InConversation: Season 1*Final Episode*

article / 30 April 2024

InConversation: Season 1Final Episode

Tap into our new and exciting community-focused conversation series! In this first season of InConversation, we're in East Africa with host Esther Githinji. Listen in as we chat one-on-one with your favourite conservation technology players to get first-hand perspectives on their work, research, hopes and aspirations for our growing industry.

Esther Githinji

@EstherGithinji
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WILDLABS

Fauna & Flora

I am the WILDLABS East Africa Conservation Technology Coordinator

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Let's Have a Conversation...

InConversation is a vibrant community-focused conversation series, where our team members here at WILDLABS get the unique opportunity to sit down for a light-hearted chat with some of your favourite conservation technology players.

You could call this series a podcast, a vlog, or a knowledge exchange forum and you'd be correct. It features all the above varieties and hopes to bring pressing, diverse and new topics within our conservation technology community that matter most to you to life in an engaging and easy to digest format.

For some of the topics here on WILDLABS, we feel like we could chat about them all day long. InConversation offers a great, open and flexible space to unpack these topics with the help of brilliant experts working across the areas of conservation tech across the globe.

InConversation: Season 1

Keep an eye out on here for regular uploads as new episodes of InConversation go live regularly. You'll also find all previous and new episodes listed below.

For our first season, we focus our attention to East Africa, where our regional team facilitator, Esther Githinji sits down with innovative pioneers in the emerging conservation tech space across the region to discuss present pressing topics.

Follow these links for specific episodes:

InConversation with Wilson Sairowua | Listen in on our interview with Mara Elephant Project’s Tracking Manager, Wilson Sairowua, as he explains how MEP is using software, geofencing and drone technologies to resolve human-elephant conflict across Maasai Mara.
InConversation with Dr. Kenneth Mubea | Watch our interview with Dr. Kenneth Mubea, Capacity Development Lead at Digital Earth Africa, enabling the use of earth observations to address key conservation challenges across the African continent.
InConversation with Gabriela Fleury | Watch our interview with human-predator conflict expert, Gabi Fleury and gain a deeper understanding of the importance of holistic, ethical and community-led approaches to developing tech solutions for conservation.
InConversation with Vainess Laizer | Listen in on our interview with young vulture researcher, Vainess Laizer whose research investigating the breeding success of White-backed Vultures in the Western Corridor of the Serengeti Ecosystem using camera technology is an excellent inspiration for how you too can get started in a career in tech4wildlife.
InConversation with Sandra Maryanne & Catherine Njore | Watch our final interview, as we conclude this season by delving into #tech4wildlife innovation across East Africa with Sandra Maryanne, founder of NdovuCare & Catherine Njore, Cartographer: Fun with Maps.

Do you want to be InConversation with our community? Let us know which region you would like to see InConversation Season 2 go to in the comments below!

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article / 30 April 2024