Congratulations to Dr. Carlos Bautista for his PhD doctoral study!

11 September 2022

Carlos has just defended his PhD degree at the last Scientific Council of the Institute of Nature Conservation. In his thesis he evaluated the different natural and anthropogenic drivers of human –wildlife conflicts. He used the case study of brown bear (Ursus arctos) damages to […]

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Protection of bear dens makes it to the court

2 September 2022

The Regional Court in Krosno has granted the Natural Heritage Foundation’s request to halt planned logging in one of the planned clear-cuts section in the Lutowiska Forest District, where potential and active bear dens are located. The Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the Forest District, […]

Fig 1. Willingness-to-travel (kms) by positive (green) and negative (grey) respondents towards large carnivores in Poland and Norway. It indicates the distance they would be willing to travel to visit a forest with a large carnivore species or to avoid it. Pie charts indicate the share of the two classes of respondents for each country.

Wild forests with large carnivores are more attractive

16 August 2022

In a crowded planet, the feeling of wildness is becoming more important for human recreation. A new study shows that two-thirds of the potential forest visitors in Poland (68%) and Norway (66%) preferred old natural forests inhabited by large carnivores.

Berry expedition in the Tatras in 2022

10 August 2022

This is the fourth field season of the long-term study on bilberry germination and survival from animal faeces in Tatra National Park, where bilberry seems to be a crucial food for numerous species. In 2018, we started marking brown bear and mesocarnivore scats and bird droppings contaning bilberry seeds. Since then, […]

Examining testicular histology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia (Photo credit: Dr. Jumpei Tomiyasu)

AnthroBear project collaborators meeting in Zagreb

19 May 2022

While collecting the samples during spring season 2022, we used the opportunity to meet with our collaborators from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Zagreb. We have consulted the samples of testes collected within the frames of previous project with veterinary pathologists, and dr. Ghulam Nabi had an […]