Mayianat Conservancy Links Ranger Patrols, Wildlife Data and Restoration Planning
In the month of August, we had an extensive engagement with Mayianat Conservancy, aimed at strengthening the conservancy's operational, ecological monitoring and landscape restoration capacities. In partnership with the Wyss Academy for Nature, we supported the establishment, equipping and operationalization of a dedicated EarthRanger operations room, discussed the planned introduction of camera traps and the management of the invasive Opuntia species.
The operations room will be the centralized communication system through which information generated by ranger teams patrolling the conservancy, can be recorded, verified and analyzed for decision making, and provide an opportunity to improve the flow of information between field teams, the operations room, conservancy management and relevant partners.
The next step will involve training conservancy rangers and operations teams on the usage of the system, covering procedures on how to identify and report incidences whenever they occur.
On the removal of the Opuntia invasive species, the conservancy is moving towards segmentation of the heavily infested sections of the conservancy, making it easier to assess extent of infestation, labor and cost requirements, as well as a coordinated plan for its removal, to reduce duplication of efforts. Mayianat conservancy will also be incorporating mechanical removal of Opuntia alongside the manual and biological removal methods to increase speed and efficiency.
On ecological monitoring and through this partnership, this project will see the installation of camera traps along the corridor connecting Mayianat and Lolldaiga conservancies, to provide additional wildlife data to complement observations generated through ranger patrols and EarthRanger.
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