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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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#Tech4Wildlife 2020 Photo Challenge In Review

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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

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Accepting Applications: ArcGIS Solutions for Protected Area Management

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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

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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

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Fence-Based Elephant Early Warning System

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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

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HWC Tech Challenge Update: Thermal Elephant Alert System

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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...

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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