Brown bear presence and spatial planning in Croatia

In Croatia, Veterinary Faculty of the University of Zagreb organized an educational seminar for different experts working in spatial planning and environmental impact assessment area. Event was organized within action C3 “Integration of bear habitat connectivity and suitability into spatial planning”. Project team members from Slovenia and Croatia presented their experience and challenges, encountered during […]
13 / 6 / 2019
Bear mortality, C3 Spatial planning, Conflict mitigation, Habitat conservation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans

Handbook for integrating brown bear presence in spatial planning

In the Dinarics, traffic related mortality represents a major cause of brown bear mortality and also limits bear expansion into Alps. With increasing awareness of the dangers of fragmentation, mitigation measures are increasingly being used worldwide to increase permeability and allow safe crossing across such structures (green bridges, overpasses or viaducts for larger mammals and […]
17 / 5 / 2019
Bear mortality, C3 Spatial planning, Habitat conservation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring

Why is brown bear removal a necessary measure for bear conservation in Slovenia?

Slovenia is considered as a country with efficient conservation and management system of its brown bear population. Beside being in favourable conservation status, Slovenian conflict prevention measures appear to be very efficient, too. Also removal from the population is thoroughly planned and based on scientific and expert knowledge. Despite that researchers and managers agree on […]
7 / 2 / 2019
Bear mortality, C5 Population surveillance, C9 Management scenarios, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring, Public attitudes

26th international Conference on bear research and management concluded

The main theme of the “Life with bears – 26th International Conference on Bear Research and Management” was human-bear coexistence in human dominated and politically fragmented landscapes. Specific conference topics were designed in a way to welcome recent research results, technical advances, and case studies on a wide spectrum of issues relevant to ensuring a […]
4 / 10 / 2018
Bear mortality, Communication campaign, Conflict mitigation, E5 Media, Ecotourism, F2 Networking, Habitat conservation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring, Public attitudes, Public participation

How did the bear abundance in Slovenia and Croatia change during the past 20 years?

Molecular genetics has been the primary method used to estimate bear abundance in the past 10 years. However, due to the financial and logistic limitations, these estimates are impossible to obtain on a yearly basis. Furthermore, the complexity of the analysis delays the process of obtaining the results, which means that the reported estimates can […]
3 / 9 / 2018
Bear mortality, C5 Population surveillance, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, 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

For the first time in Croatia the size of the brown bear population has been scientifically estimated

In the period from September to December 2015, LIFE DINALP BEAR project team organized genetic sampling on the territory of the Republic of Croatia with a main goal to, for the first time, determine the size of the brown bear population using scientific methodology. With the help of thousands of volunteers, 4687 non-invasive genetic samples […]
9 / 5 / 2018
Bear mortality, C5 Population surveillance, E5 Media, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring, Public participation

Report on bear population size estimate has been prepared

As an output of the project action C.5 “Establishment and optimization of an integrated, population-level surveillance of brown bear conservation status” we prepared a report on population size estimate. The overall goal was to establish robust, effective monitoring of brown bears in our project area. Genetics is one of the most important tools for this […]
28 / 3 / 2018
Bear mortality, C5 Population surveillance, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Population monitoring, Public participation

Two post-doc positions available in Slovenia

Two postdoc positions within the projects “LIFE DINALP BEAR” and “Development of a multi­method approach to study wildlife behaviour: investigating human­ bear conflicts in contrasting landscapes of Europe” are available at Forestry Department, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana until July 2019, with possible extension. Topics: Adaptive behaviour of brown bears in contrasting landscapes of Europe […]
20 / 2 / 2018
A3 Spatial connectivity, Bear mortality, C5 Population surveillance, C9 Management scenarios, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Management plans, Population monitoring

Bears or other wildlife will cross the state road safer now

New dynamic traffic sign was installed along the state road Ljubljana – Kočevje (south from Turjak) in Slovenia. The execution was enabled by LIFE DINALP BEAR project, Eurofins ERICo institute, MIEL Ltd., Intercompany Training Centre Velenje and Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Infrastructure. New dynamic traffic sign together with other two already installed […]
13 / 2 / 2018
Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR