This is the fourth field season of the long-term study on bilberry germination and survival from animal faeces in Tatra National Park, where bilberry seems to be a crucial food for numerous species. In 2018, we started marking brown bear and mesocarnivore scats and bird droppings contaning bilberry seeds. Since then, […]
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Andean bears are the only bear species in South America, living exclusively in the Andes mountains. They can inhabit landscapes including glaciers and mountain grasslands at altitudes as high as 4,750 meters above sea level, but also montane and Amazon tropical rainforests […]
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Teresa Berezowska-Cnota from our team together with Svitlana Kudrenko from the Frankfurt Zoological Society have been awarded the Research and Conservation Grant, funded by the International Association for Bear Research and Management, for the second time! The project’s goal is to conduct the first systematic genetic monitoring of brown […]
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The intervention with a yearling bear captured near Teleśnica in January this year sparked a vivid discussion. Researchers from the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences and other experts collaborating under the Carpathian Brown Bear Project initiative emphasize that the history and course of interventions with bears so far require a […]
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Nuria Selva talks about the acceptance of wildlife in different countries at the “Wildtier Forum Berlin 2021” entitled “I like animals, but not here- when wildlife and humans come into conflict”. The Forum (https://www.deutschewildtierstiftung.de/mediathek/playlists/wildtier-forum-berlin-2021) was organised by the German Wildlife Foundation on 5th November 2021 and counted with […]
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