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Following bear footsteps on the Open door day at the Slovenian Forestry Institute

Slovenian Forestry Institute and Slovenian Forest Service opened their doors on Wednesday, 24/05/2017, where we participated with the presentation of our LIFE DINALP BEAR project. The event was visited by at least 200 children, mostly primary school, but some came from kindergarten also. We presented bear diet, and through bear footprints and skull children got […]
29 / 5 / 2017
A, Activities, C, Communication campaign, E, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, News, Population monitoring

LIFE DINALP BEAR organises another meeting for production of Brown bear Common Management Guidelines

Members of LIFE DINALP BEAR project, WISO platform, and Slovenian Ministry of Environment and Space have met in a picturesque valley of Kolpa river in south Slovenia to discuss the final draft of Guidelines for Common Management of Brown Bear in the Alpine and Northern Dinaric Region. As a starting point, we presented some chapters […]
25 / 5 / 2017
A6 Common guidelines, Bear mortality, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring, Public attitudes

Public attitudes towards bears and bear management

We used structured survey to analyse public perceptions about human-bear conflicts and about potential solutions to human-bear conflicts on a randomly selected sample of inhabitants of bear areas in Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. Following a data quality screening, 2306 questionnaires were included in the analysis. Our results indicate that Italians can tolerate the most […]
21 / 5 / 2017
A, A2 Public attitudes, Activities, LIFE DINALP BEAR, News, Public attitudes

Two post-doc / PhD positions available in Slovenia

Two postdoc (alternatively PhD) positions within the projects “LIFE DINALP BEAR” and “Development of a multi­method approach to study wildlife behaviour: investigating human­bear conflicts in contrasting landscapes of Europe” are available at Forestry Department, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana for 2.5 years with possible extension. Topics: Adaptive behaviour of brown bears in contrasting landscapes of […]
7 / 4 / 2017
A3 Spatial connectivity, Activities, C5 Population surveillance, C9 Management scenarios, LIFE DINALP BEAR, News

Workshop “Managing brown bear across the Alps, the Dinaric mountains and beyond” in Venice

One of the LIFE DINALP BEAR project objectives is establishment of common guidelines for brown bear management on a population level. The project started with the idea of common guidelines for four countries, participating in the project – Austria, Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia. However, this goal was soon after agreed to broaden geographically, as the […]
10 / 2 / 2017
A6 Common guidelines, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring

International workshop about brown bear management in Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)

Two-day international workshop about brown bear management in Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was held in Banja Luka on February 18-19, 2016. Workshop started with presentation of conservation and management of the brown bear in the framework of European law and its compliance and implementation in the BiH as well as national […]
23 / 2 / 2016
A6 Common guidelines, F2 Networking, LIFE DINALP BEAR, News

Establishment of Common guidelines for population level management

On 20th and 21st of January the meeting with the members of the WISO Platform was held in Valdieri, Italy. On the meeting it was agreed that the Common guidelines for population level brown bear management, which will be developed within the LIFE DINALP BEAR project, will cover broader than just the project area (the […]
26 / 1 / 2016
A6 Common guidelines, F2 Networking, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans

Statement in Response to the Establishment of Technical Obstacles Along Slovenian-Croatian Border

During the December 2015 technical obstacles (i.e. razor wire fence) were placed along the Slovenian side of the border with Croatia as a safety precaution due to the migrant crisis. In the LIFE DINALP BEAR project team we are deeply concerned that the technical obstacle along the Slovenian-Croatian border will cause disruption of normal wildlife […]
22 / 12 / 2015
A3 Spatial connectivity, Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, E5 Media, Habitat conservation, LIFE DINALP BEAR

Guidelines for bear intervention groups

Within the project Action A.1 we prepared common Guidelines for bear intervention groups (BIG). They include the protocol with recommendations for actions to be undertaken by BIG in different conflict cases as well as the protocol for gathering BIG activities data. Guidelines will be later implemented into the (more detailed) national protocols, which will be […]
2 / 12 / 2015
A1 Conflict analysis, Conflict mitigation, E2 Education of officials, LIFE DINALP BEAR

Availability of carrion from wild ungulates as food source for bears in Slovenia

We assessed spatial and temporal availability of carrion from red deer, roe deer, wild boar and chamois which is already available to bears and availability of carrion that could be additionally used for feeding of bears. This analysis represents the basis for the establishment of experimental supplementary feeding of bears with carrion within action C7, […]
1 / 12 / 2015
A5 Availability of carrion, C7 Supplemental feeding, Habitat conservation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes, Uncategorized