Hello all,
My name is Bien. I’m working as a scientific-technical officer in Bu Gia Map National Park, southeastern Vietnam.
We have been applying SMART Desktop since 2016. SMART Mobile has just been used to conduct forest patrol and biodiversity monitoring activities in Bu Gia Map NP since 2021.
We would like to get more support from the SMART Community to improve better SMART usage in the park.
Many thanks to all!
Hola mi nombre es Yury soy de Perú, trabajo en junglekeepers Perú una ong sin fines de lucro dedicada a la conservación mediante el programa de guardabosques y soy el coordinador, trabajamos con Smart y Smart mobile desde el 2018. Espero seguir aprendiendo y ayudando a quienes quieres saber un poco más del Smart mobile.
Hello to everyone!
My name is Josip Kusak. I work at the Biology Department of the Veterinary faculty, Zagreb Croatia. Beside teaching students basic zoology, ecology etc., I study large carnivores, primary wolves in Croatia and wider.
I am a new user of SMART 6.3 and plan to introduce it as a system which will be used by a network of field observers to collect signs of presence of wolves, lynxes and bears in Croatia as part of national monitoring program of those species.
The topic of the use of line and polygon features in future versions of SMART was raised by one of my students in the old forum, and I am looking forward to ver. 8 of SMART. In the meantime we chose to use ver 6.3
Kind regards,
Josip
Prof. dr. sc. Josip Kusak VMD
Veterinary biology department
Veterinary faculty
University of Zagreb
Heinzelova 55
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA
Hi SMART Colleagues, I am Abu working on REDD+. My key areas of activities involve in forest monitoring and support development of near-real time forest monitoring at various jurisdictional scales. I am new to the SMART system so keen to learn the technology and how this could be integrated in forest monitoring. Looking forward knowing something new through the process. Thank you all.
Hi everyone!
My name is Lisa and I am based in the Eastern Cape of South Africa where we are in the early stages of establishing a large connected conservation landscape by integrating land, dropping fences, and establishing wildlife corridors. This long term project is the vision of a collaboration between the Conservation Landscapes Institute (CLI), the African Rhino Conservation Collaboration (ARCC), the Indalo Protected Environment and Wilderness Foundation Africa and I work with the fantastic support of the Wildlife Protection Solutions team. I’ve been tasked (by CLI) with building the monitoring programme across the landscape to provide ongoing data collection for ecological, community, land management, wildlife security, animal health, impact assessment and a variety of other purposes. I’m currently working with the various managers and stakeholders across this landscape to design standardized data collection models as well as meet the individual data collection needs of the wildlife reserves and other land users.
I originally trained as a veterinarian before making a jump into ecology, where I found a real passion for conservation technology. Before my current role I was working in the reserve management and ecology team on a private game reserve in this area with the focus of getting the reserve set up on first CyberTracker and later (with the assistance of WPS) SMART and EarthRanger. I am now in the process of assisting the implementation of these programmes and their associate/integrated technologies across the other reserves in this area. I’m also working with some of the universities in this area to introduce students to the SMART programme and get them using it in the field in collaboration with these game reserves and research partners.
It continues to be a steep learning curve for me so I’m excited to continue to interact with and learn from this community.
Hello everyone, my name is Cristóvão de Mozambique, I have been a SMART user since 2015.
However, I’m having unprecedented difficulties installing SMART 6.3.0 on my macbookpro.
I would like some help to overcome this issue.
Hi Cristovao,
Welcome on this new platform!Could you please explain in details the difficulties you are experiencing with SMART 6 for us to help you?
Thanks,
Clarine
Hello, my name is Clarine Kigoli working with the Zoological Society of London in Kenya. I am a capacity Trainer and one of my roles entails delivering SMART training in Kenya and Globally as requested by partners in conservation. I help conservation organizations across
the region to successfully implement SMART through regular checking, retraining, mentoring
and troubleshooting whenever they have problems with the SMART software. I also sit on the Technology council of the SMART partnership and contribute to various task forces.
Hello to everyone, my name is José Girón, Im from Guatemala, workingo for Defensores de la Naturaleza Foundation, we have been working on 4 protected áreas located in different places in Guatemala. Hoping to find the answer to improve our mission.
Hello
I am José A Blanco, I am working as a researcher at IREC (CSIC-UCLM) (www.irec.es) in several wildlife monitoring projects in Spain and other European countries. Currently 2022 with projects like ENETWILD (enetwild.com), EOW (wildlifeobservatory.org), LIFE Iberconejo… where SMART opens a world of possibilities to standardize and harmonize data collection.
Check this post, looks like spam
Thanks! I deleted it and deactivated the account.
Hi SMARTies!
I am David Williams with the African Wildlife Foundation based in Washington DC. I support AWF/partner SMART programs across Africa and have been a proud SMART user since 2014.
Great to see this vibrant community grow. I look forward to contributing.
Cheers,
David
Bonjour à tous! Je me présente Joules ELARI, je suis ingénieur des sciences et techniques forestières, je suis dans le monde de la conservation depuis novembre 2015 en qualité d’assistant de recherche. J’ai commencé à manipuler l’outil SMART en 2016 et actuellement je suis recruté en qualité du point focal SMART à la WCS Congo dans le cadre du PROGEP-Kabo. Dans le soucis d’apprendre beaucoup de l’Outil SMART, je tiens à féliciter l’initiative du forum et une fois de plus merci.
Cordialement
Bonjour à tous, Je m’appelle Armel Davy Ekouoth, Ingénieur des sciences et Techniques Forestières, évoluant à WCS au Parc National Nouabale Ndoki en qualité d’Assistant Technique de la Lutte Anti-braconnage et en contact avec l’outil SMART depuis 2015. A présent, j’appuis la Reserve Communautaire du Lac-Télé au poste de Point Focal Smart.
Hello everyone
I am Thongsavanh amphavong, working at Nakai namthuen national park (laos) law enforcement department. SMART / GIS database
Hello SMART Colleagues, My name is Lloyd K Moyo, and I work as the Bubye Valley Conservancy’s Security and Conservation Data Management Officer. I am new to the SMART system and am eager to learn about it. Looking forward to learning something new during the process. Thank you so much.
Hello all.
My name is Yasalde Massingue,
I am a biologist with a degree in Biological Sciences
I work as a Smart technician in Lugenda Wildlife Conservancy and I am here to learn more about Smart with you.
Hello everyone!
My name is Melanie Erlacher and my background is in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing. I am a researcher at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (Austria). Together with Bahir Dar University (Ethiopia) we are elaborating workflows for collaborative monitoring in the Lake Tana UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. We are using SMART for the monitoring of the invasive water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes).
Greets!
Hi justinsteventon,
My name is Roy from Zambia, I’m an ICT specialist interested in Mobile app development, am currently learning Flutter so that one day I can develop mobile apps to help in conversation. I have always been looking forward to contribute to WWF Zambia in my capacity and add value to the organization. Looking forward to learn from you on mobile applications or software development in general