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Sunday, November 18, 2012

How Urine 'Bio-Fences' Could Save African Wild Dogs


Find out how researchers and conservationists are using an innovative new method to protect the critically endangered African wild dogs... More

1 comment:

Peter Apps said...

Thank you for linking this story, which tells how the Paul G Allen Family Foundation Laboratory for Wildlife Chemistry at the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust is establishing radical new ways of keeping African wild dogs away from livestock to reduce fatal human-wildlife conflict.

Check out; http://www.bpctrust.org/bioboundary-project.asp , and http://www.bioquicknews.com/node/956 which gives a summary of the latest results on the chemical composition of the African wild dog scents, which will form the basis of the artificial scent marks that will be used to build the BioBoundary.

The detailed scientific paper can be found at http://www.springerlink.com/content/q25612243661l211/ .

Peter Apps