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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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Thermal Sensor Project Update: Testing with live animals at the San Diego Zoo

Arribada Initiative

The winners of our Human Wildlife Conflict Tech Challenge are offering regular updates throughout the year to chronicle their failures, successes and what they learn along the way as they develop their solutions. In...

27 July 2018

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HWC Tech Challenge: Smart Electric Fence Solution

WILDLABS Admin

As people continue to move into natural habitats, conflicts between human beings and wildlife continue to rise. Although there are a number of early-detection systems and tools in place to prevent human-wildlife...

5 June 2018

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HWC Tech Challenge: Thermopile Sensor Project

Arribada Initiative

Conflict between humans and wildlife is increasing as human communities expand and wild habitats are destroyed, prompting need for new mitigation techniques. As a winner of the Human Wildlife Conflict Tech Challenge,...

19 April 2018

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Instant Detect 2.0: A Connected Future for Conservation

Sam Seccombe

‘The Field’… Say the words ‘The Field’ to a group of conservationists and it will immediately conjure up vivid memories of everything from sticky wet rainforests to burning dusty deserts. What’s more, it’s almost...

17 January 2018

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FIT Cheetahs

Larissa Slaney

A new research project is looking to investigate whether technology combined with the ancient skills and knowledge of Namibian trackers can help save cheetahs from extinction. Called FIT Cheetahs, the research project...

4 December 2017

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HWC Tech Challenge Winners Announced

WILDLABS Team

We are delighted to announce that British conservation technologist Alasdair Davies and the Dutch team of Laurens de Groot and Tim van Dam from the ShadowView Foundation are the winners of the first international Human...

1 November 2017

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HWC Tech Challenge Update: Meet the Judges

WILDLABS Team

Our panel of international experts has been hard at work reviewing the 47 proposals we recieved for innovative technological tools to address human wildlife conflict. The panelists have systematically been assessing the...

20 October 2017

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Download New Conservation Tech Guidelines: Camera Traps, Acoustics and LiDAR

Paul Glover-Kapfer

The inherent complexity of not only deploying technologies in the field but also doing so in a scientifically rigorous manner can prove a substantial barrier for the effective use of conservation technologies, and clear...

11 October 2017

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DAS: A Scaleable Solution For Protected Area Management

WILDLABS Team

The Domain Awareness System (DAS) is a revolution in monitoring technology, creating real-time awareness of protected areas assets. This technology has the potential to completely change standard monitoring procedures...

26 September 2017

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Elephant's Banquet

Femke Hilderink

Human-wildlife conflict can be difficult to understand without knowing its impact on people and communities. In this case study, authored by community member and Human Wildlife Conflict Tech Challenge coordinator Femke...

19 September 2017

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A first-person account of the capture of a tiger in Pilibhit: Four elephants and a bulldozer, as seen from a drone

Shashank Srinivasan

Earlier this year, WILDLABS community member Shashank Srinivasan was involved in an operation to capture the Pilibhit man-eater. In this account, he shares how they successfully managed to tranquilize and capture the...

10 August 2017

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From the Field: Developing a new camera trap data management tool

Chris Mann

Frustrated by the limitations of the tools that were available for managing large camera trap data sets, Heidi Hendry and Chris Mann set out to develop something that met their needs, and thus, Camelot was born. In...

7 July 2017

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Predator Protection Device emits random lights and sounds	Hello, this device looks really interesting...has anyone tryed? what brand is it? how much does it cost? what's the range of the speakers? what kind of sound does it makes? I...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	7 years 8 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - General Discussion	Hi Mark and Teun, we have been investigating this technology also. It is already being used, but has two problems. First, their reach is often very limited (around 50m) and the...	+13	Human-Wildlife Conflict	7 years 8 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Asian Elephant Case	Dear Somak, Thank you very much for writing and we are sorry information on the challenge did not reach you in time. We are certainly interested in furthering discussions...	+14	Human-Wildlife Conflict	7 years 8 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Polar Bear Case	Hi Gwen, That's a tough question Gwen! And for any destination in the Arctic counts: it is horribly expensive! I suggest you count on Iqaluit in Nunavut-Canada. Access is...	+12	Human-Wildlife Conflict	7 years 8 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Tiger Case	Thank you, Gert. My proposed solution takes security into account heavily. Excited to share it with you and the panel as well. Claire	+7	Human-Wildlife Conflict	7 years 8 months ago
HWC Tech Challenge - Additional background reading + resources	Additional information on human-polar bear conflicts can be found in this article		Human-Wildlife Conflict	7 years 9 months ago
Seeking collaboration and co-financing for PhD research: How land tenure arrangements impact upon illegal hunting in Sub-Saharan Africa	Friends and fellow researchers in the WILDLABS community I would like to hear your valuable opinions on the doctoral research project I am...		Human-Wildlife Conflict, Funding and Finance	7 years 10 months ago
acoustics for Human-Wildlife Conflict Prevention, Anti-poaching, and more	For those interested: in the acoustics channel I have posted news on our sound event recognition sensor, using conv-net: https://...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years ago
Upcoming human-wildlife conflict workshop	Hello all! There's going to be a workshop led by Human Wildlife Conflict Collaboration on the fundamentals of HWC. It will...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years ago
Education to combat wildlife crime	Peter, thanks for your reply and sorry for the dealyed repsonse, I have been ahving some issues getting alerts in my email. I would like to talk to you more about your...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 1 month ago
Foxlights predator deterrant	Personally, I'd order a few of the $10 radios from eBay and see how they work. They are cheap enough that if they don't work out, you wouldn't be out much money....	+23	Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 1 month ago
Infrastructure impacts	Hi Udayan, Many thanks for following up and it's great to hear that it's an area of interest for you as well. I'm certainly interested to hear more about the work...		Human-Wildlife Conflict	8 years 4 months ago

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