MWCT
Community Rangers have been pioneers in working with the
SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) conservation software for over a year. The implementation of systematic
patrol planning,
data collection,
reporting and
evaluation has improved ranger effectiveness significantly. A larger area has been covered by ranger patrols, the relationship with the community has improved, resulting in more information sharing regarding illegal activities and hence leading to a higher number of arrests. At the same time, charcoal burning and forest destruction
decreased and poaching activity remained very
limited on the group ranch. Elsewhere in
Kenya poaching activity has
increased tremendously in the same period and forest destruction is still a big issue.
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| MWCT Conservation Program Ranger Force |
Currently, MWCT Community Rangers are further increasing their effectiveness by using
Nexus 7 tablets (donated to us by
Google) and a specific data collection application. This allows the rangers to improve the
quality and
accuracy of their collected data and do away with the more time consuming and complicated
paper-
based system. An easy pictogram based system is used to even allow
illiterate rangers to operate the tablet!
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| Community Ranger utilizes the new innovative application on his tablet! |
At this point, one ranger sector is
fully trained and the one-week pilot is a big success! Soon training will be organized to introduce the digital data collection system to our
entire ranger force. In this way, MWCT remains one of the
leading ranger organizations in Kenya when it comes to ranger
effectiveness and the use of
new technologies!
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