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The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus Cabrera, 1907), an endemic subspecies, is an important element of the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain). Despite the decline of this large carnivore species over the last few decades, wolves are still in the imaginary of Iberian rural communities that perceive this canidas both a diabolic creature and a mythic and benign animal. At the present time, livestock attacks attributed to the wolf are more and more frequent in the Iberian Peninsula, resulting in serious social problems. Most problems are due to economic damage caused to domestic animals in isolated rural areas. According to several researchers, some interesting strategies for Iberian wolf conservation might be related to traditional livestock practices
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Keywords
Iberian wolf Iberian Peninsula Ethnobotany Herbal remedies Ethnomedicine
Citation
Gonzalez, José Antonio; Carvalho, Ana Maria; Vallejo, José Ramón; Amich, Francisco (2017). Traditional plant-based remedies used to treat wolf bite injuries in Portugal and Spain: phytotherapeutic sources and cultural values for the conservation of an emblematic animal species. In Ana Maria Carvalho; Manuel Pardo de Santayana; Rainer Bussmann (Coords.) Living in a global world: ethnobotany, local knowledge and sustainability. 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany: book of abstracts. Bragança
Publisher
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança