Metric Mind Develop builds conservation intelligence tools and advises on landscape-scale programmes across the Zambezi Basin. We turn ecological data into decisions that matter.
Four platforms built from the ground up for southern African conservation — tested in the KAZA landscape, designed for NGOs, parks authorities, and tourism operators.
Every image tells the full story. Now you can act on it.
Conservation organisations and tourism operators collect thousands of camera trap images. Most of that intelligence never gets used. FaunaFinder changes that — automatically surfacing what matters from every image so your team can respond, not just review.
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A health report for any landscape, from any location.
Give us a location and we return a full ecological health assessment — vegetation condition, water stress, land cover change, and a narrative report ready for donors or decision-makers.
From legislation to operational conservancy, step by step.
Zimbabwe's Parks and Wildlife Amendment Act 2024 created a path for community conservancies. This tool guides NGO staff through every phase — from eligibility to governance to M&E — so nothing falls through the cracks.
Your logframe becomes a live management system.
Donor-funded projects spend too much time producing reports and too little time acting on data. E-SMRV turns a logical framework into a day-to-day project system — from field data collection to donor-ready outputs, in one place.
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We don't just build tools — we advise on the programmes, proposals, and institutional frameworks that tools need to operate inside. Six service lines, all grounded in field experience across the Zambezi Basin.
Concept notes and full proposals for conservation and climate finance instruments. We understand what funders need to see — and how to position a landscape-scale programme for approval.
Tell me moreRegular landscape health monitoring delivered as subscription reports — vegetation condition, water stress, land cover change, and narrative interpretation for non-technical audiences.
Tell me moreCommunity conservancy setup, legal registration, benefit-sharing model design, and governance frameworks under Zimbabwe's current legislative environment.
Tell me moreMeasurement, reporting, and verification design for conservation and climate projects — structured to hold up under independent evaluation and third-party validation.
Tell me moreEnd-to-end deployment of AI and monitoring tools for conservation organisations — from pilot setup and field training to data pipeline design and ongoing technical support.
Tell me moreThe Western Zimbabwe Landscape Programme applies a new framework: biophysical systems are hard limits on economic activity — the same way zoning constrains urban development. This changes how finance, regulation, and investment flow into the landscape.
Five institutional workstreams — spanning financial regulation, utility tariffs, concession conditions, and development finance safeguards — create the consequence architecture that 15 years of voluntary biodiversity finance has failed to build.
Builder and systems thinker at the intersection of ecological intelligence, conservation finance, and institutional design. Leads product development, landscape programme design, and the Hidden Balance Sheet research programme.
Brings 15+ years at the interface of policing, wildlife crime, and community trust-building. Led community engagement at Woodlands Community Reserve — ensuring the conservancy attracts investors while meaningfully improving local livelihoods.
We build conservation intelligence tools and advise on the landscape-scale programmes that those tools need to operate inside. The work spans ecological data, institutional design, and community trust — because none of these succeeds without the other two.
Our "Hidden Balance Sheet" research programme — quantifying the economic cost of natural capital destruction across Zimbabwe — provides the analytical foundation for both the Western Zimbabwe Landscape Programme and our broader conservation finance advisory work.
Whether you're exploring a product, scoping a proposal, or thinking through a landscape programme — we'd rather have the conversation than send you a brochure. Tell us what you're working on.