ACTION F.2 – Networking with other LIFE and/or non-LIFE projects

To ensure dissemination and exchange of new knowledge and experiences gathered in other similar projects a proactive approach will be taken. We will organize four international thematic workshops that will produce best-practice guides on the following topics:

(1) Using molecular genetics in brown bear conservation,
(2) The value of bears and how it shapes social carrying capacity,
(3) Human –bear conflict prevention, and
(4) Bear feeding: pros and cons.

Two experience exchange trips will be organized to visit LIFE08 NAT/RO/000500 and LIFE07 NAT/IT/000502 projects. Finally, during the last year of the project an international thematic conference will be organized. The conference will last three days out of which two days will be devoted to presentations and one day to a fieldtrip. Special attention will be given to the attendance of experts from the countries with which we share the bear population and are not participating in this project (Balkan countries).

26th IBA conference “LIFE WITH BEARS”, Ljubljana, Sept 2018 – Book of abstracts

Recommendations for legal regulation of bear-watching activities – Posvet Medved kot vrednota v turizmu (Bears as value in the tourism; in SLO)

Implementing robust genetic monitoring-workshop report and best practice recommendations

Latest F.2 actions:

Head of the LIFE Programme visits Slovenia

Head of the LIFE Programme at the European Commission, Mr Angelo Salsi, visited Slovenia on 26th and 27th of November. [...]

Seminar on coexistence with large carnivores in Belluno

On Friday, 19th October 2018, a seminar on impacts on game species and coexistence with large carnivores was held in [...]

About protection measures with AGRIDEA from Switzerland

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26th international Conference on bear research and management concluded

The main theme of the “Life with bears – 26th International Conference on Bear Research and Management” was human-bear coexistence [...]

LIFE DINALP BEAR supports Code of Conduct in Nature

On Thursday, September 27, 2018, the Forestry Institute and the Slovenian Forest Service held a presentation of the "Visiting Nature [...]

26th International bear conference hosted by LIFE DINALP BEAR in Ljubljana

This week more than 250 bear researchers and bear managers gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the “26th International Conference on [...]