Rainforest Connection

We harness the power of sound in creating the technology and human connections that accelerate the protection, preservation, and understanding of the natural world. We leverage acoustic technology, AI, and machine learning to monitor and protect remote forests, enabling real-time interventions. We provide conservationists, scientists, and supporters with data drive insights that will expedite and automate ecosystem conservation and species protection.

We envision a future where anyone, anywhere can connect with and protect the natural world, everywhere.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: Measure Collect mass amounts of audio data from all over the natural world, for as many species and acoustic variables as possible.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Evaluate Empower the use of collected data to create actionable insights that enable conservation decision making.

Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).

Goal Three: Recommend Use actionable insights and experience to inform a focused, customized effort towards achieving specific conservation outcomes.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Describe an investment in leadership

3 of our top execs (Director of Marketing, Director of Business Development, Founder) were sent to Glasgow for COP26 to learn more about the technological and political updates directly related to our industry, build our network, learn about the media process, and present the our mission.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

We work with local governments, other nonprofits, corporate partners, indigenous tribes, and on the ground rangers and partners to use our system to protect and conserve their local natural areas. We train and provide continual support on the use of our Guardian system and monitoring systems at our project sites all over the world, to support their conservation efforts and/or biodiversity monitoring projects. Our technology, science, and acoustics are open source and free to all to access and use. We often engage in thought leadership activities by presenting at conferences and web summits, our scientists are continually publishing their research as found on our website, we contribute and attend industry workshops within conservation tech and biodiversity monitoring networks. Our marketing activities focus on pushing our mission forward and aim to create awareness of the importance of conserving the vulnerable resources and species of our natural world.

COVID has presented challenges not only with financial limitations as many had less income that could go toward individual donations, but it also created a challenge for our team to be able to travel and deploy our Guardian System in person at our project sites around the world. We adapted by creating a process for training the local partners virtually via whatsapp and video conferencing. This is a complicated situation as we not only have to train local partners (rangers, etc) on how to use the alert technology and platform for optimal threat detection and prevention of illegal logging and poaching, but we also had to virtually source and train local tree climbers on how to install our Guardians high in treetop canopies. We often had one of the tree climbers hold the phone up when on video conference so that we could communicate and demonstrate live, exactly how to install our hardware in the treetop. The outcome of this virtual deployment was successful, and the process that was created to adapt to the need of virtual deployment will allow us to scale and deploy our system at more project sites and decrease the need for more team members to travel to project sites as often, and therefore, less overhead.