System project on human wildlife conflict
In the recent past, there has been an increase in the number of attacks of humans by predators especially by juvenile cougars. The attacks majorly arise due to continued encroachment of their wildlife habitats, as a result, of increased settlements. The attacks are mainly found near national parks. In the process of these juvenile animals trying to establish their own territories and hunt for suitable preys, they end up in neighbourhoods leading to interaction with humans leading to attacks that are most of the time fatal. Defensive humans use guns to kill these juveniles.
Therefore, it is very important for a system to be put into place to regulate and monitor the movement of these juveniles’ animals within their habitat to avoid the interactions leading to attacks. This system helps warders to determine the specific location and position of the animals and furthermore, to help prevent the interactions and confrontations with human. It will as well monitor how active an animal is through determination of its activities. If an animal stays dormant for quite some time, it could signal sickness or even death.
This system will inquire various necessary components such as gps tracking devices that will have to be tagged to the animals, CCTV cameras along various points on the boundaries, this will be complemented with motion detectors that will help monitor the movement along the boundaries for both humans and the animals, a good system software that will be linked to the motion detectors, gps device as well as the CCTV. It will be integrated into the municipality’s interface as well as other relevant authorities such as animal control authorities. This integration will facilitate involvement with more authorities in the affected area.
It will require information about total cougar populations in a specific park, for example in Rocky Mountain National park which is one area with cases of cougar attacks. Information about areas along boundaries where they have habitats is also important. A project software is also necessary. It should be linked to the detectors, CCTV and the gps. It should be capable of redirecting necessary signals to the relevant authorities for immediate action. It has to be developed in house for specifications to be incorporated. The project, therefore, needs to lias with appropriate software developers to come up with effective software that will meet all the project’s specifications.
Other costs that would be incurred include training of the warders on the software use. This will cost 30,000 dollars that will be spent on hiring developers of the software to offer training and hiring of boardrooms for training sessions and this amount, together with the total one for the components, sum up to an estimated 170000 dollars.
The project will take an estimated eight months to complete. The first three months will be spent on the software development which will consume most of the time. Installation of the developed software will take three months to ensure it suits the project fully and it’s very functional. It will involve the software’s integration with the CCTV and motion detectors that are fixed along the parks boundary and gps that are tagged on the juvenile cougars. Immediately after installation warders will be trained on the reading and interpretation of signals in the system to enable effective response to the cropping situation and this will go for two months.
The project will involve participation of various support companies to see to its completion. This involves the Steve John`s security firm that will supply security equipment that include motion detectors, gps and cctv which are vital for the park cougar activities monitoring. This contract will be awarded to penguins Construction Company, since they have done other security related contracts in the past for our company and it was completed to our satisfaction.
