Livestock Grazing and Nature Conservation Objectives in Europe

Hampicke, Ulrich; Plachter, Harald

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68667-5_1

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“…Currently, livestock pasturing is employed as a tool for nature management (Agnoletti et al 2008; Hampicke and Plachter 2010), especially in attempts at re-wilding European woodlands or restoration of past wood pastures in European forests (e.g. Sumsion and Pollock 2005; Hodder and Bullock 2009; Buttenschon and Buttenschon 2013).…”

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Transition from traditional to modern forest management shaped the spatial extent of cattle pasturing in Białowieża Primeval Forest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Samojlik

Fedotova

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2016

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Pasturing of livestock in forests has had profound consequences for Europe’s landscapes. In Białowieża Primeval Forest (BPF), cattle pasturing was a part of traditional forest use that ceased only in the second half of the twentieth century. We collected information on the institutional changes governing forest cattle pasturing and the changes in spatial extent of cattle presence in BPF in last two centuries and information on cattle numbers and their impact on forest regeneration. The spatial extent of cattle pasturing was highly variable, with the distribution of grazing areas frequently changing. Forest near villages (constituting less than 10 % of the area) was most often used for cattle grazing during continued longer time periods. Historical data showed that cattle have had a clear impact on forest regeneration. However, the frequent changes that occurred in the extent of cattle grazing indicate that their impact occurred locally, was smaller in other less intensively used areas, and in the forest as a whole.

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Transition from traditional to modern forest management shaped the spatial extent of cattle pasturing in Białowieża Primeval Forest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Samojlik

Fedotova

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2016

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“…There are also positive impacts of livestock; for instance, as a protection for biodiversity, especially by maintaining valuable habitats [66], as free ranging livestock contributes to the maintenance of grasslands and landscaping [67].…”

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Economic Gain vs. Ecological Pain—Environmental Sustainability in Economies Based on Renewable Biological Resources

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There are two main international strategies concerning how to ensure a sustainable environment: one is to develop a globally bio-based economy, or bioeconomy, to meet the increased demand of goods and products to maintain our well-being and to reduce climate change. On the other hand, there is an aim to decrease the negative impacts on nature and natural habitats to conserve and maintain ecosystems and control the loss of biodiversity. There is a trade-off between these two strategies; as we increase the commitment to the bioeconomy by intensifying biomass production, we will simultaneously challenge biodiversity through the increased pressure on, and the utilization of, biological raw materials. Here, we first review and discuss the challenges and opportunities in terrestrial and marine ecosystems for the production of biomass for the bioeconomy. We focus on the trade-offs between economic sustainability on one hand, and environmental sustainability and resilience on the other hand. We conclude with a discussion of the various bioeconomy strategies. Finally, we present a conceptual model on how to sustainably develop the bioeconomies (by introducing the concept of optimizing the economic gain/ecological pain ratio) to be able to manage the biodiversity in a sustainable way.

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Livestock Grazing and Nature Conservation Objectives in Europe

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Transition from traditional to modern forest management shaped the spatial extent of cattle pasturing in Białowieża Primeval Forest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Transition from traditional to modern forest management shaped the spatial extent of cattle pasturing in Białowieża Primeval Forest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Economic Gain vs. Ecological Pain—Environmental Sustainability in Economies Based on Renewable Biological Resources

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