Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe IUCN/SSC Specialist Group statement on the use of artificial feeding as a management tool for large carnivore populations and their prey

9 November 2018

Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe IUCN/SSC Specialist Group (LCIE) has recently prepared a policy support statement regarding the use […]

“We need wild bears” – interview with Dr hab. Nuria Selva for Gazeta Wyborcza

27 February 2018

On bears, their behavior, artificial feeding of wild animals, on the urgent need for the implementation of the management and conservation plans for protected species – we strongly recommend an interview with Dr hab. Nuria Selva, the head of the […]

“Kuba The Bear. Stories from the bear den” children book

27 February 2018

The Institute of Nature Conservation PAS and our Carpathian Brown Bear Project group recommend the book “Kuba The Bear. Stories from the bear den” [“Kuna Niedźwiedź. Historie z gawry”] by Renata Kijowska. It is a history of a bear family living in Tatra Mountains written […]

Brown bears from the asylum in the Synewyr National Park in Ukraine. Photo by Agnieszka Sergiel

Dr Agnieszka Sergiel was a guest at Radio Krakow or “On the trail of the Great …. bear-foot”

6 December 2017

Dr Agnieszka Sergiel was a guest of Radio Krakow. She talked about her passion, which is research on the biology and ecology of bears. If you are fluent in Polish, we kindly invite you […]

A brown bear family photo-trapped at a hair-trapping station in the Northeastern Carpathians (SE Poland) while rubbing against a smola tree-trap

Effectiveness of various hair traps for brown bear research

3 November 2017

We encourage you to read our recent publication entitled “Effectiveness of different types of hair traps for brown bear research and monitoring” and published in PLOS ONE. The study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of different types of hair traps, commonly used in bear research and […]