{"id":216884,"date":"2025-12-16T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-to-host-global-conservation-tech-drone-forum-in-march-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:34:50","slug":"kenya-to-host-global-conservation-tech-drone-forum-in-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-to-host-global-conservation-tech-drone-forum-in-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya to Host Global Conservation Tech &#038; Drone Forum in March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya will host the Global Conservation Tech &amp; Drone Forum (GCTDF 2026) from March 2 to 6, 2026, with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) confirmed as the official conservation partner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The forum will be held in Nairobi and Konza Technopolis and will bring together rangers, community leaders, technologists, researchers, policymakers and youth from Africa and beyond to explore the use of technology in protecting biodiversity and restoring ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Themed <em>&#8220;Technology in Service of&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512160589.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya will host the Global Conservation Tech &amp; Drone Forum (GCTDF 2026) from March 2 to 6, 2026, with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) confirmed as the official conservation partner. The forum will be held in Nairobi and Konza Technopolis and will bring together rangers, community leaders, technologists, researchers, policymakers and youth from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":216885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9475,23813,6284,6212,6937,4688,430,9677,257,254,8437],"class_list":["post-216884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conservation","tag-drone","tag-forum","tag-global","tag-host","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-march","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}