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Meet the team

Hello we are Team Muscat! We're a group of passionate students committed to tackling environmental challenges, with a specific focus on addressing human-wildlife relationships🦎👫🐒.

As Singapore progresses towards becoming a City in Nature, urbanization intensifies interactions between people and wildlife, necessitating innovative solutions to ensure harmonious coexistence🍃. We thus hope to bridge the knowledge gap and empower Singaporeans to navigate human-wildlife interactions effectively!

Team members: Fun Jolie, Valerine Cheow, Liam Wells Ayathan, Seah Ying Ting

Problem statement

Studies by CITES have shown that every year, hundreds of humans and thousands of animals are injured due to human-wildlife conflicts.

With Singapore's mission of becoming a City in Nature, there is an increase in green spaces and nature corridors islandwide. While this enhances urban biodiversity and brings nature closer to residents, it also attracts wildlife into urban areas. This shift has led to an inevitable rise in human-wildlife interactions.

Members of the public often look to government agencies like NParks to help them resolve such issues. As such NParks receives minimally 10,000 emails annually. Responding to these queries swiftly is difficult, resulting in members of the public feeling lost in navigating these issues, which could lead to either animals or humans getting injured due to improper action being taken.

How can we then encourage appropriate reactions and actions from people when they encounter wildlife in their backyards by equipping them with the knowledge and assistance they need in light of such situations?

Proposed solution

Our solution will be centred on Telegram where we will create a chatbot which is able to connect members of the public with community wildlife experts when they encounter wild animals and require guidance in responding to human-wildife interactions.