Innovation for the coexistence of extensive livestock farming with wolves

This Task Force aims to find effective methods to reduce the impact of large carnivores such as wolves on livestock, maintaining a balanced balance between rural development and the conservation of these species. The objectives will be to test the efficiency of different measures to prevent wolf attacks on livestock in different types of livestock and in different areas with different management; to optimize the cost/benefit ratio of the protection measures used by livestock farmers in different situations; to innovate in the adoption of prevention practices against wolf attacks; to innovate in the adoption of management practices that reduce the vulnerability of livestock and increase the detection of damage, adapted to the productive reality of farms and that do not entail a loss of competitiveness; to facilitate the large-scale implementation of effective protection measures against livestock depreciation; to reduce the depreciation rates of extensive livestock in Galicia by wolves.