Is your organisation's technology decision-making as structured as it needs to be? Conservation organisations face real pressure to adopt technology, often without a clear process for assessing whether it fits their context, capacity, and conservation goals. The free Conservation Technology Decision Quiz takes five minutes. It scores your approach across three areas: Decision Clarity, Fit and Feasibility, and Delivery and Performance. Results include practical recommendations matched to your score, so you can see where your decision process is strong and what to address first. Start here: Technology Decision Quiz I work with conservation organisations and funders on structured technology decision-making, the process that determines whether adoption actually works. Twenty-five years in conservation across the Global South. Technology-agnostic, no vendor affiliations. If your team is navigating a technology decision, evaluating a pilot, or funding organisations that are, I'd welcome a conversation. BACKGROUND Dr. Louisa Richmond-Coggan. My career spans field-based ecology, international NGO and policy work, academic leadership, and conservation technology decision-making. Field career: large carnivore ecology and human-wildlife coexistence research across Eastern and Southern Africa, including as Head of Ecology at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia. I led Namibia's National Leopard Census, a multi-stakeholder project whose results fed into national and international policy. I built the Carnivore Tracker app, the first of its kind in Namibia. Institutional career: BirdLife International, UNEP-WCMC, TRAFFIC International, Earthwatch. Academic Dean at the School of Wildlife Conservation at the African Leadership University. Technology and innovation work with IUCN Tech4Nature, including leading three Innovation Challenge Workshops and contributing to the strategic guidance framework on conservation technology adoption. The Navigating Web 3.0 Guide: A Tool for Conservation came out of that work. It is a decision-support tool that starts with your conservation goals and operational realities, not the technology. 34 guided questions assess which emerging technologies are worth exploring across four areas: data collection and management, resource allocation and financial management, collaboration and communication, and monitoring and evaluation. Now integrated into the IUCN GSAP SKILLS platform. This guide is where the decision-support work started, and it remains the clearest entry point into conservation technology decision-making for teams new to this field. Research at the International Conservation Technology Conference, Lima in 2026 confirmed what I had been building toward: the gap in conservation technology is not the tools. It is the structured process for deciding whether, which, and how technology fits an organisation's context. PhD, Nottingham Trent University. MSc Conservation Biology, Durrell Institute. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. IUCN WCPA Task Force on Human-Wildlife Coexistence. Member of the Nature Tech Collective and Top Tier Impact.

I'm a marine ecologist passionate about communication and engaging local communities in shifting towards environmental sustainability. Looking forward to expand my career from academia to work at a wildlife conservation organization. I believe the wildhub community is a good place to get inspired. PhD in Animal Science. Experience in teaching, advanced statistics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), sampling and identification of estuarine and marine fauna (plankton, macroinvertebrates and fish), stable isotope analysis and otolith microstructure. I enjoy working in an international environment where I can continuously learn and apply my broad set of skills ranging from research, teaching, communication, and languages.

Hello, I'm Joana Guerreiro. As a lover of wildlife I focused my studies in Biology (Bachelor) and later in Conservation Biology (Master). I analysed zooplankton samples, followed up bumble bee hives, tracked down badgers to be vaccinated, evaluated an Eurasian otter distribution model, helped controlling invasive species and contributed for some wildlife monitoring projects. While studying, I had the opportunity to travel and discover how immense is biodiversity, how little I know about it and how much I want to protect it. Different places introduced me to different ways to interact with my surroundings. Also, I found my love for communication. Presently I'm working has a science tutor for a study centre. I'm looking for a job in conservation field so that while I keep researching what inspires me, I can share it with others and give my contribute to both science and society. I'm here to learn, share and get inspired.

Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (LPN) was founded in 1948, thus being the oldest environmental NGO of the Iberian Peninsula. It has a national scope and a background intrinsically connected to some of the major landmarks of the portuguese modern environmental history, such as the creation of the only national park in the country and several natural parks. LPN has also co-chaired the creation of Castro Verde’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and is currently part of its management board, being the only NGO with a similar responsibility in Portugal. In its more 72 years of existence, LPN has been distinguished with many international awards (e.g., Land for Life Award, UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Best LIFE-Nature Projects 2008 and 2013) and some of national most prestigious honours. LPN aims to contribute to Nature’s conservation and to the environmental protection, by having the sustainable development definition as a guideline and the desire to assure a quality of life to the present and future human generations. Some of its major projects include LIFE-funded projects to preserve the endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) and the stepparian birds of Alentejo, among others. In Castro Verde, a southern municipality in some of the portuguese most beautiful but also less-favoured regions, LPN has been implementing an award-winning project for 20 years that connects biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation with local socioeconomic empowerment through a close work with farmers and the stimulation of ecotourism. Besides this, LPN has also a focus on environmental citizenship, education and training. There is a constant and ever-increasing effort on initiatives and projects that allow to escalate the ability to reach and sensitise people, from every age group. From forest literacy to ocean literacy, passing to the creation of different teaching resources, LPN ensures to take its message to thousands of people every year. Teachers are one of the most common targeted audience since they can easily increase the outreach and directly implement new strategies and test new resources and ideas with their students. With this in mind – and looking for a professional continued training and knowledge transfer capacity –, LPN created a training centre, certified by the national authorities to develop an annual programme of courses, covering a wide spectrum of topics, always with a solid technical and/or scientific basis.

Ricardo Nogueira Martins (Luzern 1990) is the Executive Director of the Local Protected Landscape of Sousa Superior, and a Researcher collaborator at CECS - Communication and Society Research Centre, a leading research unit of the University of Minho. He holds an MSc in Geography - Planning and Territory Management, and a PgDip in EU Policies and Territorial Cooperation from the University of Minho. During his academic career, he studied at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, and worked as a research fellow. He is a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of the IUCN, a member of the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Fourth Colony Geopark, and qualified in EIA – Environmental Impact Assessment as a competent expert in Territory and Soil by QPAIA. He truly believes in green diplomacy.