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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Hi everybody! The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, the Global Environment Facility-funded and... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 4 years 9 months ago | |
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... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 4 years 10 months ago | |
Tusk are illegally traded by the poachers for earning profit out of it. This needs to be stopped. |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 4 years 11 months ago | |
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... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 2 months ago | |
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! |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 5 months ago | |
A very good summary all-round Nilanga. Only a wholistic approach can truly resolve conflict. |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 6 months ago | |
Hi all, We often think about complicated tools when people refer to the use of tech in conservation. But mobile phones can be highly... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 6 months ago | |
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... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 6 months ago | |
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... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 7 months ago | |
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... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 7 months ago | |
Dear all, We wanted to share an interesting article we came across some time ago. It is about human-wildlife conflicts in Botswana, and... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 7 months ago | |
Hi all, I just came accross this interesting website and call for proposals for the use of Artificial Intelligence to help address... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 5 years 9 months ago |
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Seeking Advice on Thermal Drones for Night-Time Elephant Observation
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9 August 2024 12:55pm
Hi Nilaksha,
maybe it helps 😉 My free manual 'Drones in Biomonitoring' - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8077113 can help to get (more) knowledge how to proceed easily and successfully 😉
It covers topics from buy to fly and data processing.
📖 The manual was developed to help authorities, landscape conservation / maintenance or nature conservation associations etc. in nature conservation to manage their growing monitoring tasks more effectively and cost-efficiently.
🛸 The use of drones can contribute in many ways to increasing the effectiveness of monitoring, reducing costs and minimizing disturbance - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steffen-Doering.
Best regards!
Steffen
9 August 2024 12:58pm
Ah, and perhaps have a look at conservationdrone.org 😉
Human-wildlife conflicts junior consultancy
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Hi Heinrich, you are absolutely right about the need for long-endurance drone for such a mission on 250km^2.
Taking a full frame 35mm camera with a 35mm (wide angle) lens you would have a field of view of 123 metres x 83 metres (looking straight down, you want to be looking at an angle and doing this in high contrast lighting, preferably with the sun behind the camera).
If the area was a square 15.8km x15.8km you would need to do 16 km / 123m = 128 transects to cover the area which is 16km x 128 = 2,057km which if flying at 135 km (safe speed for game counting in a high wing Cessna 182) is 15.23 hours of flying.
Endurance and speed in commercially available drones - is what is stopping drones from realising their conservation potential.
Attached is initial (conservative) design performance details.
Contact me on +27 72 472 5318 and we can discuss this further.
31 July 2024 4:30pm
there is this one too:
31 July 2024 6:22pm
Great!!!
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You can catch up on the recording at that same link to the June Variety Hour! Lacey's fabulous talk starts around the 9:40 mark :)
12 July 2024 5:38am
Hi Talia!
I feel like the topic is so broad that it might help to put some constraints around things, see what works, and then broaden those out. I have a lot of ideas regarding the data monitoring and collection side based on the other sensor and observation networks we've set up in the past.
There may also be some potential scope to incorporate things like data collection and integrated monitoring to the Build Your Own Datalogger series where the system is updated to feed data into the observation network.
It'd probably take a bit of discussion and coordination. Let me know if interested. I'm fine to jump on a call or discuss via email too.
22 July 2024 9:24pm
@cmwainaina please take a look
Looking for literature materials/any useful data on HHC(Human-Hippopotamus Conflict) mitigation and coexistence.
12 June 2024 7:24pm
7 July 2024 10:07am
Hi loveness,
Your doing great here are some research that may be helpful on what your looking for
search for article of Human-Hippopotamus Conflict: Impacts and Mitigation Strategies published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
19 July 2024 1:56pm
Hey @Agripinacletus , thank you so much for your constructive input.
19 July 2024 1:57pm
Hi @nyangetamagesa , i'm so grateful for our input.
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To add to what Agriphina said, I think community engagement is the top-tier key, and engaging them effectively means first understanding the community you are working with i.e. their problems, needs, livelihoods, and their foreseen solutions. You can also engage the community through meetings and workshops. Mfano: Unaweza kuwashirikisha kwenye utengenezaji wa zile local tools kama chill blocks, just to make them have the feeling of benefit and improve that myth of fighting "alone".
