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 âkitsâ with bear foot print models, brochure, etc.) and promotional materials (jackets, caps, etc.) large carnivore experts will present and participate with scouting or âpro environmentalâ 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 âCoexistence of bears and humansâ 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 â 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:
High-school students about brown bear
In March, along with the projects Nat2care and YOUrALPS, presentation about brown bear and other large carnivore species was held [...]
Tourist guide educational course
An educational course for the future tourist guides was carried out in KoÄevsko region in March, in collaboration with the [...]
Following carnivore footprints with Scout Association of Slovenia
Scouts organizations were recognized as an important target group in the process of large carnivore conservation and protection of their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Professor Stephen Herrero awarded at âLIFE with bearsâ conference
LIFE DINALP BEAR project proudly hosted 26th International conference on bear research and management. The conference took place in Ljubljana, [...]