Human-Wildlife Conflict

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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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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow/ Project Manager, University of St. Andrews, UK

University of St Andrews

A Post-Doc position is available to join the team coordinating the Urban Exploration Project – a collaborative initiative in partnership between the University of St. Andrews and the National Geographic Society.

2 May 2025

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FROM VULNERABILITY TO SECURITY: INSPIRING COEXISTENCE THROUGH A RESILIENT BOMA

Ashura Rajabu

This project aimed to reduce human-carnivore conflict by building a resilient boma for a vulnerable family in Hunyari village. It served as a model for other families, promoting stronger livestock protection. The...

17 April 2025

Funding

Arctic Community Wildlife Grants Program

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

WWF's Arctic Community Wildlife Grants program supports conservation, stewardship, and research initiatives that focus on coastal Arctic ecology, community sustainability, and priority Arctic wildlife, including polar...

7 March 2025

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INSTANT DETECT 2.0 - ALPHA TESTING

Sam Seccombe

The worst thing a new conservation technology can do is become another maintenance burden on already stretched field teams. This meant Instant Detect 2.0 had to work perfectly from day 1. In this update, Sam Seccombe...

28 January 2025

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INSTANT DETECT 2.0 – THE OPTIMISATION YEARS

Sam Seccombe

The Zoological Society of London's Instant Detect 2.0 is the world's first affordable satellite connected camera trap system designed by conservationists, for conservationists. In this update, Sam Seccombe describes the...

21 January 2025

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Using AI, barriers and bridges to help stop wildlife-vehicle collisions

Lars Holst Hansen

Wildlife on roads creates a significant hazard in rural areas, to humans and animals alike. Low-tech prevention methods such as overpasses give great results, but they are expensive and can’t cover every scenario. Now...

12 November 2024

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Could AI Unlock the Secrets of Animal Communication? | The Future With Hannah Fry

Lars Holst Hansen

Very nice video!

7 October 2024

Funding

Calling for applications for Round 3 of our Satellites for Biodiversity Award Grant

Emma Oldham

The Connected Conservation is thrilled to announce our award's third round in collaboration with the Airbus Foundation. This award champions the use of cutting-edge satellite imagery to tackle biodiversity loss and...

30 September 2024

Funding

The Human–Wildlife Initiative has opened a call for proposals (€10-70k)

Frank van der Most

The Human-Wildlife Initiative operates in three areas, viz. France's Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur ( PACA ) region, French-speaking Switzerland and Spain. Each has it's own call with it's own specifics.

11 September 2024

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Call for PapersManaging Human-wildlife Conflict in Big Cats

Alex Rood

Wildlife Letters is announcing a call for papers on managing human-wildlife conflict in big cats

22 August 2024

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Judging Panel Award Winners: 2024 #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge

Alex Rood

Join us in celebrating this year’s Judging Panele Award winners!

19 August 2024

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Community Choice Award Winners: 2024 #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge

Natalie Peoples

Join us in celebrating this year’s Community Choice Award winners!

15 August 2024

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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