GELOB Operational Group: Management of extensive livestock farming in habitats with wolves
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2019 -2021
- Assigned Budget 511.047,86 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía; Aragón; Asturias, Principado de; Balears, Illes; Canarias; Cantabria; Castilla y León; Castilla - La Mancha; Cataluña; Comunitat Valenciana; Extremadura; Galicia; Madrid, Comunidad de; Murcia, Región de; Rioja, La
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://gelob.es/
The GELOB project (Management of extensive livestock farming in habitats with wolves) is included in the 2019 Call, submeasure 16.2, for the Execution of Innovation Projects of General Interest by Operational Groups of the European Association for Innovation in Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (AEI-AGRI), financed within the framework of the National Rural Development Program 2014-2020 by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development-EAFRD and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
This project is eminently practical, and its goal is to design and subsequently market a non-invasive technological solution for domestic livestock that will, on the one hand, assist farmers in their daily work and improve management conditions through geolocation and livestock monitoring systems.
And secondly, to detect and prevent wolf attacks in extensive livestock farming areas. It is also intended to serve as an integrating element for the different perspectives on the wolf problem in extensive livestock farming and to serve as a point of convergence and an effective tool for reducing the current high level of tension in livestock farming areas. Finally, we believe it can contribute to improving farms' economic performance and facilitate their restructuring and modernization, as well as agricultural diversification.
This project aims to create the appropriate structure to provide the livestock sector with tools to better manage extensive livestock and enable stable coexistence between domestic livestock and wolves.
The main objective is to ensure a reasonable coexistence between domestic livestock and wolves, avoiding the serious conflicts that currently exist between those who defend the interests of extensive livestock farming and those who defend the rights of wolves.
The goal is also to improve the working conditions of livestock farmers, the financial performance of farms, and the environmental benefits of grazing by allowing for more rational grazing.
To this end, work will be done on the design of several electronic devices and their corresponding software that can be marketed and used by the livestock sector to reduce the damage caused by wolf attacks and improve the management of large-scale livestock.
- Redesign of current devices to allow them to detect when wild animals are attacking domestic livestock. Design of a device that repels wolf attacks and establishes a protocol to abort them based on data analysis.
- Monitor and geolocate extensive livestock, control the areas where livestock are located and establish confinement criteria, so that alerts are triggered when certain configurable geographic limits are exceeded, and monitor and control transhumant livestock.
- Increase in the incorporation of young farmers into the extensive livestock sector.
- Coordinator/entity name: GELOB
- Coordinator/entity email: ingo@gelob.es
- Fundación Biodiversidad
- WWF/Adena
- Dirección General Medio Natural CYL
- UPA
- FIEB
- DIGITANIMAL
- URJC
- Consultores en Biologia SL
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