Bear poaching in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve in Ukraine is internationally well-known of its large area of old-growth beech forest, which is part
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Romania starts killing wolves and bears!
Killing wolves and bears is the only solution to solve human-wildlife conflicts, says the Romanian Ministry of Environment. This statement
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Leaving LIFE projects on predators in Italy? Just propaganda!
In collaboration with our Italian partner Eliante, on behalf Amici del Lupo, we want to address your attention to the
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Italy kills another ‘problem’ bear in Trentino
The provincial authorities of Trentino, in northern Italy, ordered to kill another bear of the local bear population. A hiker
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Bear-problems in Romania: who is to blame?
Romania is home to the largest number of brown bears in Europe, approximately 6,600 individuals. Recently the conflicts between bears
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Responsible use of brown bear in tourism
Wildlife observation is very attractive and very often the top tourism product offered by travel companies. It is also the
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Bear Daniza: her two cubs survived the winter 2014/15
If you recall, back in September 2014, Bear Daniza was supposedly accidentally killed when authorities tried to catch her. Daniza
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Slovenia also allows killing of bears and wolves
As a Wilderness advocate has informed us, Slovenia continues to allow the killing of wolves and bears. Already back in
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Bear compensation and co-existence: no relationship to bear population
Coexistence of large carnivores and humans is a formidable challenge for conservationists world-wide (Treves & Karanth 2003). Carnivores cause economical
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Never run from a bear!
“Never run from a bear”, is a motto of American ranger and bear expert, Gregg Losinski. Slovakia is a country with
Read MoreAn environmental Milestone – Home of the rare Spirit Bear saved!
It took more than 10 years of terse negotiating, protests, and debate, but last week a deal emerged for the
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Bears in Ukrainian Carpathians
The bear population in the Ukrainian Carpathians is a mystery! Please also read: Main reasons for human brown bear encounters
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Singing the bear away
This video shows a good tactic of tourists, somewhere in Russia, to avoid conflict with a bear. SING! Please also
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Extraordinary friendship in Finnland
The finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen spotted an unusual get-togeher during his tours through the wild finnish countryside. His first thoughts
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Why should we protect bears?
What’s good for bears is good for Wilderness. What if it was possible to protect wild places by protecting a
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Is feeding bears a solution or a curse for human conflict situations?
The traditional wisdom is “A fed bear is a dead bear”. We tend to follow the traditional research by relocating
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Bear Daniza killed – her cubs are on their own in the Wilderness
The female bear Daniza was accidentally killed by the local authorities using a tranquilizer gun. Her two seven-month old cubs
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Female Grizzly bear with a cub will stay in the wild after fatal mauling of a hunter
As we are still sad about the killing of the brown bear Daniza in Trentino, an almost similar event occurred
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Hiking in bear country
Lynn Rogers, a bear researcher for the past 40 years, and founder of the Black Bear Institute, has developed a
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Behaviour of Solitary Adult Scandinavian Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) when Approached by Humans on Foot
Successful management has brought the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) back from the brink of extinction, but as the
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