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In May 2025, 20 black rhinos were translocated to Segera Conservancy on Kenya's Laikipia Plateau.Behind that moment: eig...
05/18/2026

In May 2025, 20 black rhinos were translocated to Segera Conservancy on Kenya's Laikipia Plateau.

Behind that moment: eight years of land restoration at , miles of fencing removed, migratory corridors reopened, and a partnership with Kenya Wildlife Service to bring rhinos back to a landscape that had lost them. The work reflects the long-view conservation model has built at Segera, and the broader commitment to community, culture, and place that champions across its global network of conservation-focused tourism.

By the time the rhinos arrived, 28 Segera rangers had completed refresher training. Tracking a founding population across 50,000 acres on foot would have been nearly impossible. EarthRanger gives the team one place to see ranger locations, ear tag and VHF signals, and camera trap data together, so they can respond in real time.

Read the full story in Fortune. Link in bio.

📷: Segera Conservancy, Zeitz Foundation, and

On , a place that still has them.Cambodia's Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary, our first site in Asia, managed by Rising Pho...
05/15/2026

On , a place that still has them.

Cambodia's Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary, our first site in Asia, managed by Rising Phoenix is the last refuge of the Giant Ibis and a stronghold for three critically endangered vulture species. Banteng, Gaur, Eld's deer, and Siamese Crocodile are returning.

Read about it in our last success story: https://www.earthranger.com/success-stories/saving-the-wild-heart-of-cambodia

"When great engineers meet field experts, big ideas can be born."That's how Frank Pope, CEO of Save the Elephants, opens...
05/14/2026

"When great engineers meet field experts, big ideas can be born."

That's how Frank Pope, CEO of Save the Elephants, opens the forward to our 10-Year Impact Report. It captures how EarthRanger came to be.

In the early 2010s, as elephant poaching surged across Africa, the late Paul G. Allen and his team at Vulcan Inc. set out to give frontline teams a clearer picture of what was happening on the ground. Working alongside and building off the organization's Real-Time Monitoring System, that collaboration became EarthRanger.

Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who founded Save the Elephants in 1993, transformed how conservation understands wildlife by revealing elephants as individuals, not anonymous parts of a landscape. His passing in 2025 was a profound loss, and his legacy continues to shape how conservation teams use data to protect wildlife and people.

Iain's mission lives in the work. A look at Save the Elephants' impact in just 2025 alone.

Read our 10-Year Impact Report at the link in bio.

📷: Save the Elephants, Ted Schmitt, Jane Wynyard

A look inside our 10-Year Impact Report.The Grumeti Fund was one of the first organizations to adopt , and their work a...
05/06/2026

A look inside our 10-Year Impact Report.

The Grumeti Fund was one of the first organizations to adopt , and their work across more than 350,000 acres of wilderness next to Serengeti National Park shows what a decade of partnership can build. In 2025 alone: zero elephants or rhinos poached, 1,010 snares removed, and 22 animals treated for human-caused injuries.

Black rhino were reintroduced here after decades of local absence, and protecting them across open Serengeti terrain takes constant coordination. From a Joint Operations Center, Grumeti's teams monitor the reserves around the clock. Patrol camps, mobile units, canine teams, and collared wildlife on one shared picture of the day.
When wpsWatch AI camera traps from Wildlife Protection Solutions detect a person at a known hotspot, the alert lands in EarthRanger in seconds with image, location, and timestamp. Scouts respond. The same picture also fires location-based alerts to the Human-Wildlife Conflict Unit when a collared elephant crosses into community land.

Read the full Impact Report here: https://www.earthranger.com/news/ten-years-of-impact

Black rhino were reintroduced here after decades of local absence, and protecting them across the open Serengeti terrain takes constant coordination. From a Joint Operations Center, Grumeti's teams monitor the reserves around the clock. Patrol camps, mobile units, canine teams, and collared wildlife on one shared picture of the day.

Ten years.Ten years of work by the rangers, researchers, scientists, and communities protecting our planet's most specia...
04/30/2026

Ten years.

Ten years of work by the rangers, researchers, scientists, and communities protecting our planet's most special places. Across 90 countries. Across 900 sites.

