What is Encosh ?
A platform for exchange to support stakeholders involved in human-wildlife coexistence challenges.
A collaborative tool built by an interdisciplinary team.
An international network of diverse local actors.
A project to strengthen your capacity for action.
initiatives
Coping with human-wildlife interactions (e.g food protection, human safety and well-being; wildlife preservation) is a complex and urgent issue. It requires to combine and adapt locally diverse and complementary initiatives. Examples of toolbox and a search system are available below to help you creating your own toolbox to better tackle human-wildlife conflict and coexistence issues locally. It is important to note that some initiatives are very specific to a wildlife species and a context while others can be widely adapted.
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Natural physical barriers made up of cacti and sisal have been tested in Mozambique to keep elephants away from agricultural plots, but few scientific publications exist on their effectiveness.
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An insurance scheme has been created through partners (EU) support and also with the villagers subscribing to the insurance with 2500FCFA/per hectare/year (4$/hectare/year) to insured their fields. Then during the devastation, the policyholders notify the park managers in order t...
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A low-cost and open source system that helps to early detect and alert people about the presence of large mammals.
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Wildlife Friendly™ certification is a global program providing best practice guidelines for farming, ranching, and other enterprises who seek to generate sustainable livelihoods while protecting key species of biodiversity. Our certification programs, also including species-fo...
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A simple user-friendly mobile phone system to help villagers near two Indian national parks report crop and livestock damages to authorities and receive appropriate compensation.
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A telecommunication technology to which a variety of sensors can be linked that detect animal presence and power leaks in electric fences that are currently used to keep out herbivorous.
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When breeders have to deal with depredation of Jaguar or Puma upon their livestock, they have the opportunity to become a "pilot farm" and thus freely set up a non-lethal measure. Both the project leader and the breeder choose together which measure seem to be relevant and adapte...
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The Livestock Guarding Dog Program (LGD Program) was initiated in 1996, in the scope of the wolf conservation strategy established by Grupo Lobo, and has been running since. Its main goal is to promote the recovery of autochthonous breeds of livestock guarding dogs as an effectiv...
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The Kangal or Anatolian Shepherd is a breed of dog of Turkish origin. It has been used for thousands of years as a guard dog during the transhumance of cattle. It is a muscular, powerful race, with a large head and a robust body. The male measures between 80 and 100 cm at the wit...
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To support pastoralists and shepherds and give them the keys to successfully introduce a livestock guarding dog into their herd and its use on a daily basis, a national technical network on dogs has been set up.
Its objective is to disseminate knowledge and know-how in the...
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Enclosure made with few stakes and nets (the same ones used for livestock), a wooden pallet to make the entrance of the enclosure, and garbage cans and ropes that respectively serve as self-feeding food reserve for livestock guarding dogs. An initiative to reduce the time spent b...
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Peppi and Marko Laine are sheep farmers from Salo, Finland. Over the past years the sightings of wolves has increased from only a few to almost a hundred. Last year two of their lambs were killed by wolves. Now they are testing if llamas would be suitable guardians for their shee...
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The Association VIE carries the applied research project entitled "The Patou does not do all" on the links that exist between social and spatial behaviors of livestock guarding dogs. The purpose of this participatory study is, among other things, to highlight elements that may he...
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The ultimate objective of this program is to improve the "quality" of livestock guarding dogs (selection, education, behavior), to identify the parameters and situations that influence their effectiveness in protection (pastoral practices, equipment, use of space …) and thus he...
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Enjoy quick and easy access to all the initiatives on the platform, and download or print technical sheets to facilitate your work.
Comment on initiatives and ask your questions directly to project leaders to engage and get answers tailored to your needs.
Create and customize your own “toolbox” by selecting different initiatives to better manage human-wildlife interactions at the local level.
Engage and collaborate with the international community through a dedicated forum, share your initiatives, and benefit from the experience and feedback of other members.
