ACTION E.5 – Working with media
Regular communication with media will ensure that all relevant information about project activities and accomplished results will be available to the public. This will also ensure that public will be informed about possibilities of peaceful coexistence with bears and how to prevent human-bear conflicts, based on our demonstrations in the field (Action C.3).
The goal of this action is to ensure objective and accurate news about bears and bear management in media. Throughout the project we will regularly inform the public about project activities and promote bear conservation and coexistence of bears and humans. Regular press releases (at least six per year) and press conferences (at least 4) will be organized on all major occasions with regard to the project implementation. Popular articles about bears, prevention of human-bear conflicts, project activities and results of the project will be prepared and published in national, municipal and local community newsletters and webpages; minimum three each year of the project.
Focused articles will cover topics about bear ecology, history and current bear conservation issues, bear behaviour, instruction on how to avoid human-bear conflicts or which behaviours have to be followed in case of sightings, and better co-existence, including results from actions A.6 and C.4. Action A.7 will provide additional information about knowledge gabs and topics where there is low public acceptance in order to develop messages to raise public acceptance and positive public opinion. Additional press releases and educational articles targeted specifically to media focused to farmers will also be prepared.
Latest E.5 actions:
Press release from PAT: Bear equipped with GPS collar in Valle dello Sporeggio
Provincia Autonoma di Trento published the press release about the bear capturing planned in the Action D.1 of the LIFE [...]
Press release in Croatia: Counting bears and collecting of samples has started
On the occasion of the implementation of the action of counting bears in Croatia and Slovenia by using genetic sampling [...]
Press release about LIFE DINALP BEAR international bear meeting in Trentino
Provincia Autonoma di Trento published its first press release about the LIFE DINALP BEAR project. LIFE DINALP BEAR is a [...]
Media release on progress of sampling bear scats
An important aspect in managing bears is to know the population status, especially regarding its size. One activity in LIFE DINALP [...]
Press conference in Croatia
On May 21st 2015 our project partner Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d. organized a press conference in Bosiljevo (Croatia) to present the [...]
Public release
How to behave in bear areas On the occasion of publishing the first project leaflet How to behave in bear [...]