The science program aims to collaborate with research entities by sharing information gathered in the field.

The majority of the OPPAL committee is made up of biologists. It is therefore important for us that our actions can serve to advance scientific knowledge. In just a few years, OPPAL has become one of the largest field structures, accumulating tens of thousands of hours of herd monitoring and interactions with large carnivores.

After each mission, our monitoring teams fill out a standardized report that allows us to build a database that can be analyzed by scientists.

We allow a gathering and a collaboration between several hundreds of people from different social and professional backgrounds. A team of sociologists from the HES Valais follows our volunteers as well as the farmers and shepherds with whom we have been working for several years. The research team is studying the social interactions between these different actors.