bAWARE is revolutionary, being designed from the animal's point of view
We ring and tag wild animals, we attach telemetry to them to track and trace them.
On domestic animals, we also use dog collars and leashes, horse bridles etc.
What all these have in common is that humans, not animals, are the recipients of information, taking and implementing decisions.
bAWARE is fundamentally different, putting the animal first.
Why hasn't this been tried before?
- Traditional human-centric view
- The math inverts when human infrastructure grows exponentially while wildlife populations dwindle to a few specimen. bAWARE is a complementary solution, not the one and only solution, with inverted strengths and weaknesses.
- Technical difficulties
- General indifference
- Ethical concerns: "Automating" wild animals seems a dystopian thought
Ethics
We at bAWARE would largely prefer pristine nature taking care of itself.
But unfortunately, humans created a very different global reality. Only few natural sanctuaries like national parks remain, and oftentimes even they are too small for an ecosystem to function perfectly without any human intervention. This can start with a simple fence, and often reaches management on a specimen by specimen basis.
We carefully weigh the minimized, but unavoidable downsides like stress from capture and carrying our bAWARE devices, with the demonstrable life saving effects. Compared to constant mortal danger, the downsides are a small price to pay.