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Exclusion Fencing As An Alternative Solution - UMC Innovation
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Exclusions Fencing Studies

Exclusion Fencing As An Alternative to Electric Fences

Exclusion fencing studies prove their effectiveness where wild mammals can compete with domestic herbivores for food, can predate domestic herbivores or can damage crops. Human-wildlife conflict can be reduced if wild mammals can be effectively excluded from fields or other areas of crops or livestock.

Non-electric exclusion fencing is extensively used in protecting native wildlife and can reduce the risk of predators and other wild mammal incursions into such sites. If successful, this could reduce incentives for carrying out lethal control of such mammals. Non-electric fences may be more suited to more extensive farming situations than are electric fences, as they may require less maintenance.

This intervention also includes fortification of bomas (traditional livestock enclosures constructed by pastoralists) using conventional fencing materials such as fence wires.

Eight studies evaluated the effects on mammals of installing non-electric fencing to exclude predators or herbivores and reduce human-wildlife conflict. Two studies were in the USA and one each was in Germany, the UK, Spain, China, Tanzania and Kenya.