How can big cats and livestock breeders coexist peacefully?
That's the issue Tommy Gaillard is trying to tackle in French Guiana.
That's the issue Tommy Gaillard is trying to tackle in French Guiana.
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00:00My goal here in Guyana is really to be able to accompany breeders, to give them measures
00:23to limit feline attacks.
00:25If we don't give them alternatives, measures, help, advice, like what I'm trying to do,
00:32they will go for the simplest, for the most part, and shoot the jaguar and the puma.
00:42Hi!
00:43This is where she was eaten the other day, in fact she came out because at night she came out of the enclosure here and she got stuck there.
01:00She was really shot on.
01:01So I added a thread from there.
01:03Since last year, we have lost about 70 animals, about half of the chateau.
01:12These are the calves of this year.
01:16How old are they?
01:17They are 4 months old.
01:194 months.
01:20Yes, 4 months.
01:21These are the females, over there there is male water.
01:24For the moment, they don't come out as long as we haven't solved the problem.
01:32This problem has always existed.
01:34It's competition for resources, but it's going to be more and more important.
01:38Because what is it?
01:39Originally, it is this interaction between human activities and this wildfire which is becoming more and more important
01:47because we are deforesting more and more.
01:49And suddenly, the natural habitat is transformed by anthropic habitats, used by humans.
01:55It is no longer possible to destroy animals like that, it is no longer possible.
02:00We can very well find solutions, there are solutions that exist, we just have to look for them and find them.
02:08In the next episode
02:24There, they could pass underneath, a little bit there.
02:27You see, there, there is no line.
02:38In the next episode
02:54There, it's more for the individuals who are already identified as problematic, so of course we have to catch them.
02:59And there, they put necklaces in fact.
03:01With this system, we can delimit an area or several areas where there is the vulnerable domestic cattle to attacks.
03:10And when the feline arrives and wears a necklace, it alerts the breeder directly.
03:18If we had the return in 4 or 5 hours from the point emitted, we would be permanently where the animals are, so we could better manage our herd.
03:25That's it.
03:26We absolutely have to put in place the means to know the animal, but we also have to put in place the means to support the breeders who are in the middle and who are victims.
03:36There is no other choice than to shoot at it, because it is after a while when we lose our breadwinner.
03:43It is also normal that breeders have the approach to take the shot.
03:47Not like for the wolf in the metropolis.