Food is the invitation.
Bins, kitchens and gardens can become highly rewarding foraging sites.
Then the home becomes part of the range.
Keeping baboons out of urban spaces is difficult once they learn the rewards.
Baboons are intelligent, adaptable and capable of exploiting food and shelter in the urban environment. Residents can face serious disruption and property damage.
What if we could manage where they go?
BoonFence proposes a dynamic boundary between wild habitat and urban areas, using existing technologies in a new wildlife-management application.
Keep troops away from homes, businesses and other high-conflict urban areas.
Support management that aims to keep baboons in natural habitat rather than habituating them to people.
Give authorised wildlife managers a digital tool that can adapt as conditions change.