Brown Bear
Publish Date: 12.02.2015
Category: Our contribution to sustainable development goals,
Sustainable development goals: 15 Life on land (Indicators)
European LIFE+ project titled Comprehensive Conservation and Protection of the Brown Bear in the Northern Dinarides and the Alps – LIFE DINALP BEAR started in July 1, 2014. It is a cross-border project that involves organisations from Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, and Italy. The applicant and the coordinator of the project is the Slovenia Forest Service which in Slovenia is working alongside the University of Ljubljana (with the Biotechnical Faculty and the Veterinary Faculty) and the ERICo Velenje, Ecological Research & Industrial Cooperation Ltd.
The project shall attempt to establish a strategic territorial approach towards conserving, managing and monitoring the populations of the brown bear in the territories of the cooperating countries and beyond. It will involve activities for decreasing the number of conflicts between people and bears and encourage better co-existence. The planned project activities shall facilitate the natural expansion of brown bears within the project area and beyond. The project shall last five years, until the middle of 2019.
The value of the project amounts to EUR5,998,048, of which EUR4,150,611 of finances come from the LIFE+ Nature programme which amounts to almost 70 percent of the project’s value. The project shall also be co-financed by the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning in the amount of EUR1,052,814 which represents almost 19 percent of the project’s value.
Additional information on project partners and activities is available at the website http://dinalpbear.eu/ or Facebook and Twitter profile (name: LIFE DINALP BEAR).
Photos by Miha Krofel.