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Stockmanship or low-stress livestock handling principles developed by Bud Williams are powerful tools for grazing lands management. The use of stockmanship to ‘rewild' or train livestock to behave and move as a herd can also reduce and prevent predation of domestic livestock. Some predation of livestock is an inherent localized site factor. These factors include type of predator (lion, hyena, lynx, wolf etc.), predatory behavior (nocturnal, stealth, pack etc.), and habitat. Predation can be mediated by changing livestock behavior with stockmanship principles and traditional herding methods. Traditional herding methods of East Africa, Europe, Mongolia, and North America with the combination of stockmanship principles to reduce and prevent livestock predation will be discussed.