Shepherds View of Large Carnivore Recovery in the Pyrenees, Spain
The studied farms are small family businesses, and so, in more than half of the cases, their continuity is not guaranteed. Livestock management is typical of a mountain system, in which the animals graze throughout the year in cultivated fields, sown meadows, forests near the farms, and mountain pas...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2076-2615/13/13/2088/ 2023-08-20T04:05:45+02:00 Shepherds View of Large Carnivore Recovery in the Pyrenees, Spain José Ballarín Alicia García-Serrano Juan Herrero Ramón Reiné agris 2023-06-23 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13132088 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Animal System and Management https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13132088 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Animals; Volume 13; Issue 13; Pages: 2088 extensive sheep farming mountain pastures brown bear wolf Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13132088 2023-08-01T10:35:33Z The studied farms are small family businesses, and so, in more than half of the cases, their continuity is not guaranteed. Livestock management is typical of a mountain system, in which the animals graze throughout the year in cultivated fields, sown meadows, forests near the farms, and mountain pastures during the three summer months. The herds always have the constant surveillance of a shepherd. Farmers consider the current infrastructure present in mountain grasslands insufficient to facilitate the management and care of their herd. Their activity conflicts with various species of wildlife, such as the wild boar, Sus scrofa, roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, or griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and large carnivores such as the brown bear, Ursusarctos, or the grey wolf Canis lupus, despite all of them taking preventive measures to defend their herds from predators. The most widely used prevention measures are the presence of mastiff dogs, Canis lupus familiaris, next to the herds and the use of electric fencing to lock up livestock at night. Farmers reject the presence of bears and wolves in their area, considering it a real threat to the continuity of their economic activity, which presents a high degree of vulnerability. Text Canis lupus MDPI Open Access Publishing Animals 13 13 2088 |
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The studied farms are small family businesses, and so, in more than half of the cases, their continuity is not guaranteed. Livestock management is typical of a mountain system, in which the animals graze throughout the year in cultivated fields, sown meadows, forests near the farms, and mountain pastures during the three summer months. The herds always have the constant surveillance of a shepherd. Farmers consider the current infrastructure present in mountain grasslands insufficient to facilitate the management and care of their herd. Their activity conflicts with various species of wildlife, such as the wild boar, Sus scrofa, roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, or griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and large carnivores such as the brown bear, Ursusarctos, or the grey wolf Canis lupus, despite all of them taking preventive measures to defend their herds from predators. The most widely used prevention measures are the presence of mastiff dogs, Canis lupus familiaris, next to the herds and the use of electric fencing to lock up livestock at night. Farmers reject the presence of bears and wolves in their area, considering it a real threat to the continuity of their economic activity, which presents a high degree of vulnerability. |
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