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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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CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites)

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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

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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

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New: Satellites for Biodiversity Award

Emma Oldham

Conservation partnership launches new award to advance biodiversity conservation from space

5 December 2022

Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
Conservation Technology for Human-Wildlife Conflict in Non-Protected Areas: Advice on Generating Evidence	In that case, you might want to keep an eye on the project from @Lars_Holst_Hansen		Camera Traps, AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Protected Area Management Tools	11 months 1 week ago
Operation Ferdinand - a Predator and Livestock Conflict Prevention Video Game!	Hey @FleuryGS :)Bright Frog Game Studios is producing some really cool environmental education video games that more people should know about! I've gone ahead and added it as an...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year ago
Thoughts on RooBadge?	Totally agree.Inititally sceptical until I saw Helena and Graeme were involved.MJ		Acoustics, Citizen Science, Community Base, Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 1 month ago
Early Warning Systems (HWC) - successes/failures, recommendations?	Hi @Henrikcox I hope you are well. I am not sure if you may remember myself and my colleague from CLS. We had a meeting and met in-person at Earthranger last year. ...	+15	Human-Wildlife Conflict, Sensors	1 year 1 month ago
Ai monitoring of wolves in the Netherlands	Great to know Lars! Let's stay in touch on this, would love to join the testing out there.Cheers,Henrik	+68	Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 1 month ago
SURAKHSYA Portal for Human-Elephant Conflict - any updates?	This thread is off-topic in this conversation, so happy to continue it in the other one. However, just noting - your system is one example, but not the only one - there are...		Human-Wildlife Conflict, Data management and processing tools	1 year 1 month ago
Now for Wildlife	Hello community, I wanted to share some exciting updates about my ongoing conservation project for endangered species. I post this here...		Human-Wildlife Conflict, Early Career	1 year 2 months ago
Lion Deterrence	Hi Rokshana,Maybe you can try this product from India called ANIDERS - I think this product would help you a lot. This is their website -		Human-Wildlife Conflict, East Africa Community	1 year 2 months ago
Tools for automating image augmentation	Perfect thanks! I am still a novice using Python but my wife can help me!	+6	AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 3 months ago
Passionate engineer offering funding and tech solutions pro-bono.	Hi Danilo. you seem very passionate about this initiative which is a good start.It is an interesting coincidence that I am starting another project for the coral reefs in the...		Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Sensors, Software Development, Wildlife Crime, Funding and Finance	1 year 3 months ago
Landscape of technology solution for African lion conservation	Hi Jacobo,We have launched a new tracking/logging/finding technology which you may find of interest https://www.tagranger.com/ Based on LoRaWAN (but with yor own...	+6	Human-Wildlife Conflict	1 year 3 months ago
How are Outdoor Fire Detection Systems Adapted for Small Forest Areas, Considering the Predominance of Indoor Fire Detectors?	Fire detection is a sort of broad idea. Usually people detect the products of fire, and most often this is smoke.Many home fire detectors in the US use a radioactive source...		Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors, Wildlife Crime	1 year 4 months ago