{"id":23176,"date":"2023-06-19T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/23093\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:53:34","slug":"23093","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/23093\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle against poaching continues: 410 interventions since 2022 by LWA EU Anti-Poison Dog Units"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Anti-poison Dog Units set up under the LIFE WolfAlps EU project<\/a>, together with those formed under the previous LIFE WolfAlps, are now well-established in the project area with 410 interventions carried out in the field from 2022 to date.<\/strong> Since they became fully operational, their intervention has been requested both for preventive purposes and following reports received in a variety of contexts, from urban to mountainous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1: Distribution of the 11 LIFE WolfAlps EU and WolfAlps APDUs. Archive LWA EU\/E. Avanzinelli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The release of poisoned baits is in fact widespread practice,<\/strong> and does not only concern malicious individuals who wish to ‘liberate’ hunting areas from predators (wolves in primis), or pastures to avoid predation on domestic livestock, but also truffle hunters for internal rivalries or even in city parks. In fact, the victims of such practices are not only wild predators in nature (wolves, foxes, for example, but also eagles) but also domestic dogs such as truffle hunters or shepherds’ dogs, or even unsuspecting dogs simply out for a walk, which almost always die in atrocious suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n