Gorongosa Project Technologies
Technologies deployed in the park include EarthRanger software to support field rangers in monitoring radio-collared animals and in law enforcement around activities considered to be illegal in the park. Camera traps facilitate real-time observation of animal movements but also poaching and deforestation activity. Monitoring technologies are used to intervene in issues of human-animal coexistence, for example if animals destroy local communities' crops or communities remove areas of forest for agriculture .
Buffalo being monitored in Gorongosa National Park. Image source: Gorongosa National Park [photograph]. Retrieved 3 August 2022, from https://gorongosa.org/ecological-monitoring-2/
How do digital technologies support and/or complicate the Gorongosa Project's stated aims of intertwined conservation practices with local community development and participation , and what are the social, political, and ecological impacts of these technologies?
Find out more in our radio episode with Larissa Souza, Associate Director of Communications at Gorongosa National Park.