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Connected Conservation Foundation
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Helping secure and sustain proven digital infrastructure and cutting-edge technology to stop nature loss and build resilient ecosystems and communities.
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👏 Congrats to @faunaflora.bsky.social. Using @airbus.com 50 cm imagery, they’ve created the first AI-driven land cover maps for 2 South Sudan game reserves — a big leap for biodiversity monitoring in the region🗺️
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AI-Powered Habitat Mapping for Smarter Conservation in South Sudan’s Game Reserves
Producing South Sudan’s first detailed land cover maps—capturing forests, wetlands and deforestation pressures—to guide conservation planning, connectivity and community-led protection.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🚨 Final call! PAT Scholarships close 14 Nov 2025
Boost your conservation career with hands-on training, mentorship & real-world impact.
🔧 2-week practicals
🏞️ 2-month internship
🤝 Build skills & networks
Apply now 👉 connectedconservation.foundation/pat-scholars...
#ConservationCareers
Apply Now for Nomination
Nominations are open for the 2026 PAT Scholarship Pathway—a chance to take your knowledge to the next level with practical training followed by a PAT internship in a protected area.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Huge thanks to the #ACTCon team for a pivotal week marking a new chapter in Conservation Tech! Honoured to join panels, showcase our Technician Training, and witness #SMARTCnsvTools + @earthrangertech.bsky.social unite as SERCA 🤝. The future is an integrated digital ecosystem for nature🌍
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Now in beta: The EarthRanger Event Form Editor. A drag-and-drop way to design & customize event forms — no coding required. Capture richer, structured datasets with nested collections, keeping related observations together for better analysis and decision-making. www.earthranger.com/news/event-f...
August 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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We’ve launched the IoT Assistant — an AI-powered decision-support tool that helps conservationists and field practitioners select the most effective IoT sensors.

Backed by real-world reviews from practitioners, the tool covers 130+ sensors ⬇️
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November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🛰️ Need high-res satellite imagery to boost your field, community & AI data?
Apply for the Satellites for Biodiversity Award — funding projects protecting species & ecosystems worldwide.
WIN: $6K | Airbus Pléiades imagery | Mentorship
⏰19 Dec 2025
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October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Proud to be featured in the new IUCN & PANORAMA Solutions #NatureTech report! 🌍Together with incredible partners, we’re using connected IoT networks to power conservation — from rhino protection to drought monitoring across Africa.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🚨 Applications open! Take your conservation career into the field with the 2026 PAT Scholarship.
Here’s why you should apply👇
🌿 Experience
🌍 Connections
🎓 Certification
💸 Fully funded
💪 Impact
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#PATScholarship #CareerOpportunity
Connect and Protect — Apply for the 2026 PAT Scholarship Program
Whether you’re just starting or ready to advance, the PAT Scholarship offers a rare chance to combine expert-led training, hands-on field experience and career-shaping industry connections. Here are f...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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A great feature from @airbus.com spotlighting our grantee, Chulalongkorn University.
🛰️ Using satellite imagery, AI & community engagement, they’re uncovering urgent truths about Bale Mountains National Park, home of the endangered Ethiopian wolf 🐺
www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...
The last stand of the Ethiopian wolf
Find out how Airbus satellites and local partnerships are driving conservation
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October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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As #Tech4Nature grows ahead of #IUCNWCC2025, we’re proud to help make conservation tech accessible to all. From local training, global partnerships and supporting governments, CCF is advancing inclusive, impactful tech and digital skills for conservation
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From Spark to Spotlight: The Tech4Nature Innovation Journey Continues to Shape Conservation’s Future. Join us at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025, Abu Dhabi
The Tech4Nature 2025 Innovation Challenge Workshop Series has now been completed, marking an important milestone on the journey to the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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We’re honoured that the Connected Conservation Foundation is shortlisted for IUCN's #Tech4Nature Award (Species Conservation) 🦏🦁 Huge thanks to our partners, communities & tech teams who protect wildlife daily.
Congrats to all the inspiring finalists > blog.huawei.com/en/post/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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A look at how we've evolved to support conservationists on the frontlines this #WorldWildlifeDay. www.earthranger.com/news/world-w...
March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Our team joined the @earthrangertech.bsky.social conferences in Uganda & South Africa — connecting with conservation professionals & sharing updates on our training and scholarships. Apply for free conservation tech training here: connectedconservation.foundation/capacity-bui...
October 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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🛰️ Satellites for Biodiversity Award, Round 4 is open!
Win: VHR satellite data (incl HD15), $6K, Esri ArcGIS Pro and CCF & Airbus mentorship.
We're seeking bold projects on species, invasives, ecosystems & restoration.
Apply by 19 Dec
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September 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Together with @cisco.com we mark #WorldRhinoDay 🦏, celebrating a decade of innovation and purpose, supporting partners and dedicated field teams with tech to safeguard these incredible animals.
Thank you to everyone who never stops working to secure their future 💚
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Celebrating a decade of Connected Conservation
For the past ten years, Cisco has been proud to partner with the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF), combining technology and devoted field teams to make a real difference in wildlife conservatio...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🎉 Connected Conservation is 10! 🎉
Read our special Annual Review 24-25.
In a decade, with extraordinary partners, we’ve:
✅ Catalysed $13M for tech in conservation
✅ Strengthened Protected 40+ species
✅ Now powering the next generation with tech + ed.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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🌍 Applications now open for our Protected Area Technician Training Scholarships.
Win:
✅ 2 weeks in a top-protected area in South Africa & Kenya
✅ Hands-on with conservation tech
✅ Real-world challenges w/ experts
📅 Apply by 20 Oct 25
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#PATCareer
Apply Now for Nomination
Nominations are open for the 2026 PAT Scholarship Pathway—a chance to take your knowledge to the next level with practical training followed by a PAT internship in a protected area.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Fighting invasive species with satellites, AI & community action!
At Loisaba Conservancy, the prickly pear cactus is threatening wildlife & livelihoods. Using satellite imagery + AI mapping + targeted removal, the team is tackling its spread 🛰️
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Invasive Species Mapping in Loisaba Conservancy, Kenya
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August 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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"This is what real impact looks like – education and innovation coming together to protect the natural world and empower those who care for it" - Francine Katsoudas, chief people, policy & purpose officer, @cisco.com

