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8 junio 2022
¡Imperdible – 15 de junio – Presentación de la plataforma ENCOSH!
news
5 mayo 2022
400 membres !
Nous y sommes, 400 membres d’une cinquantaine de pays du monde réunis autour de la plateforme ENCOSH pour partager et échanger sur les enjeux et solutions de coexistence Homme-Faune sauvage ! Il est encore temps de nous rejoindre !
L’équipe ENCOSH
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22 marzo 2022
Llamas como pastores de ovejas
Peppi y Marko Laine son criadores de ovejas de Salo, Finlandia. En los últimos años, los avistamientos de lobos han aumentado de unos pocos a casi un centenar. El año pasado, dos de sus corderos fueron asesinados por lobos. Ahora están probando si las llamas serían los guard...
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21 marzo 2022
Eco-tourisme Ballades à cheval
Il y a 16 ans, Pedro et Ana ont décidé de déménager à Castro Labeiro, où vivent de nombreux loups au Portugal. Ils n'ont jamais regretté cette décision - aujourd'hui, ils ont une entreprise d'écotourisme et offrent aux visiteurs une expérience unique en montant à cheva...
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5 marzo 2022
Human Elephant Conflict
HWC toolkit was developed to help communities adjacent to protected area. The toolkit contained a combination of Torch, Horn, Fire cracker and Roman candle. The toolkit is used sequentially. More than 1200 individual were trained within Tarangire - manyara ecosystem and Kilimanja...
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1 febrero 2022
Human elephant toolkit
Honeyguide HEC Prevention Methodology
Working with community youth volunteers and wildlife scouts, Honeyguide developed a Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) Toolkit that uses a sequential order of methods to prevent crop destruction. The objective of the HEC Toolkit is to cause eleph...
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event
25 enero 2022
Learning in Practice Webinar Series
The FAO-IUCN SSC HWC Task Force webinar series provides an opportunity to link theory of principles in HWC management with practical experience and insights from projects on the ground. This […]
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news
21 enero 2022
Happy New Year!
The ENCOSH team wish you all the best for 2022! We are starting 2022 with 348 members from 42 countries and 95 initiatives available! Let’s keep up this work to learn from each other!
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1 diciembre 2021
Living in the Sloth bear Landscape- An information booklet for locals
The booklet consist of 22 pages and provides information on diet, breeding and habits of the bears along with do's and don'ts also signs of sloth bear presence. This will help replace myths from the facts about the bears and make them tolerant with the sloth bear presence.
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12 octubre 2021
Rethinking aversion conditioning to reduce conflicts of interest between pastoralism and wolf conservation
We aim to test two new non-lethal methods to prevent sheep predation by wolves.
One method consists in a lightweight cover made of fabric stripes impregnated with a concentrated chili pepper extract and hanging around the sheep: a "defence harness". The harness should not impact...
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14 julio 2021
Experiencias de una ganadera en el uso de medidas alternativas al control letal
Intervengo en numerosos eventos sobre la ganadería en entornos con depredadores. En ellos, comparto mis experiencias y también información sobre algunas de las herramientas que utilizo en mi explotación para reducir el riesgo de interacciones conflictivas con esos animales. S...
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Red técnica francesa de perros guardianes de ganado
Se ha creado una red técnica a nivel nacional sobre perros de guarda con el fin de asesorar a ganaderos y pastores, y de darles consejos para introducir con éxito uno de estos perros en su rebaño y utilizarlo a diario.
El objetivo de esta red es difundir las experiencias y lo...
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Catcrafts: Artesanía con forma de gato para apoyar la conservación del gato andino
Nuestro objetivo es adoptar la artesanía como una herramienta creativa y una iniciativa de subsistencia, de forma que permita a la Alianza Gato Andino (AGA) apoyar la conservación de la vida silvestre —en particular, la del gato andino— mediante un mayor compromiso de la po...
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Capacitación del personal de primera línea del Departamento Forestal para la “investigación de la fauna silvestre mediante técnicas forenses”
La formación se basa en capacitar al personal de primera línea para investigar la fauna silvestre de forma precisa. La recogida de muestras es la clave de la investigación forense, […]
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Vallas electrificadas disuasorias para proteger al ganado de los osos
En abril de 2019, Coexisting with Carnivores Alliance y Jeff Marley, un empresario local, ayudaron a instalar vallas electrificadas en una explotación ganadera que había perdido varias ovejas en los últimos años en Metchosin, en la Columbia Británica (Canadá). Para entender...
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PastoraLoup: Supervisión por parte de voluntarios
Se trata de un programa de ayuda para las zonas de pastoreo de FERUS, una asociación dedicada a la conservación de grandes depredadores en Francia.
