Searching for researchers working in Africa

Andrew Carter

@fmnrandrew
| he, him

I hold a PhD in terrestrial ecology (2010) and am an Adjunct Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University. I also work with World Vision Australia as Monitoring Coordinator for a project called "Scale Up FMNR" which is short for "Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration"

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Acoustics

Hi all,

I work for World Vision Australia on a project called "Scale Up FMNR" (Famer Managed Natural Regeneration). At its most simple level, FMNR is a practice that encourages farmers to retain and maintain trees on their properties. The (initial) focus of my work is in four countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia).

There is currently very little published evidence on the benefits of FMNR to biodiversity. As such, I am keen to connect with researchers that may be using acoustic monitoring (or other remote monitoring devices) to measure changes in biodiversity across time.

Does anyone know of researchers working with these technologies in East Africa (or elsewhere), that may be looking for field sites or potential collaborations? I would love to monitor changes in biodiversity across time at FMNR sites and paired non-treament (control) sites.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Andrew

Esther Githinji

@EstherGithinji | She/Her

WILDLABS

Fauna & Flora

I am the WILDLABS East Africa Conservation Technology Coordinator

25 September 2023 9:07am

Hi Andrew,

Great to hear about what you are currently working on. Based on the scope of your work, here are some organisations working across East Africa that could be useful to connect with:

1. Komaza

2. GainForest

Best wishes.

David_Wechuli

@David_Wechuli

6 October 2023 7:16pm

Hi Andrew,

I'm a bat researcher in KENYA. I have skill in acoustics where I record bat echolocation calls to identify bat species and determine the activity patterns. I'm open to collaboration on a projects that is useful to monitor biodiversity. Below are my conto the details:

[email protected]

+254722965093

Thanks

David Fernández

@dafernan

University of the West of England

20 October 2023 6:20pm

Hi Andrew,

I work in Central Africa, in Equatorial Guinea to be exact. I record mostly at 8kHZ inside protected areas but there may be oportunities to collaborate? You can email me at [email protected].

Best wishes,

David

Carly Batist

@carlybatist | she/her

Science Outreach Lead-Rainforest Connection (RFCx) & Arbimon; Ecoacoustics, biodiversity monitoring, primates, lemurs

20 October 2023 7:45pm

Hi Andrew,

Rainforest Connection (RFCx) has projects in a couple different countries in that region, and also working with agroforestry systems to monitor biodiversity using acoustic monitoring! You can read more about that project (Kenya) here: https://rfcx.org/blog/monitoring-biodiversity-in-kenyan-agroforestry-parcels. We've also got a project working with small-scale cacao farmers in Colombia to monitor biodiversity in their cacao plots. For some background, RFCx is a non-profit focused using sound and AI to monitor biodiversity and detect threats, and we also manage the Arbimon acoustic analysis platform.

I'd be happy to talk through ideas further if you'd like, feel free to reach out! [email protected]

All the best,

Carly