We invite applications for a student/PhD student position within the National Science Centre (NCN) scholarship framework, as part of the project WildINTEL – “Building a scalable WILDlife monitoring system by integrating remote camera sampling and artificial INTELligence with Essential Biodiversity Variables” (2023/05/Y/NZ8/00104). This 3-year project, which began in […]
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We welcome Lucia Del Rio, who is doing an internship with us at the Institute of Nature Conservation (IOP PAN). Lucia is a PhD student at the Institute for Game and Wildlife Research (IREC) at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. In her PhD research, Lucia focuses on human- wildlife conflicts, specifically assessing […]
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The bear family (Ursidae) includes eight species: sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), Asiatic black bear (Ursus tibethanus), sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus), American black bear (Ursus americanus), brown bear (Ursus arctos) and polar bear (Ursus maritimus). The smallest can weigh 25 kg (25-63 […]
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“Mały Niedźwiadek” (Little Bear) is a children’s book by Mrs. Joanna Badnarczyk-Kowalczyk that recently had its premiere. The Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow is one of its media patrons. The author, in her series of stories “Animals from […]
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On February 12, a meeting dedicated to the coexistence of humans and large carnivores in the Polish part of the Eastern Carpathians was held in Lutowiska. The event […]
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