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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

Article

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

Article

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
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 Conflict	6 years 4 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 Conflict	6 years 6 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 Conflict	6 years 6 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 Conflict	6 years 7 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 Conflict	6 years 8 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 Conflict	6 years 8 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 Conflict	6 years 9 months 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 Conflict	6 years 9 months 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 Conflict	6 years 10 months 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 Conflict	6 years 10 months 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 Conflict	7 years 2 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge Announcements	HWC Tech Challenge Update WInners to be announced on the 1st November, 2017 First of all, we’d like to thank you all again for your interest and participation in the...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	7 years 7 months ago

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