ACTION E.1 – Public awareness raising and education campaign about brown bears on national and local levels
The main focus of the campaign is a dissemination of the best practice examples of human-bear conflict mitigation activities from the project results, experience gained in other projects and from other large carnivore and/or communication experts. The purpose of the campaign is to gain public interest, understanding and support for the long-term bear conservation through learning to coexist with bears. Campaign will be developed on the basis of the results from the public attitudes survey (Action A.2) and will follow project communication strategy (Action A.7). Moreover, it will serve as a communication support for all planned project activities.
Foreseen outputs of this action are the activities in which project members work closely with primary target groups such as hunters through lectures and round-table discussions, local inhabitants and famers through local events where conflict mitigation measures will be demonstrated (Action C.1 and Action C.2). Through field trips, and other educational (bear ‘kits’ with bear foot print models, brochure, etc.) and promotional materials (jackets, caps, etc.) large carnivore experts will present and participate with scouting or ‘pro environmental’ oriented organizations. Bear kits will be distributed also to schools with which project members will carry out workshops about the bear. Among many local and national events for general public that are planned photography competition and exhibition ‘Coexistence of bears and humans’ will be organized and numerous public presentations about bears implemented. Many printed materials will be produced and be widely distributed such as 1) a Brochure about bears, 2) Leaflets covering three main topics which are often the source of human-bear conflicts: a. proper human behaviour in bear areas, b. prevention of bear access to anthropogenic food sources, c. prevention of bear – vehicle collisions related bear mortality, 3) a LGD breeder handbook, 4) Thematic educational posters, 5) Bulletins (1st issue, 2nd issue, 3rd issue, 4th issue and 5th issue), 6) Information boards and 7) Promotional materials such as project jackets, caps, stickers and other small gadgets.
Latest E.1 actions:
Protection against damage caused by brown bears on beehives
Three articles about the effective protection against damage caused by brown bears on beehives were published in the September 2015 [...]
Bear family
A bear has been leaving signs of presence in our hunting grounds for quite some time, but it has always [...]
Presentation for mountaineers: about bears and project
We presented bears and LIFE DINALP BEAR project to participants of mountaineers' summer camp. All generations, from children to elders, [...]
Following the bear tracks
On May 27th (during the Slovenian forest week 2015) Slovenia Forest Service and Slovenian Forestry Institute organized the workshops for [...]
Presentation of the project on the Hunting and fishing fair
On the 9th international Hunting and fishing fair (17. – 19. April) in Gornja Radgona (Slovenia) we presented our project [...]
How to behave in bear areas? Find out in our new LIFE DINALP BEAR leaflet!
Do you know how to behave in bear areas? Do you know what does it mean if a bear stands [...]
