Behavioural insights commissioned workshops with Stakeholders. Subject: Dogs and livestock worrying Behavioural insights commissioned workshops with Stakeholders. Subject: Dogs and livestock worrying

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Behavioural insights commissioned workshops with Stakeholders. Subject: Dogs and livestock worrying

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As part of its Access Reform Programme (ARP), Welsh Government (WG) requested that Natural Resources Wales (NRW) provide advice and options for associated actions, for a number of reforms. Options regarding changes to legislative requirements and supporting actions to provide for: ‘Dogs to be on a short-fixed length lead in the vicinity of livestock at all times of the year’ were discussed and explored.

NRW submitted an advice and recommendations paper to WG for the dogs on leads reform area in March 2022, which was formed from collaborative working with external stakeholders. As well as covering legislative requirement advice, there were several nonlegislative recommendations put forward for consideration.

Feeding into the non-legislative recommendations, the aim of this project was to develop a behavioural science-based approach that would ultimately generate various behaviourally informed ideas for targeted interventions that might reduce the number of dog related incidents that occur in the vicinity of livestock.

Find out more this project in the research case study. 

 

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