Asylum for orphaned bears in Croatia (photo by Agnieszka Sergiel)

On bear sensory systems in the Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior

31 July 2019

Our colleague, Dr Agnieszka Sergiel took part in one of the Springer’s “living” editions entitled Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. This resource serves as a complementary to the handbooks and journals that have emerged in the last decade in this field […]

PhD positions in Doctoral School of Natural and Agricultural Sciences in Kraków

24 July 2019

The Doctoral School of Natural and Agricultural Sciences in Kraków has just been launched and starts on 1st October 2019. The School is run by the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany (coordinating unit), […]

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 […]