Protecting Africa's Rangelands

Gazelle is an applied science lab building technologies at the intersection of remote sensing & ecology to support carbon & biodiversity credit projects

ECOLOGICAL RISKS

A Changing Kalahari

Land management is at the core of wildlife conservation and environmental stewardship. In the last 50 years, the Kalahari has lost 80% of most large antelope species, 90% of the Kalahari lion population, and 800,000 hectares of protected land have been dezoned for private use. Without necessary interventions to protect high-risk areas, overgrazing-driven desertification, shrub encroachment, and poaching threaten some of the largest remaining wilderness areas in Africa.

IPCCC and FAO

OPPORTUNITY

Why Nature?

Nature-based solutions could achieve 30% of the CO2 reductions needed to keep global warming under 2°C by 2030. Grasslands alone cover 40% of our planet's surface, hold 15% of global soil carbon and are home to at least 30% of humanity.

CARBON CREDITS

Our Approach

Gazelle partners with ambitious landowners, communities, and NGOs committed to conserving the Kalahari, Okavango, and other biodiversity hotspots around the world. Gazelle serves as the technical partner to assess, register, and co-develop projects that yield carbon and/or biodiversity credits. Revenues support conservation activities that would otherwise not be feasible. In 2022, Gazelle partnered with Modisa to register Botswana’s first nature-based carbon project.

Learn more about the Modisa Carbon Project

TEAM

Engineers, conservationists and scientists

Amod Daherkar

Co-founder, Chief Executive

Nicolas Esteva

Engineering & Project Ops

Mihir Bendre

Co-founder, Engineering & Project Ops

Dr. Thoralf Meyer

Co-founder, Chief Scientist

Mpho Kelewendo

Field Manager

Hanna Hoogendam

Project Operations

Dr. Gregory Okin

Scientific Advisor

Biggie Tangane

Advisor

FAQs

Leveraging carbon markets for conservation

Gazelle is building the tools and methodologies to scale nature-based climate action through carbon markets

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RESEARCH

Gazelle is building one of the world's largest verified biomass datasets on grasslands

Gazelle is driving data collection across rangelands to accurately map biomass and carbon stocks. Grassland ecosystems cover 40% of the Earth's surface, are home to a third of humanity, and store 15% of global soil carbon. Our data insights drive Gazelle's proprietary ground-truthed technologies.

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