photo by Nuria Selva

Protect Bieszczady more and better

The current environmental, climatic, and epidemiological crisis is linked to human overpopulation and overexploitation of natural resources. One of the ways to tackle it is to protect functioning ecosystems better in order to protect ourselves. The Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish Carpathians are one of the natural areas that definitively should be […]

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Proposed changes in methods for brown bear monitoring available

The Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences has proposed to introduce changes in the methods for brown bear monitoring. The monitoring of species and natural habitats in Poland is conducted within the frames of National Environmental Monitoring. Our proposal is now available […]

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The return of bears to the lowlands?

Brown bears in Europe are mostly confined to mountainous areas. The recent records of a brown bear with the help of phototraps in Bialowieza Forest (june 2019 and april 2020) have raised important questions about the potential return of bears to the European lowlands. A recently published paper in […]

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Bears (and we) need more forests

The new EU Biodiversity Strategy plans to increase the quantity, quality and resilience of European Union’s forests. However, the actions proposed are too simplistic. Read more at the letter in Science “Misguided forest action in EU Biodiversity Strategy” by Nuria Selva and Coauthors. You can also watch the video prepared by […]

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