ABOUT WILDTAC INTERNATIONAL

Conservation capacity shouldn't have to start over on every continent.

WildTAC International is a U.S.-based nonprofit establishing itself as the coordinating hub for a worldwide federation of regional wildlife tracking and conservation capacity organisations — beginning with WildTAC Africa and WildTAC North America.

Why a network, not a single organisation

Wildlife tracking is one of the oldest field sciences, and one of the most context-specific. The species, the terrain, the institutions, and the people who already hold this knowledge are different on every continent. A single centralised organisation cannot reflect that. A federation can.

Each regional WildTAC organisation is independently founded and led by practitioners from that region. WildTAC International's role is to hold the things that genuinely benefit from being shared: a common field standard, a network identity, cross-chapter learning, and a single front door for global partners and funders.

This model mirrors what has worked for comparable global conservation networks: a network hub, independent locally governed members, and a voluntary compact around shared mission and method — not ownership or control.

Local leadership, always

Every chapter is founded and run by people from its own region — never directed from the U.S. hub.

One field standard

A shared, internationally recognised certification method so skills and data hold up across borders.

Institutional roots

Universities, park authorities, and NGOs are partners from the first season, not an afterthought.

Built to outlast a pilot

Every chapter is designed from the outset as a durable institution, not a project with an end date.

At a glance

WILDTAC INTERNATIONAL · U.S. NONPROFIT

Status
Founding period — U.S. nonprofit registration in progress.

Model
Network hub + independently governed regional member organisations.

Active chapters
WildTAC Africa (est. 2026), WildTAC North America (est. 2026).

Flagship programme
West Africa Wildlife Tracking Project — Mole National Park, Ghana, 2027.

Field standard
CyberTracker Conservation Track & Sign, applied across all chapters.

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

Executive and programme leadership

WildTAC International's leadership brings together organisational development, conservation science, applied field practice, strategic partnerships, and locally rooted regional and country leadership.

Kareem A. Dieng

CHAIR, FOUNDING COUNCIL

John K. G. Amonoo

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WildTAC AFRICA

Dr. Abubakar S. Ringim

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER

Rockson Acolatse

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER

Joseph K. Afrifa

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER

Alphonce Msigwa

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER

Helena Tetteh

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER

Dr. Michael Abedi-Lartey

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER

Daniel Nkansah, Esq.

FOUNDING COUNCIL MEMBER

How the structure fits together

NETWORK HUB WildTAC International

Holds the network identity, shared certification standard, and relationships with global partners and funders. Based in the United States.

MEMBER Regional organisation

Independently founded and locally governed in its own region — e.g. WildTAC Africa, WildTAC North America. Sets its own strategy, raises its own funding, leads its own programmes under the shared field standard.

BINDING MECHANISM Network Charter

Each regional organisation signs an Affiliation Agreement committing to the shared field standard, network identity, and cross-chapter collaboration — while retaining full operational independence.

FIELD Local teams & partners

Park authorities, universities, and community trackers delivering certified Track & Sign and Trailing programmes in the field — the level where conservation outcomes happen.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS

Guided by senior CyberTracker evaluators

The network's field standard is anchored by two of the most experienced tracker-evaluators working today. Both serve as International Advisors to WildTAC and as the initial CyberTracker evaluators for the WildTAC Africa chapter's 2027 Ghana pilot.

Dr. Kersey Lawrence

INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR · CYBERTRACKER SENIOR TRACKER / EVALUATOR

Holds a PhD in the ecology and culture of tracking, and is the first and, to date, only woman to earn CyberTracker Senior Tracker status. She leads Original Wisdom, serves as Honorary Faculty at the University of Aberdeen, and leads CyberTracker certification programmes internationally.

INITIAL EVALUATOR · WILDTAC AFRICA

Lee Gutteridge

INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR · CYBERTRACKER MASTER TRACKER / EVALUATOR

A CyberTracker Master Tracker and Evaluator with more than 30 years of field experience. He leads Nature Guide Training and authored the Tracks & Signs field-guide series, and has trained and assessed trackers across Africa and beyond.

INITIAL EVALUATOR · WILDTAC AFRICA