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Lukáš Poledník / ALKA Wildlife

Critically endangered European ground squirrel in agricultural lands

Current European ground squirrel colonies occur mainly in artificial suburban localities such as airports, golf yards and camps. However long term survival of that critically endangered species depends on agricultural landscapes and their quality, so it depends on farmers and their way of farming. Therefore our activities to help EGS population focus on communication with farmers. Depending on the kind of farm and its products, sousliks could do damages on vegetable, corn and other crop, on the contrary in vineyards and orchards they do any harm to farmers. We have created and used trademarks "Souslik friendly wine" and "Souslik friendly orchards" as a tool for communication, education and PR. The success of tool such as trademark depends on many factors and is not automatic and self-running. To reduce potential conflict we also try to quantify damages and to develop mitigation measures.