You shaped every feature. You told us what you needed. What EarthRanger has become traces back entirely to you.

Our 10-Year Impact Report is here, with case studies, EarthRanger by the numbers, and a letter from our director on the decade ahead.

This work matters more than ever. So do you.

Link in bio.

The Caribbean coast of Honduras is home to some of the region’s most important marine wildlife sites. Protecting them de...
04/24/2026

The Caribbean coast of Honduras is home to some of the region’s most important marine wildlife sites.

Protecting them depends on the people who know them best. With funding from , fishermen and community leaders across those sites took part in a hands-on workshop, building local capacity for real-time monitoring and coordinated field response.

Protecting Cocos Island means managing patrols 550 kilometers offshore, in one of the world's most biodiverse and most p...
04/22/2026

Protecting Cocos Island means managing patrols 550 kilometers offshore, in one of the world's most biodiverse and most pressured marine environments.

As we close out Earth Day, we wanted to highlight the work in this region. Partners like [email protected], who are leading that work alongside , empowered by Fondo Azul and administered by the .

For all of us at , we're honored to support the ranger teams with real-time situational awareness, integrated field data, and mobile reporting tools built for remote environments.

Excited about more to come with !

Link in bio to read more.

Wild elephants and farming communities have shared this landscape for generations. The tension between them is not new. ...
04/22/2026

Wild elephants and farming communities have shared this landscape for generations. The tension between them is not new. This , we're thinking about the communities on the front lines of that conflict — and the work being done alongside them.

At Kuiburi National Park, , Ecoexist Society, and are working with farming communities to get ahead of nightly crop raids. 64 AI-enabled camera traps along the park boundary detect elephants moving toward farmland and transmit alerts to 25 community rangers within minutes. Since November 2025, teams have logged 724 elephant detections and identified 25 individual animals — building a spatial picture of movement patterns that is starting to shift response from reactive to predictive.

A night without crop loss is a victory. The goal of this work is to make those nights more frequent.

Record news from Bhutan — 31 white-bellied herons counted in 2026, the highest since surveys began in 2003! With fewer t...
03/31/2026

Record news from Bhutan — 31 white-bellied herons counted in 2026, the highest since surveys began in 2003! With fewer than 60 of these birds left in the world, every individual matters.

EarthRanger's own was in Thimphu last week for 's International White-bellied Heron Conference, where our team presented on how EarthRanger is supporting monitoring of this critically endangered species.

The platform launched in Bhutan just 9 months ago, and already 46 active users use EarthRanger to protect one of the planet's most critically endangered birds.

From EarthRanger's director, Jes Lefcourt: "The EarthRanger team and I are devastated to learn of the passing of John Ta...
03/19/2026

From EarthRanger's director, Jes Lefcourt:

"The EarthRanger team and I are devastated to learn of the passing of John Tanui. John has been one of our closest friends since the beginning of the program, as a friend of EarthRanger but, even more-so, as a close personal friend of many of us.

Everyone who has ever met John knows of his kind, infectious smile, and his gentle spirit. He was always eager to share his excitement about his work and about his love of nature. His most recent job had him traveling throughout Africa, teaching rangers and park teams. He would reach out regularly to share videos of the wildlife from the places he was staying, or just to check in.

When I would visit Lewa, John and I would occasionally take a drive around after work. It always amazed me how a guy who spent decades in these places could still sit in quiet contemplation with awe, wonder, and appreciation watching wildlife. On one occasion we were watching a group of lions climbing around on a fallen tree, but I mostly enjoyed John's enthrallment at their agility. I think we watched them for well over an hour. In the course of his career, John met with and briefed many celebrities, from actors and politicians to icons like David Attenborough. Yet I've never seen him as excited as when watching the lions. That's what true love and dedication looks like.

I remember the first time I described John to my wife I told her about this amazing guy who was so knowledgeable, experienced, nice, and 2 meters tall. When she finally met him she pointed out to me that he's not actually 2 meters. That still surprises me, because he still seems that tall in my mind. That's the John I'll remember - The quiet yet passionate conservationist with a heart of gold who was truly larger than life. We'll miss you, John."

All donations through the link will go directly to support John's children: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/scholfun/

📷: First photo courtesy / all others, the EarthRanger team.

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