Protection measures, implemented in LIFE DINALP BEAR, successfully transferred to other projects and practices

In LIFE DINALP BEAR and LIFE SloWolf projects we established a good cooperation with numerous livestock breeders, beekeepers, municipalities and [...]

Bears or other wildlife will cross the state road safer now

New dynamic traffic sign was installed along the state road Ljubljana – Kočevje (south from Turjak) in Slovenia. The execution [...]

February 13th, 2018|Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality, Conflict mitigation|

Electric fence was installed along a section of Primorska highway

Reduction of brown bear-vehicle collisions on highways is an important activity in our project action “Decrease of traffic-caused bear mortality”. [...]

December 19th, 2017|Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality, Conflict mitigation|

Reducing traffic-bear mortality in Slovenia

A female bear with three cubs wandered on a highway Ljubljana-Maribor in Vransko district in the night from 10th to [...]

Lecture for employees of “Slovenian Railways” in Postojna

On 23rd June 2017, ERICo institute and Slovenian Forest Service held a presentation about brown bears and wolves for employees [...]

Second meeting with local hunters

On 8th July 2016 we had a meeting with representatives of hunting clubs LD Velike Poljane and LD Dolenja vas. [...]

July 25th, 2016|Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality|

Acoustic deterrents now help bears to escape cars faster

In April, we completed the installation of acoustic deterrents into the roadside traffic pillars on the regional road Ljubljana – [...]

May 4th, 2016|Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality|

Bear or other wildlife road crossing is now tracked by the dynamic traffic signs

Two, in terms of animal-vehicle collisions problematic sections of the main road Ljubljana - Kočevje between Zgornje Lozine and Dolenja [...]

January 22nd, 2016|Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality|

The installation of acoustic deterrents on Railway to prevent bear train collisions

The acoustic deterrents, which minimize the chance of bear presence on the rail at the time of train arrival, were [...]

December 28th, 2015|Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality|

Meeting with representatives of the Slovenian railways

We met with representatives of the Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport in early October. At [...]

October 15th, 2015|Bear mortality, C4 Traffic mortality|