Shepherds

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

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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.

Shepherds

Walkers in French Alps track sheepdogs with GPS - incidents reduced

Shepherd in south of France fined after his guard dogs bite hikers

Shepherd's guard dogs attack hiker on French Alpine route

Secret history of French villages: Village des Bories

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