Hack The Planet runs on donations, grants and long-term partnerships. The organisations on this page give us the funding, the network and — just as importantly — the trust to keep building technology that protects wildlife and serves people.
Hack The Planet was born inside Q42. It started as a hackathon project, with engineers asking what their craft could mean for conservation. Q42 backed the idea with funding, engineering time and a home — and from there we grew into an independent foundation. They are still a long-term supporter today.
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The Fred Foundation supports projects working towards a harmonious co-existence between people, planet and animals. Their multi-year backing gives us the runway to plan, build and deploy field technology with the patience real impact requires.
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Tanka Foundation funds nature-positive work across three themes — Life with Land, Life Below Water and Future Food Systems. That overlaps almost exactly with the terrain we operate in, and their support helps us scale the deployments we already know work.
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WWF Netherlands brings a global conservation network and decades of field experience to the table. Their support helps us put anti-poaching and monitoring technology in the places where it changes the most.
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Green Safaris combines low-impact tourism with active conservation in southern Africa. They host Hack The Planet deployments in Zambia and contribute the local knowledge and logistics no remote operation can do without.
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Our funders make the work possible. The rangers, NGOs, Indigenous nations, researchers and creative collaborators make it actually happen.
Open-source operational platform for ecosystem monitoring and protected-area management. Our hardware feeds events and tracks straight into EarthRanger so ranger teams can act on them in real time.
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London-based science institution and conservation NGO. We adopted Instant Detect from them and are deploying and improving the technology ever since.
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Builds open-source conservation technology and LoRaWAN networks. Both being a Dutch based non-profit with a similar mission, we share knowledge and technology.
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Slovenian institute building advanced applied systems, with a long track record in open-source conservation hardware. We collaborate on the underlying electronics behind several of our field-deployed devices.
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Runs ranger-led wildlife protection in Zambia's Kafue ecosystem. They host our anti-poaching deployments and turn the signals our hardware generates into action on the ground.
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Anti-poaching unit working across Zambia's South Luangwa Valley. They run our detection tools alongside their ranger patrols in one of Africa's richest wildlife landscapes.
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Co-manages Gonarezhou National Park in southeast Zimbabwe. Our monitoring and detection work supports their elephant- and wildlife-protection mandate.
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International conservation NGO with deep field operations across Africa. We collaborate in Gonarezhou and other protected areas on technology that makes parks safer.
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Gabon's national parks authority. We deploy AI camera traps and acoustic monitoring across their rainforest network in close collaboration with their teams.
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Namibian company building anti-poaching and farm-security solutions. They are our rollout partner in Namibia, deploying our detection technology alongside their local operations on farms and reserves.
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Namibia's leading LoRaWAN system integrator. They run the connectivity our detection hardware relies on in Namibia, deploying the network that gets signals from sensor to ranger.
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Indigenous Nation in British Columbia leading stewardship across their territory. We work with them on biodiversity-monitoring technology in the Salish Sea region.
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Biodiversity consultancy specialising in cumulative-effects monitoring. They bring the scientific rigour to the deployments we run together in western Canada.
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Canadian energy utility. They sponsor biodiversity-monitoring work in their operating areas, where we deploy hardware alongside Zoetica and the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
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Building Europe's largest forest-restoration project across the Romanian Carpathians. We collaborate specifically on human–bear conflict — detecting bears around mountain villages and keeping them at distance with our Smart Deterrent.
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Indigenous-led movement protecting Amazon forests by equipping Forest Guardians to surveil illegal activity in their territory. We help them with the detection side — turning early warning of illegal logging into evidence their patrols can act on.
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Dutch research university. We collaborate on the ecology, acoustics and computer vision that anchor our field deployments.
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UK research university. We partner on the long-term ecological questions our field deployments are designed to help answer.
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Scottish research university with strong programmes in environmental science and ecology. We collaborate on research that helps turn our field deployments into peer-reviewed knowledge.
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Dutch innovation award named after astronaut Wubbo Ockels, honouring sustainable impact. We won an edition and used the prize to support anti-poaching work alongside Conservation South Luangwa in Zambia.
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Global environmental advocacy organisation — and where Hack The Planet's story started. Our very first project, SkyHawq (2016), was built with Greenpeace — an autonomous drone supporting their field work against deforestation and environmental destruction.
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Dutch humanitarian organisation. Together we built immersive VR training experiences for first responders preparing for the emergencies they hope never come.
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Dutch peacebuilding organisation working with communities in fragile contexts. We've built digital storytelling tools that surface community voices in Uganda and beyond.
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Dutch foundation supporting victims of crime and tragedy. Together we build digital interventions for the people who need them most.
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Gemeente Den Haag partners with us on EldersVR — immersive experiences for residents in care, bringing back the places and moments that matter.
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Amsterdam-based creative agency. They help us turn field deployments into films, narratives and visual identity that travel further than the work alone.
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Research, innovation and activation agency that treats young people as the source of insight, not the audience. We collaborate where our technology meets community engagement and youth-led storytelling.
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Medical device manufacturer. We partner on affordable, field-deployable medical hardware designed to reach the most remote care settings.
Visit website →We're always looking for foundations, companies and individuals who want to back technology that protects wildlife and serves communities. Whether it's a one-off donation, a multi-year grant or a strategic partnership — let's talk.