Walkers in French Alps track sheepdogs with GPS - incidents reduced A website that geolocates the huge dogs and the flocks they protect has helped lower ‘frightening’ encounters with visitors
Shepherd in south of France fined after his guard dogs bite hikers Unions say multiple attacks were not the shepherd’s fault as he has to keep guard dogs to protect his flock from wolves
Shepherd's guard dogs attack hiker on French Alpine route Trails close to livestock can bring walkers into contact with the enormous dogs used to protect them from wolves. Find out what to do if you come across one
magazine Secret history of French villages: Village des Bories True story of the farmers’ stone houses of Bories...This month we explore the real, hard-life history behind the very pastoral stone huts built by peasant farmers in the Vaucluse
Shepherds protect Dordogne farmland Unused farming land in the Dordogne has been given a new lease of life in a project which uses public money to support young farmers and put sheep on to land that would otherwise revert to woodland.