Beekeepers from Idrija will protect their beehives against bear damages

On 25th October 2017, we held an educational workshop at the city beehive in Idrija, Slovenia, where we presented the [...]

January 22nd, 2018|C2 Damage cases, Public attitudes, Public participation|

Kindergarten children learn about bears and forest

LIFE DINALP BEAR project visited a kindergarten in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where we held a workshop on bear’s life, morphology, its [...]

A new issue of project Bulletin »LIFE WITH BEARS«

We issued the third issue of LIFE DINALP BEAR project bulletin “LIFE with bears”. Besides important ecological findings, results of [...]

LIFE DINALP BEAR at the 25th IBA conference

The International Conference on Bear Research & Management is the largest thematic conference sponsored by the International Bear Association (IBA) [...]

Wishing you a happy New Year

We wish you an inspiring, adventurous and peaceful New year 2018, with lots of uplifting moments spent in nature. At [...]

January 3rd, 2018|F1 Project coordination, Public attitudes|

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|

Another meeting among Slovenian stakeholders

The fourth meeting with stakeholders in the process of developing a new Strategy for brown bear management in Slovenia was [...]

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 [...]

Population Status Report for brown bears in the project area

We have prepared the third annual Population Status Report for brown bears in the Northern Dinaric Mountains and Central-Eastern Alps. [...]

December 1st, 2017|C5 Population surveillance, Population monitoring|