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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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Micaela Szykman Gunther is a Professor in the Department of Wildlife at Cal Poly Humboldt. She applies studies on animal behavior of (mostly) carnivores and (some) ungulates to inform management of wildlife species.

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@Mohamud
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A passionate Conservationist. Director and Founder to Isiolo County Conservancies Association

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@Gody
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Godfrey Nyangaresi, a dedicated Protection Manager with 12+ years of wildlife conservation experience. Skilled in technologies, administration, and law enforcement, he leads protection efforts at STEP, ensuring the sustainable conservation of elephants in southern Tanzania.

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@GalZanir
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Luc Hoffman Institute

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@egreyl98_gmail_com

Wildlife Ecologist

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Student at Aberystwyth University. Bug Fanatic🪲. Worked at Octophin Digital for my industrial year placement 🐙.

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@hirarisasaki_jica

Working for India's Forestry and Biodiversity Sector as a country officer of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

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@mbkowalski11
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University of California Santa Cruz

PhD Student (UCSC, Wilmers Lab) interested in large carnivores, behavioral ecology, human-wildlife coexistence, and biologging

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Dr. Kadambari Devarajan is an engineer-turned-ecologist working on biodiversity monitoring. (Website - http://kadambarid.in/)

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@JohPlo

Early career, assistance in biologging projects with owls and eagles

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Locally fabricated electric/solar fencing widely spreading in Bhutan	Dear Femke, Thank you for your email. I hope I can hear from Mohan Raj. Electric fencing is one area where it can play very important role in human wildlife conflict management...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 7 months ago
How camera traps help reduce tension between farmers and cheetahs in Botswana	Dear all, We wanted to share an interesting article we came across some time ago. It is about human-wildlife conflicts in Botswana, and...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 7 months ago
Google AI Impact Challenge	Hi all, I just came accross this interesting website and call for proposals for the use of Artificial Intelligence to help address...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 9 months ago
Working together for wildlife	Hi Nilanga, Thanks for introducing me here and I'm looking forward to some interesting discussions with everyone here! Femke		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 9 months ago
E-Shepherd Collars - Anyone working with them?	Hello Fleury I am aware that such a collar has been tested in France to protect sheeps fromm wolves' attacks. I am also looking for some information about it to...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 9 months ago
Early animal detection	Hi Anne and the Arribada team. This is such an exciting project and so pleased to see the progress you are making. A couple of quick ideas sprang to mind reading your...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 11 months ago
Exchange of solutions submitted to the HWC Tech Challenge	Here's a blurb of our idea cut-and-pasted from our application: We propose utilising animal detection and alerting technology that Wild Spy has already developed and...	+7	Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 11 months ago
Update on Richard Turere, inventor of 'Lion lights'	Does anyone remember the 11-year-old Masaai boy who invented 'Lion Lights' as a solution to stop lions from killing his livestock?...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years ago
Conservation Biology Special Section: Call for HWC Papers	*Call for Papers: Challenges and solutions to human-wildlife conflict in agricultural landscapes* SCB journal...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years ago
Stop Elephant Poaching from the Demand Side	Our new mobile app, "i of the Elephant", is beginning to pay off. Acting on a report from our app, last month agents from the New York State Department of...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years ago
HWC online document library now live	The IUCN HWC task force has launched a new online document library. In the library, you will find some key literature on many human-...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 1 month ago
Reporting back: Duke Blueprint Conference	I second Nilanga's words -- inspiring and valuable experience and innovative results from this event. It was an amazing opportunity to meet and network with a group of...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	7 years 5 months ago

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