Projects in this Area

In addition to guard dogs, donkeys have been used to protect livestock from wolves. Switzerland.

Return of the large carnivores to Switzerland

Hunting, forest conversion for agriculture and logging forced the lynx, wolf and brown bear in extinction in the Swiss Alps by the 19th century. Today...

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: Jan 1991

Sustainable agriculture in the Alps. Switzerland.

European Alpine Programme

At the end of 1999 an Alpine Programme was initiated by WWF Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland to explore the feasibility of adopting the ecoregi...

Modified: Feb 2008 - Started: Jan 1999

LIFE COEX - Improving Coexistence of Large Carnivores and Agriculture in Southern Europe

The project aims at the development of necessary legal and socio-economic conditions for effective conservation of large carnivores (grey wolf and bro...

Modified: Sep 2005 - Started: Oct 2004

Swiss River Restoration Initiative (FRISCH)

Kids for the Alps

Alpine Policy

Wild River Landscapes of the Lech Valley - a LIFE Project

Emerald Network (Natura 2000)

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