Communication in large carnivore conservation and management – A workshop

From 16th to 18th April 2018, an international workshop entitled "Communication in large carnivore conservation and management" was organized in [...]

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 “Future management of large carnivores in Slovenia” [...]

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, [...]

New livestock guarding dogs’ pups available

We continue with the distribution of livestock guarding dogs, as a new project litter is available on Sedmak farm. At [...]

March 12th, 2018|C2 Damage cases, Conflict mitigation|

LIFE DINALP BEAR at the international workshop about damage prevention

In February, project members from Slovenia Forest Service attended the international workshop entitled Prevention and compensation of damages from large [...]

March 7th, 2018|Conflict mitigation, F2 Networking, Management plans|

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|

New project litter – Karst shepherd dogs

The Tomšič farm from Zagorje (Pivka, Slovenia) is one of the best examples of preventing damages on livestock with the [...]

December 11th, 2017|C2 Damage cases, Conflict mitigation, Public attitudes|

Challenges in livestock protection on Carinthia’s pastures

Livestock protection by means of electric fences, livestock guarding dogs, shepherds or combinations of these are demonstrably effective and keep [...]

Bear Intervention Group training in Tarvisio

We organized a training course for the bear intervention group of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), which, in addition to the [...]