Welcome

Thank you for joining us. EarthRanger use is growing fast across southern Africa, and field teams now collect more data than ever. The challenge is turning that data into decisions. This workshop follows that thread: how field observations become trusted indicators, clear analysis and, finally, timely management action.

Knowledge

• The adaptive management cycle, from data capture to decisions
• How EarthRanger, SMART, EcoScope and other systems fit together
• Linking your data to MEL frameworks and the right indicators
• The SERCA roadmap (SMART–EarthRanger Conservation Alliance)

Experience

• Case studies from reserves using EarthRanger in practice
• A field visit to the Lapalala Security Operations Centre and the Pangolarium
• A network of ER users to keep learning with

Skills

• ER Admin: event types, users, permissions and subjects
• Analysers and alerts that watch your data for you
• EcoScope workflows to export and analyse ER data

The workshop site

resolveworkshop.pamdas.org

It is a demo reserve set inside the Lapalala landscape, with rangers, vehicles, collared wildlife, patrols, events and alerts already in it. Explore it freely: nothing you do here affects a real reserve. On Day 3 you will also use it to build your own event types, analysers and alerts.

1. Install EarthRanger Mobile
   Free on iPhone and Android. Search for “EarthRanger” (published by the Allen Institute for AI).
   App Store Google Play
2. Sign in to the workshop site
   Open the app and enter the site address resolveworkshop.pamdas.org, then sign in with your username (e.g. Elke.workshop) and the password you set via the email.
3. Start tracking
   Before you set off, start tracking (or start a patrol) in the app. Your route to the venue at Lapalala then appears on the workshop map. Allow location access “always” so tracking keeps running with the screen off.
4. Report what you see as events
   Spot wildlife, a road hazard, a fence break or anything interesting along the way? Add it as an event, with a photo if you can. The app works offline and uploads once you have signal again.

Your tracks and sightings become real data that we use in the sessions on data capture, dashboards and analysis. They also count toward the workshop competitions: best ER sighting and longest patrol track in ER Mobile.

Trouble installing or signing in? Contact Elke before the workshop, or visit the tech desk at registration on Monday.

Lapalala Wilderness School

Lapalala Wilderness Reserve, Waterberg, Limpopo, South Africa. The school sits just outside the reserve's southern border, in the Melkrivier area north of Vaalwater.

• Arrive Monday 26 October, through the afternoon or evening. The registration and tech desk is open, so everyone starts Tuesday at 08:00 in good order.
• Welcome dinner on Monday evening (informal).
• Depart Friday 30 October after breakfast. Facilitators are available in the morning for one-to-one questions.
• Interested in follow-up training or a site visit straight after the workshop? Speak to the Resolve Wildlife team.

• By road: Lapalala is in the Waterberg, roughly a 3½–4 hour drive from Johannesburg/Pretoria via the N1 and Vaalwater. Last stretches may be gravel; plan to arrive in daylight.
• Flying in: the nearest international airport is OR Tambo (Johannesburg). We are coordinating shared transfers from OR Tambo for those who asked for this on the registration form.
• Detailed directions and transfer times follow in the Preparation & Logistics email the week before the workshop.

• Accommodation at the venue is on a shared basis. We take room-mate requests from the form into account where we can.
• Meals during the workshop are provided. Dietary requirements from the form are passed on to the venue.

• Laptop and charger (for the hands-on sessions on Day 3)
• Phone with EarthRanger Mobile installed, plus a power bank
• Warm layer, hat and sunscreen for the game drives and field visit
• Any personal medication