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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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@berylchebet_gmail_com

Iam very passionate in environment as well as wildlife conservation

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@Mizan_malek

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@stankivai

Am a conservation biologist/primatologist passionate about conservation of endangered species, biodiversity monitoring, climate change studies and local livelihoods

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@loki
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I am part of the Human Elephant Conflict Working Group of the African Elephant Specialist Group. Connectedconservation.com

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@Christiaan

I am a Conservation Biologist managing a portfolio of species conservation projects. My current focus is raptors but I also have experience working with large marine mammals and sea birds. My research interests are on evaluating the effectiveness of conservation interventions.

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@elisabethkruger

World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

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@robertohagan

Wildlife conservationist currently working on biodiversity monitoring and community development for AFOLU VCS & CCB projects.

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@Nadeem

I am PhD in Wildlife Ecology/Management from PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan. I have extensive field and lab experience with reptiles, birds, and mammals (10 years). My area of specializations are: wildlife conservation & management, small mammalian survey techniques.

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@bindalery

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@kalexandera
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My search for an ethical system I could understand and believe in led me to nature. She has kept LIFE thriving on the planet for billions of years – she’s the expert! Now I’m excited to share an Ecology of Ethics which stems from and rests on earth wisdom.

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Conservation Leadership Programme 2017 Award

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Wildlife Tracking Equipment Grants from Holohil Transmitters

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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
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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
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