The return of large carnivores to Europe’s human-dominated landscapes is a major conservation success, yet it brings its own set of challenges. In our recent study published in Global Change Biology, we present the […]
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News — Year: 2025
WildINTEL Mid-Term Meeting – Zakopane, Poland
From the 5th to the 11th of May 2025, the WildINTEL consortium gathered in the Polish Tatra Mountains at the field station of the Institute of Nature Conservation (IOP PAN) in Zakopane, for the second official meeting of the project. The meeting brought together a team of interdisciplinary researchers in ecology, wildlife […]
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Student/PhD student position in the WildINTEL project
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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New intern in our team!
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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A podcast about bears on Science Radio
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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