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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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Challenge: ElephantEdge

Smart Parks

Protecting elephants from conservation's most pressing issues like poaching and human-wildlife conflict requires big, bold, and innovative solutions. Hackster.io, Smart Parks, Edge Impulse, Microsoft, and several other...

11 August 2020

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Grassroots Innovations for Wildlife Conservation

Aditya Gangadharan

In the fourth installment of his case study series focusing on preventing human-wildlife conflict, Aditya Gangadharan discusses how local communities develop, test, and implement their own solutions. This article...

19 May 2020

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Get To Know FIT

WILDLABS Team

We're excited to welcome the WildTrack FIT group to our community! Today, we'd like to introduce you to the Footprint Identification Technique (FIT) and share how you can incorporate this tracking method into your field...

6 May 2020

Article

Era of the Condor: A Species' Future in Recovery

Ellie Warren

In this three-part WILDLABS feature article, we'll take a look at the various technologies used to fight the greatest threat to endangered condors, explore the innovations that may change the way we study and understand...

5 May 2020

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Locally-Brewed Conservation Technology from a Small Town in North Bengal

Aditya Gangadharan

In the third part of his series of case studies focusing on preventing human-wildlife conflict within communities, Aditya Gangadharan looks at how one village in North Bengal maximised the potential of an early alert...

10 April 2020

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Testing an Early Warning System to Mitigate Human-Wildlife Conflict on the Bhutan-India Border

Aditya Gangadharan

Aditya Gangadharan's latest case study looks at how sensor technology can provide solutions for human-wildlife conflict instances along the Indo-Bhutan border. This project, which aimed to get the local community...

11 March 2020

Article

3 Ways Your Conservation Technology Could Become a Shiny Pile of Junk, and How to Avoid It

Aditya Gangadharan

Using technology in the field allows us to innovate new solutions to very old problems like human-wildlife conflict, but are you giving enough consideration to how your high-tech tools fit into long-term plans? Before...

9 March 2020

Article

#Tech4Wildlife 2020 Photo Challenge In Review

WILDLABS Team

2020 marked our fifth year holding our annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge, and our community made it a milestone to remember. Conservationists took to Twitter last week to share their best high-tech snapshots from...

4 March 2020

Funding

Accepting Applications: ArcGIS Solutions for Protected Area Management

ESRI

The Esri Conservation Program is now accepting applications for grant assistance to access its ArcGIS Solutions for Protected Area Management Application. This system provides access to a suite of both mobile and web...

4 March 2020

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Call for Nominations: Tusk Conservation Awards

Tusk

The 2020 Tusk Awards are now accepting nominations of outstanding individuals who have made a significant impact on conservation in Africa. These nominations offer the rare and exciting opportunity to honor your peers...

3 March 2020

Article

Fence-Based Elephant Early Warning System

Appiko

Technology is rapidly changing the way communities monitor wildlife movement and prevent or mitigate human-wildlife conflict. This case study from Appiko delves into field testing of the open source sensor warning...

25 February 2020

Article

HWC Tech Challenge Update: Thermal Elephant Alert System

Anne Dangerfield

The Arribada Initiative is back with an update on their thermal elephant alert system which aims to reduce human-elephant conflict (HEC). The success of their system rests on the ability of a camera to accurately...

17 February 2020

Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
Looking to contribute	Hi everybody 👋🏽,I'm a UX designer, and I design interfaces and improve user experiences/flows. I would love to contribute to conservation...		AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict	2 years ago
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 Conflict, Wildlife Crime	2 years 1 month 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 Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Software Development	2 years 2 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 Conflict, Geospatial, Sensors	2 years 5 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 Conflict, Software Development, Wildlife Crime	2 years 10 months 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 Conflict	2 years 11 months 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 Conflict	3 years 3 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 Conflict	3 years 5 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 Conflict	3 years 9 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 Conflict	4 years 1 month 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 Conflict	4 years 7 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 Conflict	4 years 7 months ago

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