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 ākitsā with bear foot print models, brochure, etc.) and promotional materials (jackets, caps, etc.) large carnivore experts will present and participate with scouting or āpro environmentalā 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 āCoexistence of bears and humansā 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 ā 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:
LIFE DINALP BEAR presents its achievements in National Council of the Republic of Slovenia
Chamber for agriculture and forestry of Slovenia and National Council organised a meeting āFuture management of large carnivores in Sloveniaā [...]
How to effectively protect beehives against brown bear damage? A new documentary
Organisations Palorma Nature and Pro Natura from Switzerland, in cooperation with several other partners (WWF Switzerland, LIFE DINALP BEAR project, [...]
In the field with Biology Students Association
In winter, members of the Biology Student Association went to KoÄevska Reka (Slovenia), in order to get acquainted with the [...]
A communication workshop coming up!
āCommunication in large carnivore conservation and managementā is a title of a networking and experience exchange workshop, which will be [...]
Travelling photography exhibition āLife with Bearsā arrives in Zagreb
International conservation and coexistence photo contest āFINDING BEARINGSā, dedicated to brown bear conservation and human-bear coexistence possibilities, was held during [...]
New posters about coexistence with brown bear
Due to the high interest we redesigned and reprinted project posters about human and bear coexistence. In addition to larger [...]