Natour Alpe-Adria fair and responsible bear tourism practices

This Saturday, the international Natour Alpe-Adria fair closed its doors. Almost 330 tourism providers from 15 countries were presented. As [...]

February 6th, 2017|Activities, C6 Ecotourism, Ecotourism, News|

Networking with IMPEL – EU Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law

Yesterday, the LIFE DINALP BEAR project team from the Biology department of Biotechnical Faculty (University of Ljubljana) hosted a group [...]

Monitoring the presence of a bear near garbage cans on Vojsko plateau, west Slovenia

LIFE DINALP BEAR project team reacted on local inhabitants’ request for information, as they were being faced with a garbage [...]

First Tornjak pups available in February

In December 2016, we announced the first litter of project livestock guarding dogs in Slovenia. Little pups are growing up [...]

January 10th, 2017|C2 Damage cases, Conflict mitigation|

A handbook on protecting sheep against large carnivore attacks has been published

The Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, and Slovenia Forest Service have published a handbook about prevention measures of [...]

First »project« litter of livestock guarding dogs was born

The Sedmak farm near Pivka (Slovenia) is best-practice example of using livestock guarding dogs (LGDs) for protecting herds from large [...]

December 14th, 2016|C2 Damage cases, Conflict mitigation|

Bear-proof compost bins now available for commercial use

Bear-proof compost bins that are already being distributed for free as part of a project conflict-mitigation measures, are now available [...]

Expert visit of livestock guarding dogs in Provincia Autonoma di Trento (Italy)

Last week Silvia Dalmasso, veterinary in charge by Provincia Autonoma di Trento for check the guardian dogs has visited the [...]

November 8th, 2016|C2 Damage cases, Conflict mitigation|

First bear-proof compost bins set up in the field!

In October we started with setting up the first bear-proof compost bins in the field. With this measure we are [...]

October 21st, 2016|C1 Organic waste, Conflict mitigation|

Press conference at the beginning of the distribution of bear-proof compost bins

Municipality of Sodražica is the first area in Slovenia where we started with the distribution of bear-proof compost bins within [...]