🌿 Welcome, Ulrich Sidoine WUIBE! 🌍

We’re delighted to have you join our WildHub community. Your bilingual voice, rich teaching experience, and dedication to biodiversity conservation bring incredible value to our network.

Your work on soil invertebrates and millipede conservation in Bouda Ndjida National Park is inspiring, especially the way you’ve connected science with education and community engagement. Your expertise in terrestrial ecology, curriculum development, and stakeholder collaboration will spark meaningful discussions here.

We look forward to learning from your insights on:

• Soil biodiversity and ecosystem health

• Dryland ecology and land degradation monitoring

• Invertebrate conservation (with your special passion for millipedes!)

• Integrating science into policy and rural development

We’re excited to collaborate, exchange ideas, and grow together toward innovative conservation solutions.

Please feel at home, Ulrich.

Welcome to WildHub, Sarah Jane! 

We’re delighted to have you join our community. Your dedication to nature recovery and your leadership at Surrey Wildlife Trust are truly inspiring. With over 26 years of experience shaping conservation through partnerships, policy, and innovative projects, your expertise will be invaluable here.

It’s exciting to see your passion for bridging nature and technology through initiatives like Space4Nature, as well as your pioneering work on the Natural Capital Investment Plan for Surrey. Your forward-thinking approach to nature finance and biodiversity net gain shows how ecological recovery can be supported by sustainable economic models, something many of us are eager to learn more about.

We look forward to engaging with your ideas, collaborating across borders, and exploring opportunities to connect conservation with innovation. Welcome aboard and thank you for bringing your vision and energy to WildHub! 

@Naveen Kumar  Hello,

We’re thrilled to have you join our community. Your impressive field experience with Project Cheetah. From camera trap image analysis and VHF/GPS tracking to health assessments and kill event documentation, it brings a wealth of practical knowledge that will enrich our collective learning.

Your strong academic foundation in environmental and ecological sciences, combined with your passion for science-based monitoring and conservation. We’re excited to see how your skills and insights will contribute to advancing conservation approaches globally.

In your view, what is the biggest challenge in balancing cutting‑edge technology with traditional ecological knowledge when it comes to wildlife conservation?

We look forward to learning from your journey and collaborating with you as you continue to grow within this network.

Welcome aboard! 🌍

Welcome to WildHub, Muthoni! 🌍

Your journey is deeply inspiring, rooted in community-led restoration, women’s leadership, and climate resilience across Africa. It’s a true honor to have you join this space.

From your impactful role at the Women’s Earth Alliance to co-founding Homegrown Sustainability Solutions, your work beautifully bridges traditional wisdom and modern innovation. Your leadership in ecosystem restoration and gender equity is a beacon for regenerative change, and your experience with organizations like the Green Belt Movement and One Tree Planted adds rich depth to your vision.

We’re excited to learn from your insights, collaborate across borders, and amplify locally rooted, women-led solutions. May WildHub be a space where your ideas flourish and your connections grow stronger.

Thank you for sharing.

Flavia, this reflection is both grounding and inspiring. Your journey through WildHub beautifully illustrates how quiet, intentional actions can lead to profound shifts in mindset, community, and career.

As someone working with youth and communities in Kenya’s conservation spaces, I deeply resonate with your call for empathy, authenticity, and inclusive collaboration. WildHub has also helped me reframe advocacy, not as expertise, but as presence and shared growth.

Your insights on academia and volunteering remind us that transformation often begins with listening and showing up. What if more institutions embraced this kind of human-centered leadership?

Thank you for reminding us that conservation is as much about people as it is about the planet. Looking forward to learning and building alongside you.

Thank you, GM, for this powerful and timely reflection. Your breakdown of the five key steps resonates deeply with what we’re witnessing on the ground in Kenya’s conservation corridors, from Lake Jipe to Tsavo.

🔍 Seizure & Judicial Follow-up I couldn’t agree more: seizures without legal continuity risk becoming symbolic victories. In our youth-led initiatives, we’re exploring ways to support community-based legal literacy and paralegal networks that can help track cases beyond the initial bust. Perhaps a regional toolkit for judicial follow-up could be co-developed?

📊 Arrest & Transparency The call for a shared regional database is spot-on. We’ve seen firsthand how fragmented reporting weakens accountability. Could WildHub host a pilot forum to map existing data systems and identify gaps?

🤝 Operation & Collaboration Coordination remains a challenge, especially across agencies with differing mandates. In our work, we’ve found that involving youth and local leaders in post-operation debriefs fosters trust and surfaces insights that formal reports often miss. A feedback loop that includes frontline voices could be transformative.

📣 Communication & Impact: Your critique of “noise over impact” is refreshing. We’re shifting toward storytelling that highlights judicial outcomes, community resilience, and lessons learned, not just dramatic visuals. Would love to exchange ideas on responsible communication strategies that honor both transparency and dignity.

📈 Monitoring & Evaluation This is the Achilles’ heel for many grassroots efforts. We’re experimenting with participatory M&E frameworks that allow communities to define success in their own terms. Perhaps WildHub could spotlight case studies where adaptive evaluation has led to real change?

🌍 Regional Cooperation Absolutely, wildlife crime knows no borders, and neither should our solutions. Your post is a rallying cry for deeper collaboration, and I’m grateful for the clarity and conviction you bring.

Looking forward to building on this dialogue and co-creating tools that serve both justice and conservation.

Welcome.