PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for preventing eating damage, which has excellent application and surely prevents eating damage by eating damage animals such as deer, and an eating damage protection member used therefor.SOLUTION: The method for preventing eating damage, which protects vegetation of an inclined surface N against eating damage animals, includes arranging in parallel a plurality of eating damage members 1 having a coefficient of static friction of surface against an eating damage animal sole of not more than 0.7 on inclined parts through which eating damage members pass in entering at least a vegetation protection area 2 continuously in the longitudinal direction and at a spaced interval S of not more than 10 cm in the transverse direction.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】 施工性に優れ、鹿等の食害動物による食害を確実に防止することができる食害防止方法およびそれに用いる食害保護部材を提供すること。【解決手段】 食害動物から傾斜面Nの植生を保護するための食害防止方法であって、少なくとも食害動物が植生保護領域2へ侵入する際に通過する傾斜箇所へ、食害動物の足裏に対して表面の静止摩擦係数が0.7以下である食害保護部材1を、縦方向へは連続して、横方向へは10cm以下の隙間Sを設けて複数並列配置するようにしている。【選択図】 図1