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Field Projects

Projects

Active conservation projects across four continents, each grounded in local leadership and long-term ecological resilience.

Indonesia · Sumatra

Sumatra

Protecting the last stronghold of wild tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans — through community-led conservation science and regenerative economic systems.

Madagascar

Madagascar

An expedition to a forgotten forest where a grassroots model is stopping deforestation — and saving a species on the brink.

Ecuador · Chocó

The Chocó

An expedition to document the wildlife of an unexplored forest on the brink of collapse.

Chile · Patagonia

Patagonia

An expedition to track and photograph wild pumas in Torres del Paine.

Rwanda · Nyamasheke District

Rwanda

Eco Hive Guardians — beekeeping cooperatives buffering Nyungwe National Park, turning honey into a force for forest protection.

Conservation tech · multiple hotspots

WhaleID AI

A computer vision pipeline for re-identifying individual humpback whales — built with local partners across a network of humpback hotspots.

Framework paper · 2025

RC-DAO Framework

A framework paper on community-led energy DAOs for protected areas — published 2025.