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Grazing in the Alps

December 22, 2022December 21, 20221 month ago Vlado Vancura 117 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

Natural grazing in the Alps In the past, natural grazing, better said browsing in the Alps was dominantly done by animals

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Livestock and predators in Europe

November 22, 2022January 18, 20232 months ago Vlado Vancura 382 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

Challenge to maintain population of herbivores in Europe Europe has faced a challenging situation with overgrazing for several centuries. The result is a development of over-population of native herbivores such as

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Natural vs. man-managed grazing. Part 2

October 25, 2022October 24, 20223 months ago Iryna Shchoka 229 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

The situation when the natural grazing was only way of grazing has dramatically changed, when human pop-up on the scene. His

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 Natural vs. man-managed grazing. Part 1

October 24, 2022October 24, 20223 months ago Iryna Shchoka 239 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

Grazing is a very complex subject discussed already several decades. There are a number of ecological effects derived from grazing

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Register for online livestock protection conference in Bavaria

October 19, 2022October 31, 20224 months ago Victoria Steckhan 265 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

Note: Due to water damage at the facilities, this event has been moved online The discussion around livestock protection is

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Conservation Grazing Events

August 5, 2022September 14, 20226 months ago Nathalie Harms 352 Views 0 Comments 13 min read

The number of grazing animals released in protected areas has increased significantly in recent years. These grazing animals are often

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Shepherd volunteers wanted for summer!

April 26, 2022April 26, 20229 months ago Victoria Steckhan 595 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

How would you like to spend this summer volunteering with shepherds in the Alps? LIFEstockProtect is looking for volunteers to

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A milestone for wildlife coexistence – livestock protection courses starting this spring

March 29, 2022November 29, 202210 months ago Victoria Steckhan 643 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

After much work from the partners of LIFEstockProtect, the project’s livestock protection courses are beginning this spring! As the first

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Livestock protection in Bavaria – Online event in German

February 22, 2022October 18, 202212 months ago Nathalie Harms 669 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

In this online event on 8 March, 20 – 22 CET, Bioland and the LIFEstockProtect team provide an interesting insight

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A new bill to protect herding and livestock guarding dogs in Italy

December 10, 2021December 13, 20211 year ago Damiano Cilio 937 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

A law proposal, consisting of 17 articles, designed to safeguard shepherds, herding and livestock guarding dogs and the territory, was

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The EU takes Spain to court over pollution from industrial farming

December 9, 2021September 20, 20221 year ago Julia Ramsauer 898 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

The European Commission came to the conclusion that Spanish authorities have not done enough to protect water from nitrate pollution. Just in Summer 2021, another ecological

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Conference: Shepherdesses in the Alps

October 12, 2021October 18, 20221 year ago Julia Ramsauer 998 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

What is it like to spend the whole summer in the mountains with your flock of animals? Why is it

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Let’s not talk about the wolf on International Wolf Day

August 13, 2021August 12, 20211 year ago Julia Ramsauer 1296 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

The wolf-human conflict has been going on for decades if not centuries. All over the world, the issue has evolved

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Alpine LIFEstockProtect Competence Centre Network starting soon

May 3, 2021April 27, 20212 years ago Julia Ramsauer 1326 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Livestock protection in the Alps is a mostly forgotten practice since large predators vanished from the region. However, as large

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What makes livestock guarding dogs effective?

March 10, 2021April 13, 20212 years ago Julia Ramsauer 1944 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

As their name says, livestock guarding dogs protect livestock from predators like the wolf. They live together with the animals

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500+ attendees at Livestock Protection Conference

January 27, 2021October 19, 20222 years ago Julia Ramsauer 2053 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

On the 26th of January the first multilingual Alpine Livestock Protection conference took place online. This conference was the official

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Compensation payments for wolf depredation within 24 hours

January 12, 2021January 12, 20212 years ago Julia Ramsauer 2037 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

Majella National Park is one of the most impressive, wild and extensive mountain ranges of the Apennines. It is also

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Lack of livestock protection affects cross-border wolf packs

January 5, 2021January 14, 20212 years ago Hanna Ollos 1670 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

In October, following a long but seemingly successful petition by 31 Slovak organisations, the Ministry of Agriculture went against the

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NGOs win appeal: Wolf in Salzburg safe

December 22, 2020December 22, 20202 years ago Timothy Sung 2080 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

After an appeal from WWF Austria and the Naturschutzbund Austria, it was decided that approval given for shooting a wolf

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First multilingual Alpine Livestock Protection and Press Conference

December 15, 2020August 16, 20212 years ago Julia Ramsauer 2004 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Implementing effective livestock protection measures is key to reduce conflicts between humans and large carnivores. Large carnivores like the wolf

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