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

Great!!!

@cmwainaina please take a look

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.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu-sn&sca_esv=23430e1df8f38b82&channel=fs&q=Assessing+Human-Wildlife+Conflict+with+Hippopotamuses+in+the+Context+of+Wildlife+Conservation+from+the+African+Journal+of+Ecology.&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigkNqHx5SHAxXi0gIHHaOBA-EQgwN6BAgFEAE

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. 

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. 

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:

1. 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?]
2. 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.

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. 

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.

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