Benefit-sharing & communityChecked Sep 2026

EarthRanger

EarthRanger, a product of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), is a free real-time monitoring platform that unifies collar, camera-trap, ranger-patrol and sensor data to help manage protected and conserved areas.

Protected-area monitoringReal-time dataWildlife AIOpen-source
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COMMUNITIES
EarthRanger
Founded2017
HQSeattle, USA (Ai2)
StageNon-profit (Ai2)
FundingAllen Institute funded
Founded2017
HQSeattle, USA (Ai2)
StageNon-profit (Ai2)
FundingAllen Institute funded
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Websiteearthranger.com ↗
EvidenceWell corroborated

An operational monitoring layer, Africa-heavy and free, whose live field data can feed project monitoring.

What they do

Inside EarthRanger

EarthRanger ingests real-time data from collars, camera traps, ranger patrols and sensors to give protected-area teams a single operational view, used across more than 2,000 protected and conserved areas in over 100 countries.

On 9 October 2025 the SMART Partnership and EarthRanger announced SERCA, the SMART-EarthRanger Conservation Alliance, integrating the two most widely used conservation-management platforms into a single, free support system; EarthRanger keeps its name.

Under SERCA, SMART is to be phased out as its capabilities are folded into EarthRanger, which will be rebranded as SERCA, with development beginning in 2026.

Signal

Recent developments

  1. Oct 2025SMART Partnership and EarthRanger announced SERCA, an alliance integrating the two platforms into a single, free support system.
Benefit-sharing & community

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Sourcesearthranger.com/news/sercaEarthRanger at Ai2
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