Easily accessible food attracts bears in the vicinity of settlements, especially household waste in garbage and compost. Therefore, the LIFE DINALP BEAR project team started introducing bear-proof compost bins and bear-proof garbage containers. Residues of food are inaccessible in this way by the bear, thus reducing the number of times bear is frequenting the settlements.
A call of the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP) for the co-financing of LIFE projects is open. In addition, we prepared a short explanation of the allocation system, as we have been receiving more and more questions on this topic lately.
This year, the European Commission approved the project LIFE Lynx, which will prevent the extinction of the largest European wild cat in the Dinaric and South-eastern Alpine regions. In the framework of the project, at least 14 lynxes from Slovakia and Romania will be relocated to Slovenia and Croatia, thus linking the Dinaric and Alpine…
Between June 21 and 23, 2017, team member of project LIFE CB SI participated in the second Alpine Natura 2000 Seminar, hosted by the University of Padua. The seminar offered participants an important opportunity to improve and strengthen the implementation of Natura 2000 in the region and to ensure progress in achieving the EU 2020…
