OlmoEarth's impact: Africa Wildlife Foundation

In and around Amboseli National Park in Kenya, Africa Wildlife Foundation (AWF) collaborates with local communities to facilitate wildlife movement, mitigate human-wildlife conflict, and monitor progress toward program objectives across a vast and diverse landscape. The team needs updates that are consistent, repeatable, and easy to share so everyone operates from the same picture.

Staff have been hand-annotating satellite imagery with labels for crops, settlements, and other features—an approach that works well enough for small areas but that has proven difficult to scale. What AWF needs is a reliable and up-to-date view of where cropland is and where it is not across the wider Amboseli area. AWF also wants routine tracking of change and better visibility into developments such as settlement growth and livestock enclosures, also known as bomas.

The longer-horizon goal is to expand monitoring to dozens of additional locations throughout Africa.

AWF has begun piloting the OlmoEarth Platform to support their work in Kenya. It brings the full workflow into one place so teams can move from raw imagery to a steady drumbeat of decision-ready insights. Concretely, that means a dependable cropland layer to anchor planning, faster detection of land-use change, and practical refresh cycles that match field budgets and schedules.

With the OlmoEarth Platform, analyses stay consistent and repeatable against program goals—and AWF experts can focus their time where judgment matters most.

Success for AWF means quicker, less costly map refreshes, a shared view among rangers, community leaders, and county officials, and an auditable record of change that guides targeted responses. In short: timely and trustworthy updates that help people act with confidence.