WOLF AND SHEEP CONFLICT FRENCH ALP
After four months into the main sheep season in the southern French Alps, around twenty campsites have been equipped with foxlights for 8 farmers.
There was no more trouble from the flocks being scared by the lights, as with the first experience I told you about.
Not one attack in these campsites, when each one had been submitted to attacks from wolves in the previous years !
Now, although this is very good news, in the end of September official guards having infra-red equipment, and posted in the mountains nearby a night campsite with foxlights (since the end of June, at various sites in the nearby area), saw a few wolves coming very close to the foxlights and going toward the campsite to scare the sheep and try to have them run away and escape from the campsite, and this for two consecutive nights.
It means that the wolves may get habituated to the foxlights, but for one reason or another there has been no predation even in this case...
6 farmers still use foxlights down the valleys, until there is snow, which could happen anytime soon.
I'll let you know how it went.
Regards
Vissouze-Haven
FERUS
France
There was no more trouble from the flocks being scared by the lights, as with the first experience I told you about.
Not one attack in these campsites, when each one had been submitted to attacks from wolves in the previous years !
Now, although this is very good news, in the end of September official guards having infra-red equipment, and posted in the mountains nearby a night campsite with foxlights (since the end of June, at various sites in the nearby area), saw a few wolves coming very close to the foxlights and going toward the campsite to scare the sheep and try to have them run away and escape from the campsite, and this for two consecutive nights.
It means that the wolves may get habituated to the foxlights, but for one reason or another there has been no predation even in this case...
6 farmers still use foxlights down the valleys, until there is snow, which could happen anytime soon.
I'll let you know how it went.
Regards
Vissouze-Haven
FERUS
France
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