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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

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

Radio-collared another bear in Trentino, Italy

In Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy, Forest and Fauna Service team has captured a young male bear, weighing 129 kilograms, in Rendena valley. Possibly, this individual might be responsible for predation of cows during the summer. That’s why we took a hair sample for genetic analysis; the result of analysis, compared with the organic samples […]
31 / 8 / 2018
Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

Traffic related bear mortality – yearly report on effectiveness of mitigation measures

In the second half of the year 2017 and the first half of 2018, we continued monitoring the effectiveness of mitigation measures implemented to prevent traffic related bear mortality along the selected road sections of the road Ljubljana – Kočevje and the selected railway section between Ljubljana – Postojna (Rakek) and Postojna – Prestranek. The […]
14 / 8 / 2018
Bear mortality, Conflict mitigation, D2 Traffic related mortality, LIFE DINALP BEAR, News

A new leaflet about reducing brown bear-vehicle collisions in Slovenia

Mitigation measures for reducing traffic-caused bear mortality are important from two aspects: decreasing bear injury or mortality and traffic accident related risks for drivers and passengers. In Slovenia, 180 bears were killed in vehicle collisions in the period from 2005 to 2016. On average, this represents 15 bears per year or 15% of all detected […]
6 / 9 / 2017
Bear mortality, Conflict mitigation, D2 Traffic related mortality, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes

Reducing traffic-bear mortality in Slovenia

A female bear with three cubs wandered on a highway Ljubljana-Maribor in Vransko district in the night from 10th to 11th July. The unfortunate circumstances demanded all four traffic casualties; two cubs were killed by traffic at three a.m., the third one hour later, and the female the next night as she returned on the […]
1 / 8 / 2017
Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality, D2 Traffic related mortality, LIFE DINALP BEAR

A female bear has been captured in Culvert trap

Setting the Culvert trap for the first time in the field in Slovenia, an old female bear has been captured near a village last week. She was sedated and measured. We took genetic samples and fitted her with GPS radio-collar. By receiving GPS-locations from her collar we will be able to track her movements. By […]
28 / 7 / 2017
Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring, Public attitudes, Uncategorized

Capturing bears with Culvert trap has started

In the frame of LIFE DINALP BEAR project, we started capturing bears with Culvert trap (also called tube trap) in Slovenia. This bear live-trapping method for scientific, research, and management purposes has been long used in North America, where the trap design actually comes from. In Slovenia, the method has not been used before, but […]
20 / 7 / 2017
Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR