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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!

Header image: Casey Allen on Unsplash

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Elephant's Banquet

Femke Hilderink

Human-wildlife conflict can be difficult to understand without knowing its impact on people and communities. In this case study, authored by community member and Human Wildlife Conflict Tech Challenge coordinator Femke...

19 September 2017

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A first-person account of the capture of a tiger in Pilibhit: Four elephants and a bulldozer, as seen from a drone

Shashank Srinivasan

Earlier this year, WILDLABS community member Shashank Srinivasan was involved in an operation to capture the Pilibhit man-eater. In this account, he shares how they successfully managed to tranquilize and capture the...

10 August 2017

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From the Field: Developing a new camera trap data management tool

Chris Mann

Frustrated by the limitations of the tools that were available for managing large camera trap data sets, Heidi Hendry and Chris Mann set out to develop something that met their needs, and thus, Camelot was born. In...

7 July 2017

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Leverage Space Technology for Wildlife Protection with the European Space Agency Kick-start Grant

WILDLABS Admin

The European Space Agency is calling for Kick-Start ideas to leverage space technology for wildlife protection. Three main topics of interest have been identified: 1) Wildlife monitoring, tracking and inventory, 2)...

5 July 2017

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From the Field: Eric Becker and designing sensors for wildlife

WILDLABS Admin

In this From the Field interview, we speak to Eric Becker, a conservation technology engineer at the World Wildlife Fund US. He talks about his work in technology design and the key challenges he's experienced...

22 May 2017

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From the Field: Dr Raman Sukumar and Technology Developments Needed to Conserve Elephants

WILDLABS Admin

In this From the Field interview, we speak to Dr. Raman Sukumar, a world renowned expert on Asian elephant conservation. He shares his thoughts on how technology could be used for mitigating elephant-human conflict, and...

5 April 2017

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How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action

Paul Meek

The Camera Traps group is one the most active in our community, with members keen to discuss approaches to data management and processing, study design, and new software and hardware developments. Indeed, the top entry...

23 March 2017

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From the Field: María José Bolgeri and tech to alleviate Puma-Human conflict

María José Bolgeri

In our new From the Field series, we're speaking with WILDLABS members to discover how they use technology in their work. Through these interviews we will be showcasing the variety of technologies our members are...

22 March 2017

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#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Our favourites from 2016

WILDLABS Admin

Are you ready for this year's #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge? In anticipation, we're counting down our ten favourite entries from last year. Do you think you can top these?

1 March 2017

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Working with wolves: Sheepdog puppies join new flock

WILDLABS Admin

Carpathian shepherd dogs have been reintroduced to the Zarand Landscape Corridor to guard livestock and help mitigate human-wildlife conflict in Romania.

28 February 2017

Funding

Conservation Leadership Programme 2017 Award

WILDLABS Admin

The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) is a training and capacity building programme that targets individuals from developing countries who are early in their conservation career and demonstrate leadership...

21 November 2016

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5 Smart Technologies That Will Crack Down On Wildlife Trafficking

WILDLABS Admin

Technology by itself will not save pangolins or elephants, but it can help make major progress.

14 November 2016

Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
Did you know that Wildtrack's Footprint Identification Technique (FIT) can be used to promote human-wildlife coexistence!	Thank you for these details. I was about to ask the issues with different substrates. Now I understand the limitations and possibilities. Yeah, I agree that each of these...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	5 years 1 month ago
Technology Showroom of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aided Elephant Early Warning Systems	Hi @Tim+Vedanayagam Thank you for posting this. I'd be happy to contribute to the thermal sensing work under way. Can you confirm - have you built a thermal AI model...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	5 years 4 months ago
Mitigate Elephant-Human Conflict with ADSMO	A neoteric solution:- ADSMO(HWC): https://youtu.be/yG0Z5HaL_tc		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	5 years 8 months ago
[ARCHIVED] Upcoming Event: International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence	Hi everybody! The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, the Global Environment Facility-funded and...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	5 years 9 months ago
AI powered mobile app to save snakes	Thanks Drue for your valuable input. This is certainly not to encourage killing venomouse snakes. We can actually incorporate the featurs you pointed out to save venomouse...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	5 years 10 months ago
Trade of body parts	Tusk are illegally traded by the poachers for earning profit out of it. This needs to be stopped.		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	5 years 11 months ago
Makerspaces to empower communities to develop/refine their own solutions to HEC	Hi Aditya, If you haven't already found it, you should check out our last virtual meetup, it was all about tools and spaces for collaboration and we featured a number...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 2 months ago
Tech for Rewilding Conflicts	Cool idea Ashwan. Looks similar to the virtual parks idea that Laurens is leading. Have you seen it? Also check out rewilding.io and get an entry in to the contest!	+30	Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 5 months ago
Foxlight to deter pumas, but how about Andean foxes?	A very good summary all-round Nilanga. Only a wholistic approach can truly resolve conflict.		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 6 months ago
Mobile phones to reduce HWC	Hi all, We often think about complicated tools when people refer to the use of tech in conservation. But mobile phones can be highly...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 6 months ago
Citizen scientists to analyze HWC interventions	Thanks both for your comments, very interesting indeed! Also great to hear that so many people are eager to get involved in this kind of research and will participate with great...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 6 months ago
Wild pigs crop damage assessment and movement using GIS and drones	Dear Femke, I am actually looking for studying the crop damages using drones and also tracking the movements, may be using GPS collars. But I do not actually know about these...		Human-Wildlife Coexistence	6 years 7 months ago

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