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Human-wildlife coexistence is a significant challenge that only grows as habitats shrink and other issues like climate change alter the natural world. Technologies like biologging gear have become essential for proactively reducing human-wildlife conflict before it escalates, and tech projects that seek to understand population ranges and behaviour can help people learn to live with wildlife as part of our own environments. If you're interested in using technology to enhance human-wildlife coexistence, this group is the place for you!

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Human-wildlife conflict and coexistence is a shockingly common problem, often with enormous consequences for both individual animals and entire populations.

When human-wildlife conflict comes to mind, you may immediately think of wildlife crime instead - which isn't wrong, since many regions with wildlife crime problems like poaching are also areas where people may frequently deal with human-wildlife conflict, causing the two issues to go hand-in-hand. But human-wildlife conflict is a much broader issue encompassing many ways that human presence and interference can cause problems for us and animals alike. Human-wildlife conflict includes:

Elephants trampling a farmer's crops, resulting in retaliation
New real estate developments infringing on ecosystems where predator species live, leading to predators having less territory and less food, which in turn leads to predators attacking domestic animals and livestock
Freeways dividing the territory of animals like mountain lions, leading to wildlife venturing into neighborhoods or being killed by cars
Lead bullets used in hunting causing scavengers like condors to die of lead poisoning

These are just a few examples of how humans can negatively impact wildlife, and it's clear to see how many of these scenarios could escalate. Human-wildlife conflict solutions don't just include ways in which we can prevent these issues (for example, through tracking predators, monitoring populations' territories, or building barriers and wildlife crossings monitored by sensors), but also the ways in which we can help people connect with wildlife and care about learning to live alongside them.

If you're interested in solutions that can prevent human-wildlife conflict, join this group and get to know the people who are working to protect and save species around the world!

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(Tropical) forest ecologist w interest: biodiversity, camera traps, community led conservation & more. Passionate about inclusive nature for all.

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@Faithachieng
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An ornithologist with a focus on birds of prey, combining field experience and scientific research. I am a bird ringer, contributing to conservation efforts through monitoring and tracking avian populations.

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@Marykinoi

I am a dedicated professional with a bachelor of science in Wildlife management. I have extensive experience working in research as a Research Assistant and currently serve as a Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Supervisor.

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@Alasdair

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Director at Arribada, a UK-based conservation technology research & development organisation

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@Peter_Apps

Botswana Predator Conservation Trust

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Wildlife Biologist/Conflict Specialist and drone enthusiast in Montana

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@djoachim

I work in conservation on integrating the technology out there for custom solutions for partners.

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@adanger24
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Arribada Initiative

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A biodiversity specialist with a penchant for using data, tools and applications for conservation and management of wildlife. That's IT.

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I graduated in Ms of Entomology, and currently I work with Conservation International Cambodia as Biodiversity and Science Senior Coordinator.

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Passionate about wildlife and impact investment with an academic, research and practitioner background in environmental science, environmental law and green criminology pursued in Central America, China, Tanzania and the United Kingdom I am driven to decolonise the research on c

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Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
HWC Tech Challenge Announcements	HWC Tech Challenge Update WInners to be announced on the 1st November, 2017 First of all, we’d like to thank you all again for your interest and participation in the...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 10 months ago
Predator Protection Device emits random lights and sounds	Hello, this device looks really interesting...has anyone tryed? what brand is it? how much does it cost? what's the range of the speakers? what kind of sound does it makes? I...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 11 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - General Discussion	Hi Mark and Teun, we have been investigating this technology also. It is already being used, but has two problems. First, their reach is often very limited (around 50m) and the...	+13	Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 11 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Asian Elephant Case	Dear Somak, Thank you very much for writing and we are sorry information on the challenge did not reach you in time. We are certainly interested in furthering discussions...	+14	Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 11 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Polar Bear Case	Hi Gwen, That's a tough question Gwen! And for any destination in the Arctic counts: it is horribly expensive! I suggest you count on Iqaluit in Nunavut-Canada. Access is...	+12	Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 11 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Tiger Case	Thank you, Gert. My proposed solution takes security into account heavily. Excited to share it with you and the panel as well. Claire	+7	Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 11 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Additional background reading + resources	Additional information on human-polar bear conflicts can be found in this article		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	8 years 1 month ago
Seeking collaboration and co-financing for PhD research: How land tenure arrangements impact upon illegal hunting in Sub-Saharan Africa	Friends and fellow researchers in the WILDLABS community I would like to hear your valuable opinions on the doctoral research project I am...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Funding and Finance	8 years 1 month ago
acoustics for Human-Wildlife Conflict Prevention, Anti-poaching, and more	For those interested: in the acoustics channel I have posted news on our sound event recognition sensor, using conv-net: https://...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	8 years 4 months ago
Upcoming human-wildlife conflict workshop	Hello all! There's going to be a workshop led by Human Wildlife Conflict Collaboration on the fundamentals of HWC. It will...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	8 years 4 months ago
Education to combat wildlife crime	Peter, thanks for your reply and sorry for the dealyed repsonse, I have been ahving some issues getting alerts in my email. I would like to talk to you more about your...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	8 years 4 months ago
Infrastructure impacts	Hi Udayan, Many thanks for following up and it's great to hear that it's an area of interest for you as well. I'm certainly interested to hear more about the work...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	8 years 7 months ago

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