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Human-wildlife conflict 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 addressing 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 prevent human-wildlife conflict, this group is the place for you!

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Human-wildlife conflict 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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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

Careers

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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Call for Proposals: 'Can Technology Save Biodiversity?'

Stephanie O'Donnell

Frontiers in Conservation Science is calling for submissions for a Research Topic that aims at examining the paradoxical relationship that has been established in recent years between the flagships of new technology...

10 February 2023

Careers

Consultancy opportunity: Wildlife monitoring specialist

Anthony Dancer

Consultancy opportunity at ZSL for an experienced monitoring specialist to support species monitoring in rewilding landscapes across Europe

31 January 2023

Article

New: Satellites for Biodiversity Award

Emma Oldham

Conservation partnership launches new award to advance biodiversity conservation from space

5 December 2022

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Presentation opportunity: Text analysis for conservation (NACCB 2024)	Hi folks! Happy 2024 and thanks in advance for your patience in case I over-used tags. If you’re using any form of natural language...		AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Software Development, Wildlife Crime, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT)	1 year 4 months ago
Apply to Beta test Instant Detect 2.0	Will you accept personal/hobbyist focused on conservation on their small plots of land (10-100 acres)?I would, and know others, who would happily pay more than the official...		Camera Traps, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Sensors, Wildlife Crime	1 year 5 months ago
Seeking Host Organisations for Travel Scholarship Application	Hi Eva, Me and my colleagues run a small NGO based on Yogyakarta in Indonesia, although our projects are spread around the country. One of our active project is working with...		Community Base, Animal Movement, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Geospatial	1 year 5 months ago
Thermal cameras for monitoring visitors in highly vulnerable conservation areas	Hi,This is a really late answer but I was new to wildlabs then. I have a security appliance that uses state of the AI models and user defined polygon areas of interest that...		Human-Wildlife Conflict, Camera Traps, Sensors	1 year 5 months ago
New Toolkit to Help Communities in Africa to Live Safely with Elephants	@lucyeking99 opened this month's Variety Hour with a tour of Save the Elephant's evidence based toolbox of tried and...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 5 months ago
Seismic detectors	Hi Antoine, Sorry about the late reply. The field trials were abandoned mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We're planning to improve our prototype and conduct field trials...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 6 months ago
What Biologgers are you using?	Hey Stephanie,Thanks a lot! Sorry I missed your message but of course I can ask our users about their experience with sensors!		Animal Movement, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools	1 year 7 months ago
Interested in being part of the Enduata Emaa CBO's Green Planet Ambassadors Project in Amboseli?	@richardturere Hello :) and a warm welcome to WILDLABS! Here is the link to @Lekato Samuel Lekato - Founder and Chairman, Enduata Emaa CBO. Sam is interested in conservation...		Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 9 months ago
Human/animal detection/alerting	Super, nice to hear. BTW, this project appears new, but it's been in operation b yseveral parties for more than 10 years, so it's mature.No one is playing with it yet as I only...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 10 months ago
pneumatic artificial muscle applications in conservation tech?	Hi all! I am a mechanical engineer working in the Aerospace Engineering department at a University, and I have the opportunity to take over...		Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Open Source Solutions, Sensors	1 year 10 months ago
"FISH BANK PROGRAM"(Transforming fishing cat and fish farmer conflict into conservation)	Thank you		Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 11 months ago
Automated Elephant-detection system	What's the definition of low cost really? Using various cnn models for objection detection the results can be very accurate. The costs would vary. The cheapest Jetson Nano (Old...	+26	Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 11 months ago

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