D1 Conflict behaviour

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

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

Two bears radio-collared in Slovenia this spring

In the frame of LIFE DINALP BEAR project we radio-collared 2 bears in Slovenia in the last four weeks. They were both males, one 3 years old, the second 6 years old. Both captures proceeded as planned and we are already tracking their movements with the help of the data on their locations, sent by […]
23 / 6 / 2017
D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring

Captured and radio-collared a bear in Trentino

On Tuesday evening in val Algone, Italy, a female bear in great health condition and weighing 110 kg was captured, radio-collared, and released. This is the second capture of a bear in Autonomous Province of Trento this year, where Forest and Fauna Service is monitoring Trentino bear population in the frame of DINALP BEAR project. […]
2 / 6 / 2017
Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring

A bear in Trentino, Italia, captured, radio-collared and released

Two nights ago a young, subadult male bear entered a tube trap in the area of Lasino, Trentino (IT), set in the field by the LIFE DINALP BEAR project team and Corpo Forestale Provinciale personnel. The bear was narcotised to enable the capture team to measure it, take all the necessary samples and to fit […]
7 / 4 / 2017
Conflict mitigation, D1 Conflict behaviour, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring