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Webinar on large carnivore in Europe and interesting story of a shepherdess in the Swiss Alps
Today, The Karoo Predator Project attended a webinar on large carnivores in Europe (grey wolf, Eurasian lynx and brown bear) and on how sheep farmers could protect their sheep from predation. Tonu Talvi (Environmental Board of Estonia) and Valeria Salvatori (co-author … Continue reading
Author Workshop for Scientific Assessment on Livestock and Predation
Last Thursday and Friday, Justin, Nicoli, Marion and Marine were invited to Port Elizabeth to attend the author workshop for the Scientific Assessment on Livestock and Predation in South Africa (to learn more about the project, see previous post or click here). The … Continue reading
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Tagged caracal, jackal, karoo, karoo predator project, livestock, management, mesopredator, NMU, predation, predSA
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Reducing livestock depredation, a lesson from large carnivore studies
In December, 17 an interesting paper by Miller et al. was published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin about how effective different techniques (lethal and non-lethal) are to reduce livestock depredation by large carnivores. Although the study dealt with large carnivores such … Continue reading
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Tagged carnivore, depredation, husbandry, lethal control, livestock, predator
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The Karoo Predator Project now involved with PredSA
The Karoo Predator Project is now involved with the Scientific Assessment on Livestock Predation in South Africa (PredSA). The objective of this work is to “inform decision maker’s (in this case the South African government departments, and specifically the Ministers … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, caracal, jackal, karoo, livestock, mesopredator, nnmu, predator, predSA
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Tiny predators: ticks found off jackals and caracals in the Karoo
Dear followers, Today, I have a great post to share with you, written by Storme, about ticks on predators! I hope you will find it as interesting as I did. Enjoy! A few years ago, while doing some fieldwork in … Continue reading
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Tagged caracal, disease, jackal, karoo, karoo predator project, livestock, parasite, predator, storme Viljoen, tick
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Storme conducts research at Onderstepoort
As part of research collaboration with the University of Pretoria’s Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Storme has journeyed up to the Onderstepoort campus to learn some diagnostic skills and screen the Karoo predators for blood parasites. Onderstepoort is home to … Continue reading
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Tagged caracal, disease, jackal, livestock, parasite, Prof Banie Penzhorn, storme Viljoen, university of pretoria, veterinary science
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