Good practice from the LIFE DINALP BEAR project live on

As part of the project Opazujem-Varujem, in which Slovenia Forest Service and Zavod Kočevsko participated as partners, experts from the [...]

Bear friendly map for tourism

During the project, the Bear Friendly Label was awarded to more than 70 products and services in Slovenia and Croatia. [...]

Defining the future of the “Bear friendly” label

Together with the marketing agency Nea Culpa, we have organized a workshop for the users of the “Bear friendly” label. [...]

Tourist guide educational course

An educational course for the future tourist guides was carried out in Kočevsko region in March, in collaboration with the [...]

Slovenian and American bear-related eco-tourism experience

After the IBA conference in Ljubljana in September 2018, several bear experts from USA joined us in the field. We made [...]

New Bulletin issue “LIFE with bears”

We have prepared the fourth issue of the project bulletin “LIFE with bears”. In the fourth year of the project, [...]

Educational workshops for Scout Association of Slovenia

Scouts spend a significant amount of time in nature - also in the areas with large carnivores presence. That is [...]

Non-governmental organizations received first “Discover Dinarics” funds

One of the basic principles of ecotourism is to provide benefits for the local population and nature conservation. Tour operators [...]

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 [...]

Hunters and bears

How do hunters get along with big predators on their grounds? That’s a question, which bothers mainly those countries, where [...]