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Herd management

Livestock 

Natural vs. man-managed grazing. Part 2

October 25, 2022October 24, 20225 months ago Iryna Shchoka 340 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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Livestock 

 Natural vs. man-managed grazing. Part 1

October 24, 2022October 24, 20225 months ago Iryna Shchoka 357 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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Join now: Livestock protection courses, excursions and online events now open for registration

August 3, 2022October 18, 20228 months ago Nathalie Harms 962 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

Starting at the end of August, the popular events of the LIFEstockProtect project will take place again. During field trips,

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Livestock 

Herd management is more effective than killing wolves

November 25, 2020March 1, 20232 years ago Nick Huisman 7050 Views 2 Comments 4 min read

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

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Livestock 

Finding solutions for future of alpine farming in Tschengls

December 18, 2019August 19, 20213 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2991 Views 0 Comments 7 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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Livestock Wilderness Network News 

Support livestock protection in the Alps!

December 11, 2019April 13, 20203 years ago Nick Huisman 3606 Views 1 Comment 3 min read

The natural return of large predators to the Alpine region is putting many livestock farmers under pressure. In response to

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Unique livestock protection LIFE project submitted

June 25, 2019December 10, 20194 years ago Nick Huisman 3799 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

UPDATE: The project has been invited to submit a Full Proposal by February 2020. As we know, the return of

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Livestock 

Livestock protection and management info day

June 20, 2019May 11, 20204 years ago Nick Huisman 3625 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

BIO AUSTRIA Lower Austria and Vienna organised together with international experts and the European Wilderness Society a ‘Livestock protection and

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Livestock 

Shock collaring wild wolves to solve livestock protection?

April 5, 2019April 18, 20204 years ago Nick Huisman 4157 Views 1 Comment 3 min read

April 1, The depredation of livestock by wolves is increasingly becoming an issue, especially to the thousands of small sheep

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Wilderness Policy 

Wolf-free zones will not work, here’s why

March 11, 2019April 14, 20204 years ago Nick Huisman 4211 Views 3 Comments 5 min read

With the wolf population steadily growing in Europe, wolves are expanding again to new territories. As wolves can easily travel

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Livestock 

No compensation without livestock protection measures

March 1, 2019January 29, 20204 years ago Hanna Ollos 3845 Views 1 Comment 5 min read

The provincial government of Schleswig-Holstein recently decided to only pay compensation for lifestock losses if proper herd protection measures where

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Livestock 

Local solutions to large carnivores in Europe

January 11, 2019January 29, 20204 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 8044 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

EuroLargeCarnivores, a LIFE project which provides space for people to share knowledge and experiences about large carnivore coexistence, has made

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Livestock 

Livestock herding in the Asturian Mountains, Spain

December 11, 2018January 29, 20204 years ago Nick Huisman 5128 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

The Spanish Asturias is a region with a complex mountainous terrain. A landscape of almost inaccessible mountains and deep valleys,

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Livestock 

EU: Costs for livestock protection and damages can now be fully compensated

November 12, 2018January 29, 20204 years ago Nick Huisman 4444 Views 6 Comments 1 min read

The European Commission has decided that farmers and livestock owners can now receive full compensation for investments and damages. More

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The return of the Golden Jackal
Wildlife 

Golden jackals eat what they find

November 6, 2018October 30, 20184 years ago Hanna Ollos 3972 Views 1 Comment 3 min read

International experts and scientists recently discussed the latest international developments on the golden jackal during the second international Jackal Symposium in Greece.

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Livestock 

European Perspectives: Livestock protection is the key

November 1, 2018January 29, 20204 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3437 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

On 18th September 2018, the European Wilderness Society participated in the workshop of the EU Platform on Coexistence between People and

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Livestock 

Finnish wolves suffering from culling and poaching caused by human fear

October 15, 2018April 13, 20204 years ago Nick Huisman 16273 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

The wolf is a native species of Finland, but humans hunted it almost to extinction in the 1970’s. After it

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Livestock 

Mehr Wölfe weniger Schäden: Großer Erfolg für Herdenschutz in Deutschland

October 10, 2018January 29, 20204 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 9845 Views 2 Comments 6 min read

Das Wolfmonitoring der Landesjägerschaft von Niedersachsen hat vergangenen Monat neue Daten zur Wolfspopulation und den damit zusammenhängenden Schäden veröffentlicht. Die

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Learning to track wolves in Germany

October 9, 2018December 12, 20184 years ago Nick Huisman 4830 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

International cooperation is crucial when it comes to coexistence with wolves. Germany has been a permanent home for wolves about

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Livestock 

More Wolves, less killed sheep: Big success for livestock protection in Germany

October 5, 2018January 27, 20224 years ago Nick Huisman 9681 Views 1 Comment 7 min read

Last month, the German province of Lower Saxony published new data on the wolf population and damages. The results indicate

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