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The Approach

The Approach

To achieve a level of immunization sufficient to stabilize wild animal populations, approximately one hundred wild boar, seventy roe deer and forty red deer will be vaccinated during the pilot study.To enable vaccinated animals to be identified later for monitoring or...
Objective

Objective

Although hunting was banned in 1974 following a popular referendum, the Canton still culls hundreds of animals every year. These operations, carried out annually by staff of the Cantonal Office for Agriculture and Nature (OCAN), mainly target wild boar and deer (roe...
Method

Method

The study will assess and compare the effects and efficacy of these two immunocontraceptive vaccines. The first vaccine, GonaCon, was developed in the 1990s in the United States by the National Wildlife Research Center, a research unit of the U.S. Department of...