July 2022 11:47am
HI benard sorry am replying late,and yes i the data was exported as shapefile 2.i used same projection which is 37N WGS 84 on both apps and still the exported shape file projection read away from the wanted location
funny story is,the exported shapefile pins quite well when using QGIS but then on ARC GIS pro i don't get what the issue is
CERES TAG
22 July 2022 3:36am
2022 EarthRanger User Conference
20 July 2022 9:08pm
Tech Tutors East Africa: Call for Topics and Speakers
19 July 2022 9:28am
19 July 2022 11:41am
Definitely second doing one on SMART! It's been asked about before a number of times in other virtual events so I think the need/want is for sure there.
19 July 2022 12:20pm
100%! Also heard many asking about SMART Connect & Mobile, and their integration with other software.
Thank you for your input :)
Call for Abstracts for #AGU22 Fall Meeting: Applications of Earth Observations for Addressing Environmental and Development Challenges in Africa
18 July 2022 6:43am
Earth Species Project - Senior AI Research Scientist
15 July 2022 6:40pm
Camera Trap Image analyzer
2 June 2022 10:41am
17 June 2022 3:58pm
Hi Ann,
The best thing to do is contact Nic and Hannes directly:
https://wildeyeconservation.org/contact-us/
They can provide you with an overview of the software and answer any questions you have. I've heard good things from a couple of others who have tried out TrapTagger.
Best,
Matt
2 July 2022 9:48am
Hello Matt,
Many thanks for your recommendation . I contacted Nic and we have planned a session where he will take me through the software.
Regards,
Ann
2 July 2022 2:39pm
Hi Kate,
I highly appreciate your feedback. I love your idea of using wild ID .I have registered for the wild ID and am looking forward to using it in future. I wont hesitate to contact you incase of any inquiries.
Many thanks,
Regards,
Ann
8 January 2024 3:55pm