Operational Group: Innovation for the coexistence of extensive livestock farming with wolves

The objectives will be:

• To test the effectiveness of different measures to prevent wolf attacks on livestock in different types of livestock and in different areas with different management.
• Optimize the cost-benefit ratio of protective measures used by livestock farmers in different situations; innovate in the adoption of preventive practices against wolf attacks.
• Innovate in the adoption of management practices that reduce livestock vulnerability and increase damage detection, adapted to the productive reality of farms and that do not entail a loss of competitiveness.
• Facilitate the large-scale implementation of effective protection measures against livestock depreciation.
• Reduce the depreciation rates of extensive livestock in Galicia caused by wolves.