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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Hello all! There's going to be a workshop led by Human Wildlife Conflict Collaboration on the fundamentals of HWC. It will... |
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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... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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Hi all, Just saw this on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38288999 Dogs in one town... |
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@Suzanne.Stone have you had any success with your trials in Idaho? |
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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/... |
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Hi all, I thought I'd alert you to this recent journal article, which looked at all published research on predator... |
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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 |
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Hello all, Another thought I had regarding human-wildlife conflict. Since wildlife migrations occur around similar times, every year,... |
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