Photographic exhibition »Life with bears« on display in Pivka

Travelling exhibition of photographs, collected within photo contest Finding bearings, is hosted at a new location – Krpanov dom in Pivka, Slovenia. All local inhabitants and tourists are kindly invited to visit. Teachers from local schools and their students have been invited, as well. The main goal of the exhibition is to present the brown […]
9 / 4 / 2019
Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes

20 educational workshops in Croatia

During the project, we held 20 educational workshops on brown bear in Primary and Secondary schools in Croatia. We visited a total of 13 elementary schools and 2 secondary schools in Gorski kotar and Lika area. Over 550 pupils participated in these workshops, which aimed to explain thoroughly specific and interesting facts about brown bears […]
29 / 3 / 2019
Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes, Public participation

Workshops for local inhabitants on the »hot-spots«

Because of the constant need of raising awareness about proper and consistent use of prevention measures, namely bear-proof garbage- and compost bins, workshops for local inhabitants were organized in February and March. They took place on all five project »hot-spots«: Sodražica, Rakitna, Loška dolina, Kostel and Zapotok, settlement in Municipality of Ig. During the workshops, […]
28 / 3 / 2019
C1 Organic waste, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes, Public participation

Professor Stephen Herrero awarded at “LIFE with bears” conference

LIFE DINALP BEAR project proudly hosted 26th International conference on bear research and management. The conference took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 16th to 21st September 2018. At the conference, The International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA) handed out their Distinguished Service Award to Professor Stephen Herrero. Throughout his career, Prof. Herrero has […]
19 / 3 / 2019
Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, F2 Networking, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes, Public participation

Bear talk at the meeting of Carinthian hunters

This month we gladly responded to an invitation by the regional hunters association from Carinthia (Slovenia) to present some views about brown bear and the main LIFE DINALP BEAR project activities. The attendants were coming from the region, where bear is only an occasional guest. They were nonetheless interested in bear biology, research findings about […]
13 / 3 / 2019
Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes

Cooperation with local experts on the hot-spots

On the »hot-spots«, areas, where bears wander near the human settlements most often, we started to locally address the problems regarding anthropogenic food in the year 2017, with the distribution and implementation of prevention measures, namely bear-proof garbage containers and bear-proof compost bins. Even though the measures prevent access to anthropogenic food by bears effectively, […]
11 / 3 / 2019
C1 Organic waste, Conflict mitigation, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes, Public participation

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

Lecture at the Croatian Mountaineering Club “Vučje Bratstvo

On 28th February 2019, the first meeting with the members of the “Vučje Bratstvo” mountaineering club was held. Among others, this was also the opportunity to schedule a lecture about bears, which  will take place on Thursday 7th March. We will inform members of the mountaineering club about the project’s activities and goals, and we […]
5 / 3 / 2019
Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes

Bear workshops at schools

In the last few months, we conducted ten more workshops about bears in Croatia: at the Elementary school Gerovo, Elementary school Perušić, Elementary school Ivana Gorana Kovačića Delnice, High school Željezničko tehnička Moravice, Elementary school Plitvice Lakes in Mukinje, and Elementary school Dr. Branimira Markovića in Ravna Gora. Workshops were held for pupils from 5th […]
1 / 3 / 2019
Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes, Public participation

What do children learn in bear workshops?

During the project we conducted many educational workshops on the brown bear for elementary and secondary schools, which holds true for Croatia as well. The goal was to bring certain facts and curiosities pertaining to bears life closer to students within Science and Biology classes. During the workshops, children learn about bear anatomy, ecology and […]
25 / 2 / 2019
Communication campaign, E1 Public awareness, LIFE DINALP BEAR, Public attitudes, Public participation