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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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Human-Elephant Conflict Tech Solution in Tsavo: NdovuCare

Esther Githinji and 1 more

Read our interview with Sandra Maryanne, a young conservation tech innovator raised in Taita, Ivarenyi with first-hand experience on the challenges of human-elephant conflict within her community. To address this, she...

7 August 2023

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What Technologies are you using to Mitigate Human-Wildlife Conflict across East Africa?

Esther Githinji

Human-Wildlife Conflict is a pressing conservation challenge affecting natural ecosystems, biodiversity and local communities across East Africa. This has led to the development and adoption of diverse conservation...

1 August 2023

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Innovation wanted: Technology Testing to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict in West Bengal

Hirari Sasaki

JICA, Japan’s International Cooperation Agency is seeking a digital partner with a proven track record in conservation technology as we launch a pilot project to test technologies to mitigate human-elephant conflict in...

19 June 2023

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Big Life Foundation: Improving Connectivity to Fight Wildlife Crime

Big Life Foundation

In this Conservation Tech Showcase case study from Big Life Foundation, you’ll learn about their successes using EarthRanger and LoRaWAN Smart Parks Solution technologies to monitor wildlife in East Africa.

8 June 2023

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How lights help keep lions and livestock alive in Kenya

Esther Githinji

Richard Turere from Kitengela, invents flashing lights to mitigate human wildlife conflict. He came up with “Lion Lights,” a system that deters predators such as lions from attacking livestock using flashing lights....

31 May 2023

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Deadline Approaching: Conservation Tech Award

Jordan Steward

Are you using or creating tech to protect wildlife? We want to support your organization through two $15,000 grants!

15 May 2023

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Video: Virginia Tech tracking bobcats to preserve wildlife

Stephanie O'Donnell

Quick feature of Virgina Tech project using camera traps and biologgers to track bobcats, collecting data to inform human-wildlife coexistance efforts

26 April 2023

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Using acoustic monitoring to track infectious disease risk

Carly Batist

New paper in Trends in Parasitology discusses how acoustic monitoring can be used to assess presence and overlap of host or reservoir species, disease vectors and human activity.

8 March 2023

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Climate crisis drives a rise in human-wildlife conflicts

Ellie Warren

New article about how climate change and human-wildlife conflict go hand-in-hand. Would be interesting to hear from our climate change and HWC groups about how climate scientists and community members who are innovating...

1 March 2023

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“Smelly” Elephant Repellent

Ernest Oniba

Assessing the Efficacy of a Novel Olfactory Approach to Mitigating Elephant Crop Raiding in Uganda and Kenya

24 February 2023

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Mobilising East African nature restoration professionals

Matthew Creasey

Scholarships available for training courses focussing on nature restoration in East Africa

21 February 2023

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Hiring Full Stack Developer at Conservation X Labs

Henrik Cox

Technology to End the Sixth Mass Extinction. Salary: $104k-144K; Location: Washington DC or Seattle WA, potential hybrid; 5+ years of Full stack development experience; Deadline March 15th - view post for full job...

10 February 2023

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Rhino horns in medicine	Hi everyone,I'm new here :)I'm doing my thesis of biology bachelor about Rhino poaching. I wanted to ask here if yu have some articles...		AI for Conservation, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Wildlife Crime	2 years 4 months ago
Moveapps: EMAC23 Coding Challenge	Hi Andrea! Although I am a keen user and observer of the Moveapps initiative, my R or Python coding skills are next to non- existing. I am therefore not likely to be contributing...		Animal Movement, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Open Source Solutions, Software Development	2 years 5 months ago
Help - Innovative ways to track elephant movement	I just came across this interesting paper in which seismic monotoring of animals like elephants was mentioned. This is the study refered to:Cheers,Lars		AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Geospatial, Sensors	2 years 8 months ago
Hello there	Hi everyone, I'm new here! I'm a UX designer and researcher, and an animal lover. Excited to be part of Conservation Tech here at WildLabs...		AI for Conservation, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Software Development, Wildlife Crime	3 years 1 month ago
Temporarily marking of polar bears entering villages	Hi @Femke_Hilderink , long time no speak! What an interesting problem/project! Does it have to be paint, as there was this project a while back: I don't know how it...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	3 years 1 month ago
International Platform to exchange knowledge and experiences about solutions/initiatives on Human-Wildlife conflict issues	Why this collaboration platform? What entails to become ENCOSH member? Tackling human-wildlife coexistence issues requires an holistic approach with various initiatives/...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	3 years 6 months ago
Tech, Evidence and Financial Compensation for livestock losses due to predators	This is an awesome thread and very enlightening. Thank you! I started reading this as Oregon recently had an entire pack of wolves poisoned, and I wanted to understand the...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	3 years 8 months ago
Incubating grassroots innovations (tech/non-tech) to mitigate conflict	My colleagues* and I have developed a model for identifying changemakers from forest-dependent communities, and incubating their ideas (...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	3 years 11 months ago
Warn elephants using infrasound?	You should check out Smart Parks (https://www.smartparks.org/) and Hack the Poacher (https://www.hackthepoacher.com/). Also - Fazil, M., & Firdhous, M. (2018...	+1	Human-Wildlife Coexistence	4 years 4 months ago
Helping humans and tigers to co-exist in India	For WildTrack's friends and supporters, we're offering a special @GivingTuesday opportunity by matching $ for $ donations up to $2,500 to...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	4 years 8 months ago
Predator Deterrent - Human Effigy Based	About a year ago, Lyn Watson from Australian Dingo Foundation approached me with an idea to develope a solution to reduce conflict between...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	4 years 10 months ago
Audio play back device when elephant crop raids	We actually designed Boombox, the audio player shown above, based on the ABRS system by the Suraci paper and with Dr. Meredith Palmer. We made some optimizations on it since the...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	4 years 10 months ago

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