USDA Wildlife Services Highlights Nonlethal Wildlife Damage Management Tools

USDA Wildlife Services Highlights Nonlethal Wildlife Damage Management Tools

Posted by Gail Keirn, APHIS Legislative and Public Affairs (970-266-6007)

Invasive rodents on islands, predators eating livestock, vultures pecking at property, birds colliding with airplanes. Wildlife damage can take many forms. As such, wildlife managers need a variety of tools to help reduce damage.

To help explore many of the preventative or nonlethal tools developed and improved by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services, we invite you to view the program’s new online story map, Nonlethal Tools for Wildlife Damage Management.

Use the story map to:

• Learn about the use of fladry and livestock protection dogs to prevent livestock predation.
• See how a unique scare device disperses damaging vulture roosts.
• Explore efforts to advance vaccine, wildlife contraceptive, and gene-drive technologies to address wildlife disease issues, as well as overabundant or invasive species populations.
• Discover improvements to tools and techniques, such as detector dogs, repellents, and habitat modification.

Click here to learn more about this story map and others. Note the story map is best viewed using Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox browsers.