The project team LIFE DINALP BEAR estimated the number of bears in Slovenia by genetic analysis. More than 1,000 participants contributed to the results, which collected 2,472 samples in the life span of the brown bear in the first three months of the year 2015. Compared with the measurements carried out in 2007, it was…

Forest owners and volunteers, the LIFE ARTEMIS project team (Awareness, training and measures on invasive alien species in forests) invites you to training for participation in an early warning system and rapid response to alien species in the forest – the ZOHO system. The trainings will be held in 14 places in Slovenia in September…

In the lobby of the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, the exhibition of bears and wolves, created within the framework of the LIFE Programme, is being held by the end of October. The international photography exhibition “Life with bears” was created as part of the LIFE DINALPBEAR project. The project LIFE SloWolf (which…

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…

We started May with the second LIFE writer’s workshop, continued with a detailed workshop and concluded with a two-day international LIFE networking conference. If you missed our events, you can find all materials our website.

On Saturday, May 20, 2017, an open day will be held in the newly constructed demonstration facility of the LIFE ReSoil project in Prevalje. Kindly invited!

V začetku maja je Vlada Republike Slovenije sprejela Uredbo o Naravnem rezervatu Ormoške lagune, s čimer je območje postalo državni naravni rezervat. S tem je projektna ekipa dosegla še en pomemben cilj LIFE projekta LIVEDRAVA.