Have you spotted our free training course?
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Free course provides tech skills to protect parks – Gadget
The Connected Conservation Foundation’s online programme trains participants to use digital tools for modern conservation challenges.
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August 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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LPWAN/LoRaWAN is transforming sectors — from water management to protecting vast landscapes.
Proud CCF is featured (15:20) in @BBCSounds on Kenya’s growing National #LoRaWAN network, delivering data-driven, cost-effective solutions for people & nature
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Business Daily - The quiet power behind smart tech - BBC Sounds
LPWAN can send small amounts of data over long distances, using very little power
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August 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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This #WorldElephantDay, we celebrate EHRA for protecting Namibia’s desert elephants.

🛰️ With Airbus Foundation imagery, CCF support & tracking data, they’ve mapped elephant hotspots & migration routes—guiding coexistence, water access & reduced conflict.

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Satellites are helping protect critically endangered desert elephants. Here's how
Namibian desert elephants fear humans, but drought forces them to seek water near settlements.
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August 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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#Tech4Nature 2025 Innovation Challenge Workshop: AI and IoT for Real-Time Conservation Impact
Join our @sophie-maxwell.bsky.social, in shaping how tech transforms conservation in a free, solutions-focused workshop
📅 20 Aug
🕒 14:30-17:30 GMT+1
🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0e3312...
August 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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What animal has big ears, a trunk, and can shape entire ecosystems?

🐘Elephants!

Sadly, they are threatened according to IUCN Red List of Endangered Species.

Their conservation benefits both people and nature. 🌍🧪🌱

🔗 ipbes.net/assessment-reports/
Young elephant in field, up-close. Overlay text reads: Elephants are incredible. Map illustration showing the regions of Africa and Asia. Elephant figures are dispersed throughout the map. Overlay text reads: Elepahts are Endangered. African Savanna Elephant, Loxodota africana, Endangered. Indian Elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, Endangered. Bornean Elephant, Elephas maximus borneensis, Endangered. Sumatran Elephant, Elephas maximus sumatranus, Critically endangered. Sri Lankan Elephant, Elephas maximus maximus, Endangered. African Forest Elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, Critically endangered. 2/6 sub-species are Critically Endangered. Source: IUCN List of Endangered Species. Elephant in field. Overlay text reads: Losing such megafauna may have important consequences on local, regional and macro scales that go beyond the loss of the species itself. Source: IPBES Regional Assessment for Africa, 2018 Elephant in tropic mangrove forest. Overlay text reads: One restoration strategy would be connecting forests with wildlife corridors via rehabilitation projects. Source: IPBES Regional Assessment for Asia and the Pacific, 2018
August 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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As conservation becomes increasingly data-driven, CCF, Cisco Networking Academy & partners have launched a free, online Protected Area Technician Training Program to provide skills across a wide range of conservation technologies.

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August 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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We’re supporting Conservation X Labs in protecting California’s Giant Sequoias, vital for biodiversity & carbon storage.
With Airbus Foundation, we’re providing #satelliteimagery for X Labs to couple with #AI models to detect bark beetle threats early
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Defending Giant Sequoia Forests against Bark Beetles, Carlifornia, USA
Creating an early warning system for Giant Sequoia infestation using AI and high-resolution satellite imagery to detect infestations early
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July 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM