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Training off the beaten track
05 March 2019
Denton Joachim, a Peace Parks Foundation GIS Technician, is regularly sent out to train field staff in several southern African transfrontier conservation areas. His work takes him well off the beaten track, often to extremely remote parks and reserves. Denton’s training focuses on teaching conservation professionals to work with SMART, the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool that makes it possible to collect, store, analyse and communicate patrol-based data on illegal activities, patrol activities and wildlife....
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Smart Training For Clever Conservation Management
02 Jul 2018
Earlier this year PPF GIS technician, Denton Joachim, travelled to the Luengue-Luiana National Park which lies within the Angolan component of the of Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area to provide SMART training to...
Geographical Information Systems, Southern African Wildlife College
GIS Benefitting Conservation
27 Feb 2017
The Peace Parks Foundation Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team recently spent time at the Southern African Wildlife College to train the Higher Education and Training protected area management students, who are already employed...
Geographical Information Systems, Southern African Wildlife College, Wildlife Crime
The Smart Way To Combat Wildlife Crime
27 Sep 2016
Globally, the illegal wildlife trade is valued at around $19 billion annually. Species are being slaughtered at a rate that will see many become extinct in our lifetime. Africa’s elephant population has declined...
Geographical Information Systems, SA College for Tourism
Using GIS For Conservation
01 Mar 2016
The Peace Parks Foundation GIS team recently visited the Southern African Wildlife College to train the Higher Education and Training protected area management students. The objective of the training is to expose students...
Geographical Information Systems, Southern African Wildlife College
GIS & Land-Use Planning Training
23 Feb 2015
The Peace Parks Foundation GIS team recently visited the Southern African Wildlife College to train the Higher Education and Training protected area management students. The objective of the training is to expose students...
Geographical Information Systems, Southern African Wildlife College
Training Conservation Staff In GIS And GPS
28 Mar 2013
The Foundation has been offering basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) training at the Southern Africa Wildlife College (SAWC) for the past 13 years. The value of GIS as...
