Photo Gallery: Large Carnivores in Slovenia

Pan European Conference on Population level  Management Plans for Large Carnivores NEW

The brown bear conservation and management in Slovenia (Short version - pdf, 3 pp)

 
The brown bear conservation and management in Slovenia (Long version - pdf, 15 pp)

The brown bear management in Slovenia Report 2007 (report to the Bern Convention Secretariat), March 2007 (pdf, 15 pp)

 
Brown bear (Ursus arctos) management strategy in Slovenia, 2002 (pdf, 22 pp)

INSTITUTIONS WORKING ON LARGE CARNIVORES IN SLOVENIA

Expert Institutions in Slovenia

• Slovenian Museum of Natural History 
• University of Ljubljana – Biotechnical Faculty, Deparatment of Biology
• University of Ljubljana – Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources
• University of Ljubljana – Biotechnical Faculty, Inštitut za zdravstveno varstvo in gojitev divjih živali, rib in čebel  (in Slovenian language)
• Slovenia Forest Service 
• The Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation   

Governmental bodies

• Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
• Ministry of the Environment and Epatial Planning – Environmental Agency   
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food

Non-governmental organisations

• Društvo proti mučenju živali Trbovlje (in Slovenian language)
• The society for the rights and liberation of animals (in Slovenian language)
• Society for the Protection of Animals of Ljubljana (in Slovenian language)
• Agricultural and Forestry Chamber (in Slovenian language)
• Hunters Association of Slovenia  (in Slovenian language)
• Association of Municipalities and Towns of Slovenia (in Slovenian language)
• The Association of Municipalities of Slovenia  (in Slovenian language)
• Zveza društev rejcev drobnice Slovenije (in Slovenian language)

Educational centers

• ZOO Ljubljana (in Slovenian language)
• Forest house Mašun (Slovenia Forest Service); tel. +386 5 700 0610

 
PROJECTS

• Conservation of large Carnivores in Slovenia – Brown Bear Project (project LIFE, coordinator: Forests Institute of Slovenia)
• Transboundary Cooperation in Management, Conservation and Research of the Dinaric Lynx Population (Projekt Interreg IIIa, prijavitelj: Društvo za ohranjanje, raziskovanje in trajnostni razvoj Dinaridov "Dinaricum")  (in Slovenian language).

EXPERT DOCUMENTS

• Bear Culling under the Habitats Directive in Slovenia – Analysis and Recommendations (Felix Knauer, Petra Kaczensky & Georg Rauer, 2007) (pdf, 11 pp)
   

EXPERT MEETINGS

• Pan European Conference on Population level  Management Plans for Large Carnivores, Postojna, Slovenia, 10-11 June 2008
• Brown bear management in Slovenia - Expert meeting, Mašun, 19-20 April 2007

INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS AND TREATIES

Bern Convention (Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats) 

• Report to the Secretariat of the Bern convention, 2007 (pdf, 13 pp)
• Reply of the Secretariat of the Bern Convention, 2007 (pdf, 1 p)

Habitats Directive ( Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora ) 

LINKS

• Large Carnivores ( European Commission, Directorate nvironment)
  http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/species/carnivores/index_en.htm
• Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (A Working Group of the IUCN's Species Survival Commission)
  http://www.lcie.org/