[hcfman]

Never fear. We have the technology to help people live with wolves.

https://wildlifesecurityinnovations.com/projects/wolves-belg...

With the most wolf videos here.

https://youtube.com/@hcftube1

We have a solar powered thermal local AI wolf detection system that’s been in a field in Belgium for more than 8 months now, monitoring the wolves there. Thermal image motion detection can detection them at much greater distances than PIR sensors and of course in complete darkness.

The biggest barrier at the moment to living with wolves, if you true away the human resistance to the idea, is reliable detection for early warning prevention.

This is not such a hard problem with computer vision at the level that it is these days. We’ve made it more effective by coupling it with thermal imaging camera modules.

Now we just need people willing to want to want to work with such pilot project, which turns out to be a pretty big problem.

However, it’s possible that a few influential success stories can bring change to the situation. But there has to be a start first and certainly when this started to be a problem, anything along the lines of prevention was seen as a barrier towards killing them which is what the solution in many people’s eyes is.

[Stevvo]

That is a glorified trail camera, really does very little to help people live with wolves. What does is a strict hunting quota; the government decides how many wolves there should be, rather than nature.

[hcfman]

There's the killing again.

And no, it's not a glorified trail camera. Very different.

Everyone wants to kill before trying measures to keep people and their animals apart.

I don't think you can say it does nothing to help people live with wolves because it's not being tried. It's not being tried, because people being convince the only thing that helps is killing everything that requires a bit of effort to live with. I realize it's very human to destroy and kill, but I think we should strive to do better.

Humans have already stolen so much from nature and the animals, don't you think a little effort to do better would be a good thing?

[dvt]

> There's the killing again.

Do you not understand how ecosystems work? Or how populations of predator/prey are in various (usually) oscillatory states?

> Humans have already stolen so much from nature and the animals

I'm confused, are you saying humans are somehow not part of nature?

[gonzalohm]

A lot of people are like that when dealing with nature. Oh I don't want squirrels in my backyard, let me put some poison...

We really don't deserve a place on this planet

[pocksuppet]

That's a fine attitude for squirrels which are ultimately harmless, but wolves can attack people, although that's somewhat rare, not like bears which attack you every time.

Wikipedia says wolves are more likely to attack humans if they've been living around humans for a while - they learn that humans are viable prey, not that humans are harmless.

[jltsiren]

Bear attacks depend on the (sub)species. European brown bears are very shy and much less likely to attack people than wolves.

Finnish people traditionally respected bears but were not afraid of them. Historical records mostly tell of two kinds of bear attacks. Either children / old people herding cattle in the forest accidentally got too close to a bear cub, or adult men were hunting bears and something went wrong.

[gonzalohm]

Climate change also kills people and we don't do anything about it

[micromacrofoot]

same with mosquitoes, let's just spray or fog and kill all the other bugs too... including ones that kill mosquitos

[nullstyle]

I’ll argue mozzies are responsible for more suffering than humans any day of the week. They need to go. Lets just get our targeting good enough.

[idiotsecant]

... What do you think wolves do all day?

[gbraad]

Cameras do not actively protect people or livestock, it just monitors and retroactively actions are taken. I prefer the German method where they make the wolves fear people.

https://youtu.be/hmVowVaWUms