140 years after extinction: can bears return to Białowieża?

18 June 2019

Brown bears went extinct in Białowieża Forest in the end of the XIX century. The last bear was killed in 1879, exactly 140 years ago. Since then, bears have been visiting Białowieża sporadically, but never staying. Decades after the last bear was killed, in 1908, […]

New publication: Brown bear attacks on humans: a worldwide perspective

12 June 2019

Negative encounters with brown bears are rare and mainly non-fatal. This is the main finding of a paper published today in Scientific Reports where the authors investigated more than 600 brown bear attacks on humans in 2000-2015 across the range inhabited by the species. Defensive […]

Note on the “Conservation Medicine in the Anthropocene” workshop at the Institute of Nature Conservation PAS

3 June 2019

Our workshop “Conservation Medicine in the Anthropocene: Applications of Modern 21st Century Technologies to the Assessment of Wildlife Health” took place on 15th of May 2019 at the Institute of nature Conservation PAS in Krakow. The workshop was […]

New paper on the “Large carnivore damage in Europe: Analysis of compensation and prevention programs”

22 May 2019

A new study coauthored by European experts and led by Carlos Bautista shows that every year European countries pay farmers almost EUR 30 million to compensate for large carnivore damages like wolves killing sheep or bears attacking beehives. […]

The IUCN SSC Bear Specialist Group’s Human-Bear Conflict Expert Team documents on “Approaches to Human-Bear Conflicts” and the “Principles of Human-Bear Conflict Reduction”.

13 May 2019

Interaction between humans and bears is common for all bear species around the world. Often, these interactions result in negative outcomes for bears and […]