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Por una coexistencia en armonía entre los seres humanos y la vida silvestre
Esta iniciativa de divulgación de la conservación tenía como público diana a las personas que viven en la zona tampón de la Reserva natural estricta de Jigme Khesar y se centró en la interacción entre los seres humanos y la vida silvestre, en la conservación significativa...
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Medidas de prevención de daños a través del Programa de Desarrollo Rural griego
Con el fin de facilitar la sostenibilidad a largo plazo de la medida, las ONG ecologistas griegas iniciaron un amplio proceso de consulta y negociación con las autoridades nacionales competentes ―principalmente el Ministerio de Desarrollo Rural y Alimentación― para consegui...
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Programa «Cão de Gado», Portugal
El Programa «Cão de Gado» (Perro Guardián del Ganado) se puso en marcha en 1996 como parte de la estrategia de conservación del lobo establecida por el Grupo Lobo y ha estado funcionando desde entonces. Su objetivo principal es fomentar la recuperación de razas autóctonas ...
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Modelo de estancia sostenible Cerro Guido
Este proyecto trata de lograr la coexistencia entre la actividad ganadera y la vida silvestre de la zona.
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Detonador lapicero
Se ponen a disposición de cada unidad pastoral 2 detonadores lapiceros. Utilización durante un periodo de 15 días, renovable. Número limitado de cartuchos
El detonador lapicero se ha utilizado al menos dos veces. El dispositivo se usó cuando el pastor percibió el pánico d...
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Certificación Wildlife Friendly™ y certificaciones de especies específicas para productos y turismo
La certificación Wildlife Friendly™ es un programa mundial que ofrece guías de buenas prácticas para empresas agrícolas, ganaderas y de otros tipos que buscan crear medios de vida sostenibles a la vez que protegen a especies clave de la biodiversidad. Nuestros programas de ...
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event
27 noviembre 2020
Webinar Conservation Conflict Transformation
Are you working in a complex, conflict-rich conservation world? If you’ve been curious to learn a bit about Conservation Conflict Transformation (CCT) but haven’t been able to join one of […]
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event
16 septiembre 2020
Webinaire : Les abeilles peuvent-elles aider à apporter la paix entre les Hommes et les Éléphants ?
Vous êtes invité à participer à un webinaire le 18 septembre, organisé par la Future of Nature Academy et le projet Dragonfly de l’Université de Miami, au cours duquel un […]
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event
10 junio 2020
Webinar ENCOSH
Invitation à ce Webinar organisé par WildHub pour présenter la plate-forme ENCOSH : https://wildhub.community/users/388920-louisa-richmond-coggan/posts/wildhub-festival-2020-event-conservation-tools-new-platforms-technologies Enregistrez-vous via le lien ci-dessus.
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event
17 febrero 2020
Conférence Internationale Coexistence & Conflit Homme – Faune sauvage
Sélection pour présenter ENCOSH à la conférence internationale “Coexistence et Conflit Homme – Faune sauvage” à Oxford du 1er au 3 avril 2020 à Oxford : https://www.hwcconference.org/
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event
11 octubre 2019
Article ENCOSH
Publication d’un article sur le projet ENCOSH dans le Journal Trimestriel de “Carnivore Damage Prevention News”: http://www.protectiondestroupeaux.ch/fileadmin/doc/International/CDP_and_General_Infos/Issue18_E_web_low.pdf
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20 septiembre 2019
Contribution Journée d’échange Moyens de protection
Contribution à une journée d’échange technique dans le Parc National du Vercors (Sud Est France), organisée par l’association V.I.E, pour échanger des partages de savoirs et d’expériences sur les moyens […]
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19 julio 2019
Anti-Jaguar electric fence
Electric fence with an optimal design to prevent jaguar and puma to access livestock
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Early detection system
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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Community patrol
Voluntary groups to mitigate human-wildlife conflicts. the group were established to mitigate the conflict and also to inform the government if the conflict happens in their area. if there is no conflict the group acts as government volunteer for spreading news or making conser...
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Wireless sensor system
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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Nite guard© solar light
An intricate lighting system on homesteads to deter predators from attacking livestock at night. This light can be set up around the area to protect but also directly around the neck of livestock to protect from predators.
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Livestock repusilve collar
Livestock collar that triggers a light and ultrasound signals when a predator gets close.
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Livestock virtual fencing
The system consists of a solar-powered GPS collar and a digital map. When an animal crosses the Nofence boundary the collar starts beeping. This warns the animal that a short electric shock will be sent from the collar if the animal continues to move in the same direction. The an...
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Emergency Response Team
A trained Emergency Response (ER) team consisting of an officer not below the rank of Assistant Conservator of Forests, one qualified veterinarian, and a minimum of five trained support staff may be formed in the identified conflict area
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User-friendly mobile phone
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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Safe Sheep Initiative
Initiative to promote extensive use of non-lethal protective measures in Lithuania
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Decision modelling approach
A step-wise decision support tool whose aim is to evaluate management options based on multiple objectives
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Insurance-based conservation system
Insurance to offset other costs related to depredation (such as abortions, loss of milk production and subsidies per livestock head)
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Ex-post compensation system
Ex-post compensation covering up to 100% of the market value of livestock depredated by wolves and up to 60% of the value of livestock depredated by dogs.
In this study, they "conclude
that compensation may fail to improve tolerance toward carnivores unless it is integrated int...
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Blank handgun
A .22 starter pistol that fired blanks into the air was used alone or with a klaxon when wolves were known to be near (detected visually, by Wolf howls, or by strong telemetry readings). Also used when wolves were possibly near (determined by guard dogs barking consistently, Wolf...
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Manuel Human-Wildlife Conflict
Booklet with advice and measures to deal with coexistence issues between Human and Felid.
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Voluntary based compensation system
Cattle losses induced by jaguars could be compensated by a system of voluntary donations from tourists
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Virtual fencing
A virtual fence creates a no-go area by manipulating the “Landscape of Fear” of a specific species. The virtual fence is designed to act like a territorial boundary in the mind of a target animal. Territorial boundaries are respected by potential intruders out of fear of retr...
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Rancher Guide to prevent wolf attacks
Booklet on best practices to prevent and limit wolf depredation on livestock.
https://wolfwatcher.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Wolf-Awareness-Ranchers-Guide-2nd-Ed.pdf
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LGD Program
Program to promote the use of autochtonous breeds of livestock guarding dogs to prevent Wolf damage and mitigate conflicts, towards a sustainable coexistence between livestock breeding and Wolf conservation in Portugal
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Range riding
Employed a human, especially one on horseback, in and around a rancher’s cattle for the entire grazing season to lower Wolf attack on cattle. It helps calm cattle and disrupts wolves’ hunting patterns.
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Donkey
Donkey can alert with a very loud noise when a predator gets close to the livestock herd and possibly dissuade the animal to attack.
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Zebu
Zebu (Bos indicus) pure- or cross-bred with varying admixtures of European breeds (B. taurus). The original European breeds (e.g. Nelore breed) retained a stronger, innate defensive response to threats than zebus. Composition and age of the herd is important (older more experienc...
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Bio-boundary
Developing artificial chemical signals that will keep African Wild Dogs safely inside the borders of protected conservation areas.
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Turbo-fladry
Fladry is composed of a non-electrified wire where plastic strips or tissues are fixed every fifty centimeters. Its principle is to create a visual and sound disturbance. When the Wolf approaches, he is frightened by the movements and the sound of the bands, but he can get used q...
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Model Farm
Farm to show good farming practices and non-lehal measure to prevent and limit depredation by large carnivores
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Conditioned taste aversion
Test of two substances that have proven effective with other carnivores to deter pumas through conditioned taste aversion in order to reduce livestock predation.
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Eye-painting cow
This initiative consists of painting eyes on the hindquarters of cows to scare off predators that ambush them from behind like lions.
Working with Botswana Predator Conservation and local herders, we painted the cattle of 14 herds that had recently suffered lion attacks. Over fo...
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Self-feeding system
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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18 julio 2019
White Dogs Fund
Program to foster donation in order to support people in rural areas who shoulder the real cost of co-existing with wolves, brown bears and lynx with prompt and practical assistance to resolve conflicts.
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Stakeholders network
Building a successful network between stakeholders to prevent inaction towards the human jaguar conflict present in the area and to have better coordinated efforts to protect this threatened species.
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Participatory incentive program
Community workshops with 133 members of 7 communities and surveys with 25 multidisciplinary experts from government, nongovernmental organizations, and academia provided iterative data to design a plan of incentives
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Ultrasonic scaring device
Based on the theory of human fear of wolves, this paper presents a first attempt to evaluate the effect of introducing a hand-held ultrasonic scaring device to deter wolves.
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Framework Effective practices
Framework to assess the effectiveness of measures and practices to prevent and limit depredation of large carnivores on livestock.
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Study Factors Vulnerability Livestock
Reseach study and methodology to understand and identify factors accounting for the vulnerability of livestock
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3 julio 2019
Interim Relief Scheme (Cattle Compensation Programme)
With the objective of alleviating this situation, The Corbett Foundation (TCF), a conservation NGO working in India, launched the Cattle Compensation Scheme in 1995 to give interim and on-the-spot financial assistance to villagers, whose cattle have been killed by a tiger or a le...
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21 junio 2019
Ateliers Lycée agricole
Interventions et ateliers participatifs dans un lycée agricole auprès de futurs professionnels du milieu d'élevage avec la réalisation de supports d'informations et techniques (e.g devis mesures de protection) destinés aux éleveurs pour prévenir et limiter les attaques de ...
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