Lucy Smyth

Lucy is a conservation scientist with Natural State, where she works on developing methods to quantify change in biodiversity in response to restoration initiatives. Her work is mainly focused on collecting, processing and analysing data from passive sensors such as acoustic monitors and camera traps. Currently, the projects she is involved in are focused on data from the Kenyan rangelands and the Namibian drylands. Together, Natural State and the LCNR are working on developing robust and scalable solutions for monitoring change in these systems and interpreting these changes in the context of nature recovery. This will help to generate actionable insights on ecological restoration.