You can also allow them to have their representatives, (leaders who will speak on their behalf), also, do your best to give back feedback and information to the community members, (do not only take information from them).
Side note: Working with communities may be different, one strategy may work for one community and the same strategy may not work for yours, it's important to understand your community and flow with what suits it while you engage them in what you think is helpful to them.
12 July 2024 1:26pm
To add to what Agriphina said, I think community engagement is the top-tier key, and engaging them effectively means first understanding the community you are working with i.e. their problems, needs, livelihoods, and their foreseen solutions. You can also engage the community through meetings and workshops. Mfano: Unaweza kuwashirikisha kwenye utengenezaji wa zile local tools kama chill blocks, just to make them have the feeling of benefit and improve that myth of fighting "alone".
You can also allow them to have their representatives, (leaders who will speak on their behalf), also, do your best to give back feedback and information to the community members, (do not only take information from them).
Side note: Working with communities may be different, one strategy may work for one community and the same strategy may not work for yours, it's important to understand your community and flow with what suits it while you engage them in what you think is helpful to them.
13 July 2024 1:18pm
Thank you so much Adventina for sharing this wonderfully knowledge with me.
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Hi Amit,
The most important thing is that the livestock owners contact you as soon as possible after finding the carcass. We commonly do two things if they contact us on the same day or just after the livestock was killed:
- Use CyberTracker (or similar software) on an Android smart phone to record all tracks, bite marks, feeding pattern and any other relevant signs of the reason for the loss with pictures and GPS coordinates. [BTW, Compensation is a big issue -- What do you do if the livestock was stolen? What do you do if a domestic animal killed the livestock? What if it died from disease or natural causes and was scavenged upon by carnivores afterwards?]
- In the case of most cats, they would hide the prey (or just mark it by covering it with grass or branches and urinating in the area). In this case you can put up a camera trap on the carcass to capture the animal when it returns to its kill (Reconyx is good if you can afford it - we use mostly Cuddeback with white flash). This will normally only work if the carcass is fresh (so other predators would not be able to smell it and not know where it is yet), so the camera only has to be up for 3-5 days max.
This is not really high-tech, but can be very useful to not only establish which predator was responsible (or if a predator was responsible), but also to record all the evidence for that.
13 June 2024 8:58pm
Hey Amit,
This is a great question; from our work, we've seen people do a couple of things. We've even seen people using Ring doorbell footage in urban areas as evidence.
The best thing we've seen is matching the community needs with existing infrastructure:
- Are there existing cameras you can leverage, like the doorbell cameras?
- Can public participation monitoring service this, i.e. public submitted photos and videos?
It also totally depends on the wildlife species you're working with, the interaction, damages, etc. If you've found any good solutions, let me know. I'd love to share that information with our clients here who have constant bear problems.
14 June 2024 9:09am
In that case, you might want to keep an eye on the project from @Lars_Holst_Hansen
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Bright Frog Game Studios is producing some really cool environmental education video games that more people should know about! I've gone ahead and added it as an organisation entry on the Inventory #Bright Frog Game Studios where you can edit and add more information, sharing more about the insightful games you've developed like Operation Ferdinand.
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Thank you Carly!
We have over 60 bats recorded in Zimbabwe
19 April 2024 2:16pm
Abigail. I would love to know more and potentially support the initiative. Please send me more info on [email protected]
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Thank you Robyn. Sure I will send more information to your email
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Sound deterrents to prevent collisions with Kangaroos in Australia have been sold for many years. None have been shown to work. Whether the Volkswagen device will be any better waits to be seen. Collision data will have to be collected for a while to see if the VW device has any effect on collision rate.
8 April 2024 12:49am
That is an interesting concept, and it would be great if something out there worked. In the meantime, I will try not to drive at dusk 🦘
At one point, I knew the "sonic" animal guards were the most stolen components of cars. You head in, get groceries, and come out, and they are gone. They weren't on the car long enough for me to confirm that would work
20 April 2024 2:40am
Totally agree.
Inititally sceptical until I saw Helena and Graeme were involved.
MJ
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@PaulAllin Thanks for your valuable insights. Zenmuse H20N seems to be very powerful and useful in this case. However, I'm looking for a more affordable option for a self-funded research.