Livestock Archives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Herd management is more effective than killing wolves

What many conservationists expected is now confirmed: killing wolves does not effectively reduce livestock depredation. On the contrary, various methods