Over the summer of 2015 LIFE project dissemination activities have continued focussing on the project itself, its goals and outcomes, both inside the Cantabrian brown bear interpopulation corridor, and in the surrounding areas and for different collectives. Among other activities, the project coordinator has held conferences and debates in the towns of Cármenes and […]
In the summer of 2015, a new autochthonous seed harvesting campaign has gone ahead to produce saplings for sowing the connectivity forests for the LIFE project. The work has been implemented by the project’s field team, but also with the help of volunteers, like FOP trainees and local people from the villages within the scope […]
Last Monday, March 23, a visit was made to the plantations developed in the interpopulation corridor in the framework of the LIFE Project «Habitat Defragmentation for the Brown Bear in the Cantabrian Mountains». The visit was attended by the General Director of the Natural Environment of the Junta de Castilla y León, José Ángel Arranz, […]
Between 6 and 8 February 2015 and International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure and other categories of bear-human conflicts has beeen hold in Kastoria , organized by the Western Macedonia Region and the conservationist organization Callisto , as a part of the project LIFE Arctos Kastoria “Improving conditions of bear-human coexistence in Kastoria Prefecture, Greece. Transfer […]
After an intense work of reconnaissance of the land and fruitful debates with proprietors, local councils and municipalities, at the end of 2014 the LIFE Defragmentation project has signed the first seven Land Stewardship Agreements for the plantation of the connectivity forests. The agreements have been signed with the local councils of Los Barrios de […]
Brown Bear Foundation has signed a collaboration agreement and an specific agreement with the Polytechnic University of Madrid with the aim of promote applied research and assessment of the brown bear conservation actions and specifically those related with connectivity between Cantabrian subpopulations. With this agreements, the team of researchers Santiago Saura, María Cruz Mateo and […]
La AFN quiere manifestar su apoyo a SEO/BirdLife ante las críticas de la ONC y otros colectivos de cazadores por el comienzo de un proceso participativo para definir el posicionamiento interno ante la caza. La Asociación de Fundaciones Privadas de Conservación de la Naturaleza , ante las críticas al desarrollo de un proceso interno de […]
El 7 de enero de 2017 unos excursionistas han localizado un oso muerto en las inmediaciones de la localidad de Moal , junto a la Reserva Natural Integral de Muniellos. El pasado sábado unos excursionistas localizaban un oso muerto en las cercanías de la localidad de Moal, en el concejo asturiano de Cangas del Narcea, […]
Durante el verano de 2016, el equipo de campo del proyecto LIFE Desfragmentación Oso ha seguido constatando la presencia de varios ejemplares de oso pardo por el corredor interpoblacional. En julio se ha producido un ataque a un colmenar en Matallana de Torío y se han localizado huellas en la zona en días posteriores. Poco […]
Los días 23 y 24 de mayo de 2016 se ha desarrollado una visita de seguimiento de la Comisión Europea al proyecto LIFE Desfragmentación Oso, con la presencia de Dorte Pardo-López, responsable para España del programa LIFE en la Dirección General de Medio Ambiente de la Comisión Europea. Después de una reunión de trabajo en […]
