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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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Wolf protection vests for dogs	Hi all, Just saw this on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38288999 Dogs in one town...	Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 5 months ago
WildLabs success! E-shepherd predator deterrent trials in USA	@Suzanne.Stone have you had any success with your trials in Idaho?	Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 6 months ago
Camera Trap based Alarm Systems	Hi everyone! I have just posted about my machine-vision based elephant-detection system which I am currently attempting to develop! https://www.wildlabs.net/...	Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 6 months ago
New journal article shows deficiency of studies on effectiveness of predator controls	Hi all, I thought I'd alert you to this recent journal article, which looked at all published research on predator...	Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 8 months ago
How can we bridge the gap in mitigating human-wildlife conflict?	Hi John, I have two good friends in Kenya who have some answers. I'll ask them to come here and tell you more... Marie	Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 8 months ago
Article: Drawing Eyes on Cow Butts May Ward Off Hungry Lions	http://gizmodo.com/drawing-eyes-on-cow-butts-may-ward-off-hungry-lions-1783744270 Drawing Eyes on Cow Butts May Ward Off Hungry...	Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 10 months ago
Migration monitoring app	Hello all, Another thought I had regarding human-wildlife conflict. Since wildlife migrations occur around similar times, every year,...	Human-Wildlife Conflict	9 years ago
Deterring bears while backpacking	Ho John, That's a great idea and thanks for sharing, but as you said, limitations on battery and speaker capacity abound. Might anyone else have any thoughts on how we...	Human-Wildlife Conflict	9 years 1 month ago

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