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Date & Time
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location Name
Seminar 3
Name
Agile in the Wild: Sustainability by Adopting XP Values in Wildlife Conservation
Description

Wildlife conservation and communication for diverse stakeholders in pursuit of different interventions that work for different ecosystems are complex. How might we embody an Agile mindset in wildlife conservation to simplify? How might we apply lessons learned to help conservationists, policymakers, and communities in their quest to achieve an ecosystem balance? How might we leverage Agile practices to co-create solutions with local communities and key stakeholders to address human-wildlife conflict, invasive infrastructure, and tourism efforts? This immersive conservation experience report seeks to explore this topic by applying agility in one of Kenya's Maasai Mara conservancies. It is a firsthand field experience by Agile practitioners and a Wildlife Ecologist that describes difficulties encountered, opportunities seized, and Agile frameworks explored to help navigate the complex savanna. It's not a one-size-fits-all approach but rather a test-and-learn which focuses on outcomes delivery and shared purpose. Moreover, governments, national reserves, conservancies, and policymakers need to sense and respond to solve the conservation dilemma as they play a vital role in shaping sustainable communities. Truly, "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one more responsive to change." — Charles Darwin.

Gladys Ng'weno
Track
Product and Design
Keywords
Agile, Sustainability, Wildlife Conservation, Human wildlife conflict, Ecosystem Balance, Lions