Animal Allies Project

Okay!  We had a good first meeting, got to know some of the new team members, and started discussing project ideas.  But, we can't stop there.

As a reminder to everyone, we need (as a team) to come up with a condition in which the lives of animals and humans intersect, determine a problem that arises from that intersection, and come up with an imaginative solution.  We started some discussion at the last meeting, which I have summarized below:

Roadkill -- Animals interact in human developments, get hit by cars, and decay on the road.

• Chips in the animals
• Walls and cushions around the tires

Zoo -- Humans feed zoo animals food that isn’t good for them

• Glass domes
• Have proper food available

Deforestation -- Humans take land to build buildings and farms, take habitat away from animals

• Make more national parks, protected habitats

Overfishing -- Humans reduce fish stocks, fish aren't replaced.

• Designated fishing zones
• Thermal imaging satellites to detect poaching

Poop ('nuff said)

Birds fly into wind turbines

• Machine/something on turbine to scare away birds.

Hunting -- for sport

Pollution -- humans generate pollution, kill animals.

• Scrubbers for vehicles to reduce pollution

Mosquitos -- mosquitos spread various deadly diseases to humans like Zika, West Nile, Swine Flu, Malaria, etc.

• Gate that zaps or sprays bug spray
• Super repellent
• Super bug killer

Oil spills/Leaks -- destroy habitat

• Stop drilling in the ocean
• Put concrete buildings around the drills to contain the oil

Chemicals in Tar

 These are just a few ideas; I'm sure you can come up with several more, so feel free to add them to the comments and bring them to the next meeting.  Also, if you have some imaginative solution to any of these problems, let's start collecting those as well!