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First LoRaWAN® Elephant Collar successfully deployed in Liwonde
Park Rangers in Liwonde National Park in Malawi are for the first time able to see elephant locations every fifteen minutes. This is possible due to new Smart Parks technology providing Rangers with GPS-locations four times an hour. With this [...]
Smart Parks is looking for a new Wildlife ProTechtor!
Smart Parks is looking for a passionate conservation technology field engineer with a no-nonsense, getting-things-done attitude to extend our team. This means you know your way around computers, (LoRaWAN) networks and sensor technology and you share our passion for the [...]
A new way of tracking Namibia’s desert lion
Smart Parks has established the first Smart Park in Namibia, creating new opportunities to monitor the fragile desert-adapted lion population. The project was conducted in collaboration with Desert Lion Conservation and the Dutch IT-company CARE. With an estimated population of 150, so-called desert [...]
Greater protection for Zambia’s orphaned elephants and other vulnerable species
This past month, Smart Parks joined a scoping trip to Kafue National Park, Zambia in collaboration with a unique tech-conservation initiative. This effort at Kafue National Park originated in 2017 with Cisco, FLIR Systems, World Wildlife Fund, Game Rangers International [...]
Artificial intelligence in wildlife conservation
We would like to share some valuable insights about artificial intelligence (AI) which is now used to monitor and protect wildlife. At Smart Parks we are always on the lookout of new technologies and developments in the field that can [...]
‘Holy grail in rhino monitoring’ deployed in Liwonde National Park
Smart Parks and African Parks have successfully implanted the first GPS LoRaWAN™ enabled transmitters into the horns of two eastern black rhinos at Liwonde National Parks in Malawi. The devices provide park management with a real-time position of the critically [...]