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Livestock 

Compensation payments for wolf depredation within 24 hours

12/01/202112/01/20214 days ago Julia Ramsauer 335 Views 0 Comments Livestock protection, Majella, Majella Wilderness, Wolf 2 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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Livestock 

Lack of livestock protection affects cross-border wolf packs

05/01/202114/01/20212 weeks ago Hanna Ollos 173 Views 0 Comments large carnivores, Livestock protection, slovakia 3 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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Livestock 

NGOs win appeal: Wolf in Salzburg safe

22/12/202022/12/20204 weeks ago Timothy Sung 493 Views 0 Comments Austria, Livestock protection, Wolf 3 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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Livestock 

First multilingual Alpine Livestock Protection and Press Conference

15/12/202016/12/20201 month ago Julia Ramsauer 300 Views 0 Comments Livestock protection 3 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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Livestock 

Adaption as remedy for wolf – farmer dilemma

12/11/202009/11/20202 months ago Julia Ramsauer 617 Views 0 Comments Livestock protection 4 min read

Change can come in our life as a result of crisis, a result of choice, or just by chance. But

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Livestock 

LIFEstockProtect: Giving a hand (or 10) to a sheep farmer in Tyrol

01/10/202001/10/20204 months ago Gintare Tamulyte 255 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Society, Livestock protection, volunteer 3 min read

For the newly approved project LIFEstockProtect, parts of our team supported by highly motivated volunteers spent almost three weeks in

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Livestock 

LIFEstockProtect has kicked off

30/09/202030/09/20204 months ago Jonas Sommer 375 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Society, Livestock protection 2 min read

LIFEstockProtect, the largest and most ambitious livestock protection project in the German-speaking region of the Alps, is off to a

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Livestock Project Updates 

Filming livestock protection in Austria and Italy

16/09/202005/10/20204 months ago Nick Huisman 526 Views 2 Comments Austria, Italy, Livestock protection, Wolf 2 min read

For the newly approved project LIFEstockProtect, our team is in the field this week with a German television crew in Tirol

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Livestock 

Project manager position BUND Naturschutz in Bayern available

14/08/202014/08/20205 months ago Nick Huisman 647 Views 0 Comments Livestock protection 2 min read

The organisation BUND Naturschutz in Bayern e.V. is one of our partners in the recently approved LIFEstockProtect project. They have

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Livestock Wildlife 

Our bias about livestock farming

17/07/202016/12/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 759 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, climate change, Livestock protection 4 min read

The Covid-19 outbreak laid many problems of this world bare. On one hand, it showed how much humans pressure wildlife

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Livestock Wilderness Policy 

EU agricultural policy ‘CAP’ fails to protect biodiversity

03/07/202001/07/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 874 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Europe 3 min read

Agricultural land covers 40% of the European Union. This means it is the most wide-spread land use in the EU

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Livestock Research 

New study proves wolves and livestock can peacefully coexist

18/05/202019/05/20208 months ago Jonas Sommer 3212 Views 2 Comments large carnivores, Livestock protection, Research, Wolf 1 min read

A new study by German, Australian and American researchers reviewed data from all over the world to determine whether wolves

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Livestock 

Dogs poisoned and people attacked for protecting livestock

29/04/202026/05/20209 months ago Nick Huisman 1931 Views 1 Comment Livestock protection 2 min read

Effective implementation of livestock protection measures reduce the human-wildlife conflicts. Especially between livestock owners and large carnivores like the wolf.

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Livestock 

Successful Dutch pilot with livestock guarding dogs

12/03/202012/03/202010 months ago Nick Huisman 2137 Views 0 Comments Livestock protection 2 min read

Back in 2018, the wolf resettled in The Netherlands. A year later, in 2019, the first wolf pack established itself

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Livestock 

LIFE project on livestock protection submitted

17/02/202010/08/202011 months ago Nick Huisman 1605 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

Since the wolf returned to the Alps, the human-wolf conflict increased in many rural regions. Especially livestock farmers and nature

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Livestock Wildlife 

Spanish court declares wolf hunting illegal

23/01/202002/04/202012 months ago Jonas Sommer 2149 Views 5 Comments Wolf 1 min read

A verdict of the High Court of Justice of the region Castilla y León, Spain overturns the 2016 – 2019

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Livestock 

International conference Livestock protection in the Alpine region

17/01/202013/04/20201 year ago Ziva Alif 1322 Views 0 Comments Livestock protection 1 min read

An exciting international conference Livestock protection in the Alpine region will took place between the 21st and 23rd of January

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Livestock 

Livestock protection works: a case study from Brandenburg

14/01/202006/11/20201 year ago Ziva Alif 1728 Views 2 Comments Germany, Livestock protection, Wolf 1 min read

Brandenburg, along with Saxony, are the states with the largest wolf density in Germany. At the moment, there are 49

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Livestock Wildlife 

Can European countries continue to kill the wolf?

03/01/202012/03/20201 year ago Jonas Sommer 2175 Views 2 Comments cull, Wolf 5 min read

After the European Court of Justice ruled on the Finnish wolf hunting quota, we ask: Can other European countries continue

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Livestock 

Finding solutions for future of alpine farming in Tschengls

18/12/201911/11/20201 year ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1255 Views 0 Comments Europe, Herd management, Wolf 2 min read

The future of the pasture farming is an uncertain one. During the citizen engagement activity we discussed it on Saturday in Tschengls.

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