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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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Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
Technology Showroom of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aided Elephant Early Warning Systems	Hi @Tim+Vedanayagam Thank you for posting this. I'd be happy to contribute to the thermal sensing work under way. Can you confirm - have you built a thermal AI model...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	5 years 2 months ago
Mitigate Elephant-Human Conflict with ADSMO	A neoteric solution:- ADSMO(HWC): https://youtu.be/yG0Z5HaL_tc		Human-Wildlife Conflict	5 years 6 months ago
[ARCHIVED] Upcoming Event: International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence	Hi everybody! The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, the Global Environment Facility-funded and...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	5 years 6 months ago
AI powered mobile app to save snakes	Thanks Drue for your valuable input. This is certainly not to encourage killing venomouse snakes. We can actually incorporate the featurs you pointed out to save venomouse...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	5 years 7 months ago
Trade of body parts	Tusk are illegally traded by the poachers for earning profit out of it. This needs to be stopped.		Human-Wildlife Conflict	5 years 9 months ago
Makerspaces to empower communities to develop/refine their own solutions to HEC	Hi Aditya, If you haven't already found it, you should check out our last virtual meetup, it was all about tools and spaces for collaboration and we featured a number...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	5 years 11 months ago
Tech for Rewilding Conflicts	Cool idea Ashwan. Looks similar to the virtual parks idea that Laurens is leading. Have you seen it? Also check out rewilding.io and get an entry in to the contest!	+30	Human-Wildlife Conflict	6 years 2 months ago
Foxlight to deter pumas, but how about Andean foxes?	A very good summary all-round Nilanga. Only a wholistic approach can truly resolve conflict.		Human-Wildlife Conflict	6 years 3 months ago
Mobile phones to reduce HWC	Hi all, We often think about complicated tools when people refer to the use of tech in conservation. But mobile phones can be highly...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	6 years 3 months ago
Citizen scientists to analyze HWC interventions	Thanks both for your comments, very interesting indeed! Also great to hear that so many people are eager to get involved in this kind of research and will participate with great...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	6 years 3 months ago
Wild pigs crop damage assessment and movement using GIS and drones	Dear Femke, I am actually looking for studying the crop damages using drones and also tracking the movements, may be using GPS collars. But I do not actually know about these...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	6 years 4 months ago
Locally fabricated electric/solar fencing widely spreading in Bhutan	Dear Femke, Thank you for your email. I hope I can hear from Mohan Raj. Electric fencing is one area where it can play very important role in human wildlife conflict management...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	6 years 4 months ago

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