Restoring Earth

It's a noble mission that most people would subscribe to. But where to start?

Transformation starts with sharing information.

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In 2023, a team of consultants led by Cambisol carried out an explorative study for the World Bank in line with the Progreen program in the Sahel. The question: how can innovative technologies boost the efforts of conservation professionals?
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Focus

The big answer to that question is: access to information. Geoinformation. Maps. Climate projections. Best practices. Technical knowhow. And the good news is: a lot of this information already exists. But how to transfer this to people who dedicated their carreers to conserving nature or natural resources?

Over the course of the year, we developed open training sessions on the use of innovative technologies, including:

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Drone mapping & monitoring

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Satellite data and geoportals

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Best practice
portals

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Integrated monitoring & data fusion

The target audience? Professionals dedicated to restoring the Earth - whether in land conservation, sustainable resource management, wildlife and nature protection, sustainable agriculture, or similar.

The pictures below give an impression of the driven group of conservationists that helped setting up the capacity building program. For more project findings, see the Executive Summary.

In April 2023, a group of government officials, NGO workers, students, and freelancers came together in a co-creation workshop in N'Djamena, Chad. We discussed the most promising technologies and needs to address in the training sessions.
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Throughout 2023, several training sessions were organised in line with the above topics: drones, satellites, best practice portals, and integrated monitoring.
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Diverse professionals from the conservation sector attended tailored sessions that suited their interests and expertise, with a total of 96 participations.
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To determine the most relevant topics for the training, ~40 stakeholders shared their wants & needs in personal interviews beforehand. 82% of respondents identified the need for technical capacity building, with access to training as the #1 obstacle. The most desired technologies were cartography and remote sensing.
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The proposed topics and training content was then discussed and refined during the co-creation workshop.
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The interest and engagement by the training participants has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are currently preparing more training in the region.
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Future capacity building will focus on addressing a larger group with more in-depth topics, including field training and e-tutorials that will be uploaded on this page for free.
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    Free learning

    We are happy to to share the training material freely for public use. At this stage, the presentation slides of 4 modules are made available in English language below.

    However, our ambition is much bigger: in the future we'd like to grow this platform with multilingual content and e-tutorials. More to come!

    Module 1: Preparing a drone survey

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    Operators in wildlife & ecology
    Beginner
    Laptop / phone / tablet with internet connection
    Basic experience with flora/fauna inventories and visual species determination

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    Module 5: Unlocking best practices portals

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    English
    Decision makers in natural resources and agriculture
    Beginner
    Laptop / phone / tablet with internet connection
    Principles of sustainable resources management &
    basic     understanding of spatial analysis

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    Module 4: Unlocking satellite data geoportals

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    Prerequisite knowledge:

    English
    Operators in environmental conservation and agriculture
    Beginner
    Laptop / phone / tablet with internet connection
    Principles of geo-spatial data

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    Module 7: Ecological field monitoring tools

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    English
    Operators in wildlife & ecology
    Beginner
    Laptop / phone / tablet with internet connection
    Principles of animal ecology

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    What is your vision about restoring the Earth?
    Do you have questions or suggestions to share with us?
    Or are you interested in exploring tailored training modules for your region or target group?

    Contact us! You can find our details on Cambisol.com.

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