HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein<\/a> and LIFEstockProtect. It was quickly identified what interest all participants had in common: the preservation of alpine pasture management and with it the preservation of functions and ecosystem services it provides to our society. Without alpine pasture grazing, grazing areas, habitats for rare plant and animal species and erosion control are lost. The importance of these functions will even increase in times of climate change and species extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAt the top of the mountain, a misunderstanding could also be cleared up: livestock protection is not synonymous with fences everywhere. On high, steep alpine pastures, fencing as a livestock protection measure is often not effective or simply impossible. On many of these pastures, herding with herding dogs and night enclosures will be the best choice of protection. This allows for many other advantages, for example better control of animal health and targeted grazing. Overall, it was a very successful day and opened up future collaborations to improve human-wildlife coexistence in Austria as well the state of art of alpine pasture management. The excursion and follow up meeting was also showcased in the Kleine Zeitung: <\/p>\n\n\n\n