The General Directorate for Environmental Protection in Poland (GDOŚ) issued on 7th July 2025, a permit to shoot three bears in the Cisna municipality. This permit was granted without consulting the State Council for Nature Conservation (PROP), which had issued a negative opinion last year on a similar application […]
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Conference was held on April 15th in Cesky Krumlov and aimed to provide experts, zoologists, researchers, and the wider public with essential insights into the current state of captive bears welfare and management. The conference was organized within the framework of the ‘BEAR HOPE’ project. The principal organizer was […]
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The European Wildlife Diseases Association Student Workshop took place in April (7-11.04.2025) in beautiful Croatia, supported by dr hab. Agnieszka Sergiel from our team and other wildlife and wildlife health experts from the University of Zagreb. Participants […]
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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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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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