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Projects

A portfolio of conservation, humanitarian and community projects — from rangers in Zambia to elderly care in The Hague.

Real-time wolf monitoring during denning season
Vancouver, Canada · 2026

Real-time wolf monitoring during denning season

AI cameras watching wolf families through denning season — giving ecologists data on the most sensitive time of year without ever entering the territory.
Real-time bear monitoring with WWF Romania
Romania · 2026

Real-time bear monitoring with WWF Romania

4G cameras with a two-stage AI pipeline that recognise brown bears in real time and push the detections straight into the Sensing Clues platform.
The Elephant in the Room
Zimbabwe · 2025

The Elephant in the Room

An online interactive about human-wildlife coexistence — built around a 3×2 m oil painting by Zambian artist Silvester Mali.
A LoRaWAN-backed anti-poaching network
South Luangwa, Zambia · 2024

A LoRaWAN-backed anti-poaching network

Deploying ScannerEdge across one of Zambia's most biodiverse and vulnerable wildlife regions.
Detecting poachers by their phones and radios
Namibia · 2024

Detecting poachers by their phones and radios

A discreet, technology-driven early-warning system for covert anti-poaching operations.
Sky-dancer bear deterrent prototype
Carpathian Mountains, Romania · 2024

Sky-dancer bear deterrent prototype

A new prototype that adds wild, unpredictable motion to the deterrent toolbox — for the bears that learn to ignore everything else.
Keeping elephants out of villages without harm
Kafue NP, Zambia · 2023

Keeping elephants out of villages without harm

Preventing dangerous encounters between elephants and nearby villages with AI detection and non-lethal deterrents.
Help Maya
The Hague, the Netherlands · 2023

Help Maya

A WhatsApp-based interactive experience addressing knife violence among adolescents — co-created with local teens and police.
Detecting poachers before they reach wildlife
Gonarezhou NP, Zimbabwe · 2023

Detecting poachers before they reach wildlife

Deploying ScannerEdge to detect illegal human activity inside one of Zimbabwe's largest protected areas.
Keeping brown bears out of mountain villages
Carpathian Mountains, Romania · 2023

Keeping brown bears out of mountain villages

15 AI cameras and 15 Smart Deterrents to keep brown bears out of mountain villages — without harming them.
WTFFF!?
The Netherlands · 2022

WTFFF!?

An online interactive about online sexual abuse — built with survivors, for Gen Z. No games, no gimmicks — just the truth.
Real-time biodiversity monitoring where no network reaches
Lopé NP, Gabon · 2021

Real-time biodiversity monitoring where no network reaches

AI camera traps with satellite connectivity giving researchers real-time insight into the rainforest. The pilot that became Instant Detect.
Know Your Neighbor
The Hague, the Netherlands · 2021

Know Your Neighbor

An immersive installation that lets visitors step behind real front doors and experience the lives of people in their own community.
Video laryngoscope
The Netherlands · 2020

Video laryngoscope

An affordable laryngoscope for resource-limited healthcare settings — engineered with off-the-shelf parts and 3D printing.
Club Kakatua
The Netherlands · 2020

Club Kakatua

A transparent crowdfunding platform for projects with a clear head and tail — built so supporters could fund initiatives and actually follow what happened next. Today the platform continues as The Restoration Club.
Red Cross VR
The Netherlands · 2018

Red Cross VR

A VR game about the laws of war — putting trainees inside ethically and legally complex conflict scenarios.
A cellphone-detection prototype in Kafue
Kafue NP, Zambia · 2018

A cellphone-detection prototype in Kafue

The first solar-powered RF sensor prototype, deployed in Kafue National Park with Green Safaris — the field test that would eventually become ScannerEdge.
Meet the Soldier
Karamoja, Uganda · 2017

Meet the Soldier

A humanitarian VR documentary facilitating dialogue between former adversaries in Uganda's Karamoja region.
Ground Hawq
The Netherlands · 2017

Ground Hawq

A low-cost, 3D-printed self-driving robotic platform — modular enough to carry medical kits, thermal cameras or whatever the mission needs.
EldersVR
The Hague, the Netherlands · 2017

EldersVR

Combating loneliness with immersive VR experiences for older adults — born from a hackathon, now in care homes.
The Bigger Picture
The Netherlands · 2016

The Bigger Picture

An interactive layer over World Press Photos that gives the story behind the image — without taking your eyes off the photograph.
SkyHawq
Sumatra, Indonesia · 2016

SkyHawq

An autonomous fixed-wing drone supporting conservation teams in the fight against deforestation, poaching and environmental destruction.

Where we work

From small towns to rainforests and ranger stations. Click a dot to see what we've shipped there.

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