By Kate Lewis Hood 03 August 2022 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.
By Kate Lewis Hood 03 August 2022 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.