GELOB Operational Group: management of extensive livestock farming in habitats with wolves
- Type Grupo operativo
- Status Filled
- 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/
Description
To design a non-invasive technological solution for domestic livestock that allows the detection and abort of wolf attacks in extensive livestock farming areas, as well as their geolocation to improve their management.
Objectives
- Preventing wolf attacks.
- Assist in the management of extensive livestock farms.
- Contribute to improving the image of the extensive sector and promoting generational change.
Results
- Redesign of current devices to enable them to detect when wild animals are attacking domestic livestock, design of a device that repels wolf attacks and establish a protocol to abort them based on data analysis.
- Monitoring and geolocating extensive livestock, control of the areas where the livestock is located and establish confinement criteria, so that alerts are triggered when certain configurable geographic limits are exceeded, monitoring and control of transhumant livestock.
- Increase in the incorporation of young farmers into the extensive livestock sector.
Contact information
upa@upa.es
Coordinators
- UPA
- FIEB
- DIGITANIMAL
- URJC
Collaborators
- Fundación Biodiversidad
- WWF/Adena
- Dirección General Medio Natural CYL
Beneficiaries
- UPA
- FIEB
- DIGITANIMAL
- URJC
Outsourced
- Consultores en Biologia SL
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