Carnivore Damage Prevention News

• LIFE DINALP BEAR: a project to increase tolerance toward bears through conflict mitigation and the development of a population management approach
• COMPARISON OF THE OCCURRENCE OF HUMAN-BEAR CONFLICTS between the northern Dinaric Mountains and the south-eastern Alps
• HOW TO PREVENT DAMAGES FROM BEARS ON BEEHIVES: the practice of the Swiss system
• PILOT PROJECT ON WASTE MANAGEMENT AND BROWN BEAR DAMAGE PREVENTION in the Val Müstair Biosphere Natural Park
• EFFECTIVENESS OF BROWN BEAR DAMAGE PROTECTION MEASURES to protect apiaries in the Cantabrian Mountains
• ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF ELECTRIC FENCES to prevent bear damage in Italy
• RESULTS OF THE LIFE ARCTOS/KASTORIA PROJECT
• BEAR MANAGEMENT: the case of a bear attack on human in Trentino, Italy
• DEFINING, PREVENTING AND REACTING to problem bear behaviour in Europe

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• Dialogue to reduce conflicts
• Are wolverines doomed to live in eternal conflict?
• How can an inexperienced person performing civilian service support farmers to protect livestock...
• Herd protection in the northwestern Swiss Prealps 2009-2013
• Sheep farming in France: facing the return of the wolf
• Eurasian lynx depredation on sheep in Norway: summarizing 20 years of research
• People and jaguars coexistence project: understanding and increasing tolerance to big cats in Brazil

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• Med-Wolf - A new project to decrease man-wolf conflicts in Mediterranean-type areas
• Recovering traditional husbandry practices to reduce wolf predation on free-ranging cattle in Iberia
• Management and conservation of wolves in Asturias, NW Spain - Is population control justified...
• Sheep pastures in the Valais - Sustainability, management structures
• Alternatives to livestock guarding dogs - Llamas, donkeys, fence-systems and aversive conditioning...
• The CanOvis project - Studying internal and external factors that may influence livestock guarding dogs’ efficiency...
• Livestock guarding dogs in Europe - paying attention to the context is important...
• An innovative approach to mitigate the conflict between large carnivore conservation and local communities
• Use of dogs in the mediation of conservation conflicts

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• Livestock Guarding Dogs: from the Transhumance to Pre-Zygotic Selection
• What is Wrong with Romanian Livestock Guarding Dogs?
• The Karakachan Dog – Continuation of an Old Bulgarian Tradition
• Providing Livestock Guarding Dogs and Compensation of Livestock Losses Caused by Large Carnivores in Bulgaria
• Livestock Guardian Dogs Protect Sheep in the Alberta Foothills, Canada
• The Use of Livestock Guarding Dogs in Portugal
• Briefing on the Re-Introduction of LGDs in Catalonia (Spain)
• The Institutionalisation of Livestock Protection in the Alps with respect to the Small Scale Agriculture of Switzerland
• Experiences with the Maremmano-Abruzzese as a Livestock Guarding Dog in Switzerland

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• Use of livestock guarding dogs in Norway – a review of the effectiveness of different methods
• Livestock Guarding Dogs in Sweden: a Preliminary Report
• Use of Tatra Mountain Shepherd Dog in the Bieszczady Mountains
• Livestock Guarding Dogs in the Western Part of the Polish Carpathians
• Livestock Depredation and Livestock Guarding Dogs in Slovakia
• Using Livestock Guarding Dogs as a Conflict Resolution Strategy on Namibian Farms
• Livestock Guard Dogs and Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States
• Livestock guarding dogs: a new experience for Switzerland

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• Recovering the Use of Livestock Guarding Dogs in Portugal: Results of a Long-Term Action
• Influence of Large Carnivores on the Distribution of Excreta by Sheep on a summer pasture, in the NW-Italian Alps
• King Collar: Predator Protection Collars for Small Livestock
• Bringing Insight into Livestock Depredation by Wolves in Southwestern Alberta, Canada
• Reduced Wolf Attacks on Sheep in Ostfold, Norway, using Electric Fencing
• A Simple Carnivore Improvement of Existing Sheep Fencing

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• Compensation and predator conservation: limitations of compensation
• Wolf damage compensation in Spain
• Snow leopards and local livelihoods: managing the emerging conflicts through an insurance scheme
• Compensation for large carnivore depredation of domestic sheep 1994-2001
• Saving the Central Asian leopard in Turkmenistan
• South African cheetah compensation fund
• A short-lived wolf depredation compensation program in Israel
• Life Starter Project. Call for opinions

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• Testing and Implementing the Use of Electric Fences for Night Corrals in Romania
• How to Prevent Damage from Large Predators with Electric Fences
• Electric Fencing for Predator Protection in Alberta
• Electric Fencing and Carnivore Damage Prevention
• Operation of Electric Fences: Some Practical Advise
• Fence Systems and Testing of Grounding Systems: Some Practical Advice

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• Encouraging Local Participation in Efforts to Reduce Livestock Depredation by Snow Leopard and Wolf in Ladakh, India
• Factors Influencing Lynx Depredation on Sheep in France: Problem Individuals and Habitat
• Procedure to Selectively Remove Stock Raiding Lynx in Switzerland
• Experiences of 10 Years of Damage Prevention for Brown Bears in Austria
• Carnivore Damage to Livestock in Romania
• Statistics of Damage Caused by Large Carnivore in Europe

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• Managing wolf conflict with livestock in the Northwestern United States
• Compensation for livestock kills by tigers and leopards in Russia
• Electric fencing of fallow deers enclosures in Switzerland – a predator proof method
• Man-eating leopards - status and ecology of leopard in Pauri Garhwal, India
• Abstracts of the 19th Vertebrate Pest Conference, San Diego 6-9 March 2000

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• Experimental Application of Conditioned Taste Aversion (CTA) to Large Carnivores
• Taste aversive conditioning: a comment
• Problems in damage prevention in Romania
• Electrical fences against large predators
• Donkeys protecting livestock in Namibia
• Wolf return in Switzerland: a project to solve conflicts
• Who did it? Age and sex specific depredation rates of Eurasian lynx on domestic sheep

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• Education of Wildlife Damage Inspectors in Sweden
• Preventing Wolf Predation on Livestock with Light-Mobile Barriers
• Electric Fences and Fladries in Romania
• Norwegian Brown Bears: Holders of an Unwanted World Record
• Large Carnivore Damage in Spain
• Testing Livestock Guard Donkeys in the Swiss Alps
• Should Life condition all co-financing of compensation systems to the use of preventive methods?
• The Recovery of Livestock Guarding Dogs’ use and the Iberian Wolf Conservation in Portugal - Promising results

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