C5 Population surveillance

Home range of bear »Rok« in our online database

We already reported about movements of brown bear male »Rok« in the pre-Alpine area (see the link here), and now you can also see a map of its home range on our interactive web portal MBase, which also contains an international database for large carnivores (https://portal.mbase.org/). Rok’s home range is shown here, and the entire […]
9 / 7 / 2021
C3 Spatial planning, C5 Population surveillance, C8 Monitoring geo-database, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

»Rok« the brown bear from »Trnovski gozd« in Slovenia – what is he doing?

The brown bear male from the pre-alpine area of western Slovenia, nicknamed Rok at the time of capture, was the last bear equipped with a telemetry collar in the frame of LIFE DINALP BEAR project. He was captured and fitted with a radio-collar at the end of May 2019 and since then his collar has […]
8 / 7 / 2021
C3 Spatial planning, C5 Population surveillance, Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, Habitat conservation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

Impact factors in occurrence of human-bear conflicts

Among many different possible conflicts between humans and bears, those that are a consequence of bear feeding behaviour are the most common. The distribution and gravity of conflicts depend not only on the quantity and on availability of anthropogenic food sources, but also on habitat characteristics, structure of landscape (overlap between bear habitat and settlements) […]
29 / 7 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

Guidelines for optimisation of bear population monitoring in Slovenia

In Slovenia, a variety of indicators for the brown bear population status, impact of bears on the environment and their interactions with humans have long been monitored. Number of monitored indicators has increased over time, some of them thus becoming redundant, which is why it makes sense to optimise the entire bear monitoring scheme at […]
24 / 7 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

What can data from long-term systematic counting at permanent counting sites tell us about bears in Slovenia?

Systematic bear counting on a network of permanent counting sites (feeding sites) is the oldest brown bear monitoring method in Slovenia aside from mortality recordings. In its present form it was introduced in 2004, but its beginnings date back to the early 1990s. The monitoring method has significant potential and in this report we provide […]
23 / 7 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

Minutes of the Workshop for Transboundary Monitoring available

In May, University of Ljubljana organized a two-day workshop. The workshop was organized in frame of the project LIFE DINALP BEAR with purpose of harmonizing population level monitoring of brown bears in NW Dinaric Mountains and SE Alps. Project partners from Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and Austria attended the workshop, as well as a representative from […]
28 / 6 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, News, Population monitoring

Workshop for Transboundary Monitoring of Brown Bear Population

Efforts towards population-level monitoring has been one of the crucial objectives of our project. A two-day workshop entitled “Transboundary Harmonization of Brown Bear Population Monitoring” was organized as one of the concluding activities of the project and was held at University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty. Within the course of the project, we tested and implemented […]
29 / 5 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring

Another bear radio-collared in the Prealpine zone

After our previous bear capture for research and management purpose in the Prealpine hills of Slovenia, another alarm message set us into alert two days ago. The capture team, together will a full support of local hunting club Krekovše, went to the location immediately. A younger male was trapped inside the Culvert trap. The capture […]
23 / 5 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

We collared a bear in Trnovski gozd

Last month, we set up a Culvert trap in the area of Trnovski gozd to capture a bear in order to fit it with a global positioning system (GPS) collar. GPS-collars allow us to track bear movement and collect their life history data. A younger adult bear was captured in the trap last week. The […]
8 / 5 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

How the bear sees the world

The interactive event »How the bear sees the world« was organized at the Biotechnical faculty at the Department of forestry on 21st February 2019. It started with a short introduction of the project LIFE DINALP BEAR and goals of the research of bear behavioural patterns with radio-telemetry techniques and video-camera on its collar. Afterwards, the […]
5 / 3 / 2019
C5 Population surveillance, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring, Public attitudes, Public participation