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Wolf packs are growing and causing damages in the Peninsula. Farmers are getting highly concerned.

Wolf packs are growing and causing damages in the Peninsula. Farmers are getting highly concerned.

Wolf population is growing, around 340 wolf packs are now in freedom in Spain. This is good news for the recuperation of this specie from all the last centuries attacks; however, is causing important damages to livestock.

Only in this month (August), three news of attacks has appeared in the news, which supports the importance of the evaluation of the Laser Fence technology in wolf behaviour as a tool to decrease these attacks.

This again highlights the importance of the Last tow visits to Cantabria and Wolf center in Zamora, to continue understanding wolf behaviour.

Here is the link to the news: https://www.elcomercio.es/temas/generales/danos-del-lobo.html?ref=https:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Volterra and Fundacion Naturaleza y Hombre Visit Sierra de la Culebra Wolf center in Puebla de Sanabria, Zamora.

First visit to the Wolf Center in sierra de la Culebra.

Volterra together with Fundacion Naturaleza y Hombre went to visit the Wolf Center. A meeting with the team that manage the three wolf packs of the centre, was carried out. The Laser security requirements and previous experience with other mammal species were discussed.

Volterra and FNYH got to know the facilities and were able to see some of the wolves. Check out the video!

The trials with the laser will be done soon and the results will be really interesting for the LIFE Laser Fence project

Volterra visits Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre in Liérganes, Cantabria

Floris Vervaeke and Marta Múgica from Volterra Ecosystems, travel to Liérganes to meet Funación Naturaleza y Hombre and plan next month visit to the wolf study centre in Sierra de La Culebra. Carlos Sanchez director de la Fundación y Lorenzo García who was in charge of the Laser trials in Campanarios de Azaba, explained Marta and Floris hoy they think the animals will react to the laser and planned the best strategy to understand the results that will come up of the future wolf trials.

It was interesting for the four of them to meet and be able to share their vision of the damage that the wolf is causing in Spain and the benefits that Argilaser technology will have for Livestock farmers. Fundación and Volterra finalized and sign the document that the Spanish authorities required to carry out trials with protected species.

News from the visit to Sierra de la Culebra wolf trials will be posted in the webpage! Check it out soon!

CCTV work confirms camera trap findings on effects of laser on rabbits

LMJU University established a trap camera to identify the effect of the automatic laser on a field where the presence of rabbits was abundant. The power point below shows the interesting results that came out of this study.

CCTV data on rabbits Bickley Hall Farm September blog MCS

Now that the project is coming to an end all the data is being analysed and interesting results like this are coming out. We will be regulary publishing new results, so check out the website and social media to keep updated.