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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Leverage Space Technology for Wildlife Protection with the European Space Agency Kick-start Grant

WILDLABS Admin

The European Space Agency is calling for Kick-Start ideas to leverage space technology for wildlife protection. Three main topics of interest have been identified: 1) Wildlife monitoring, tracking and inventory, 2)...

5 July 2017

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From the Field: Eric Becker and designing sensors for wildlife

WILDLABS Admin

In this From the Field interview, we speak to Eric Becker, a conservation technology engineer at the World Wildlife Fund US. He talks about his work in technology design and the key challenges he's experienced...

22 May 2017

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From the Field: Dr Raman Sukumar and Technology Developments Needed to Conserve Elephants

WILDLABS Admin

In this From the Field interview, we speak to Dr. Raman Sukumar, a world renowned expert on Asian elephant conservation. He shares his thoughts on how technology could be used for mitigating elephant-human conflict, and...

5 April 2017

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How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action

Paul Meek

The Camera Traps group is one the most active in our community, with members keen to discuss approaches to data management and processing, study design, and new software and hardware developments. Indeed, the top entry...

23 March 2017

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From the Field: María José Bolgeri and tech to alleviate Puma-Human conflict

María José Bolgeri

In our new From the Field series, we're speaking with WILDLABS members to discover how they use technology in their work. Through these interviews we will be showcasing the variety of technologies our members are...

22 March 2017

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#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Our favourites from 2016

WILDLABS Admin

Are you ready for this year's #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge? In anticipation, we're counting down our ten favourite entries from last year. Do you think you can top these?

1 March 2017

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Working with wolves: Sheepdog puppies join new flock

WILDLABS Admin

Carpathian shepherd dogs have been reintroduced to the Zarand Landscape Corridor to guard livestock and help mitigate human-wildlife conflict in Romania.

28 February 2017

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Conservation Leadership Programme 2017 Award

WILDLABS Admin

The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) is a training and capacity building programme that targets individuals from developing countries who are early in their conservation career and demonstrate leadership...

21 November 2016

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5 Smart Technologies That Will Crack Down On Wildlife Trafficking

WILDLABS Admin

Technology by itself will not save pangolins or elephants, but it can help make major progress.

14 November 2016

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Internet Cats Just Got Bigger

WILDLABS Admin

The internet has a long love affair with cat pictures, but these aren’t your mom’s internet cats. Now internet cats are getting even bigger and wilder. In this article, Dr. Lisa Feldkamp talks about the work Panthera is...

26 October 2016

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Wildlife Tracking Equipment Grants from Holohil Transmitters

WILDLABS Admin

Holohil Systems is now accepting applications for grants to support the purchase of wildlife tracking equipment of up to CDN $2,000 from the Holohil's own product line. Applications are welcome from any geographical...

20 July 2016

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Camera traps reveal mysteries of nature

Roland Kays

Sharing personal 'best of' animal pictures is a favorite pastime of many camera trappers. A prolific camera trapper himself, Roland Kays has pulled together more than 600 images collected by 152 researchers from 54...

18 July 2016

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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