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Potential threats to sheep numbers

1 is the less important and 5 is the most important

Succession

Farms ceasing to farm	4
Urbanisation of region	2
Ageing population of farmers	4
Lack of skilled labour	1
Inability to hand on skills	1
Changes to the enviroment	2
Lack of training facilities	2

Climatic Factors

Redused availability of water	3
Reduction in available grass for grazing	3
Reduction in availability of winter fodder	3
Increazed requirement for housing animals	1
Increased weeds	1
Reduction in availability of bedding	1
Change in average temeperatures	2
Change in average rainfall	3

Political CAP / SFP

Removal of headage payments	3
Enviromental scheme changes	1
Need to increase farm productivity	3
Need to make management	2
Non farming uses of land	1
Increasing the area of actively farmed land	1
Decreasing the area of actively farmed land	1
Increasing farm labour	1
Decreasing farm labour	1
Increasing the use of inputs fertiliser/pesticides	1
Decreasing the use of inputs	1
Going organic	1
Diversification in to non farming activities	1
Ceasing farming altogether (retirement)	2
Cross compliance	1
Scrapie genotyping	1
Availability of processing plants	1
Availability of abattoirs	1

Number of farms are in environmentally designated agreement
Site of Special Scientific Interest (%farms/comment)

Special Area of Conservation (%farms/comment)	55
	Only one contract exists, but numerous sites covering a wide territory are under scoping studies
Environmentally Sensitive (%farms/comment)

Country Stewardship (%farms/comment)

Wildlife Enhancement (%farms/comment)

National Park (%farms/comment)	20
	farms whose headquarters are and/or transhumant in a acentral or periferral zone of the Pyrenees National Park
Organic (%farms/comment)	5

Food quality scheme (%farms/comment)	80
	AOC Ossau Iraty and red label (that is going to become an IGP) agneau de Lait des Pyrenees

Enniromental Schemes

Improved the diversity of wildlife	1
Improved the diversity of plants	1
Improved the access for the public	2
Increased labour requirement on farms	5
Increased work load for farmers	5
Reduced sheep grazing	4
Reduced sheep numbers	2
Improved sheep health	1
Increased weeds	3

Sheep Grazing Habbits

Improve the diversity of wildlife	4
Improve the diversity of plants	5
Improve the access for the public	1
Reduce weeds	5
Improve sheep helth	1
Sheep practicing hefting or transhumance	90
Environmental schemes affected traditions

Disesase Factors

Sheep Scab	3
Liver Fluke	2
Haemonchus (Barbers Pole worm)	2
Ticks	3
Tick born diseases	3
Scrapie	4
Bluetongue	5
Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)	1
Contagious epididymitis	4
Contagious Agalactia	5
Enzootic Abortion of Ewes_EAE	3
Maedi Visna	1
Caseous Lymphadenitis	1
Worm resistance	3

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Action Heritage Sheep AGRI GEN RES 040 receives financial support from the European Commission, Genetic Resources in Agriculture, under European Commission Council Regulation (EC) No 870/2004 AGRI GEN RES 2006 HERITAGE SHEEP

Potential threats to sheep numbers

France Greece Netherlands Slovenia United Kingdom Basco Béarnaise Bizet Causses du Lot Corse Grivette Limousine Manech Tête Noire Manech Tête Rousse Mourerous Rava 1 is the less important and 5 is the most important

1 is the less important and 5 is the most important