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Lupus Repel: Safeguarding grazing livestock through applied wildlife management

Authority

Hessisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Hesse

Contact

Mainzer Straße 80
65189 Wiesbaden

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Lupus Repel: Safeguarding grazing livestock through applied wildlife management

Project description

Wolves have been living permanently in Germany again since 2000 and in Hesse since spring 2020. The return of wolves to Hesse poses a challenge for the management of grazing animals. The use of conventional livestock protection measures such as electric fences and livestock guarding dogs is very labour-intensive. The project is working on a user-friendly and environmentally friendly method for protecting grazing animals and preserving pasture animal husbandry. The project focuses on the development of a scent and an associated dispenser system to deter wolves.  To this end, the volatile organic components of biomass are identified for the development of a deterrent scent and then statically analysed using a test set-up in the project farms and wildlife parks. In addition, GPS monitoring of the grazing animals to be protected will be used and the data obtained will be used to optimise the dispenser system for practical application. In future, the system is to be used in conjunction with other herd protection measures and, if possible, independently.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Results focusing on practiceorientation

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Key words

Animal husbandry

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020

OG contact information

Professur für Ökologischen Landbau, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21 C
35394 Gießen

Phone: 0641/9937731

Email: oekolandbau@agrar.uni-gießen.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Advisor
  • Researcher

Begin of project

2021

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

388,295

Link 1

Project description (german)

NUTS3 CODE

DE721 Gießen

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