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Consolidation of a bear population in a fragmented management territory: Central Pyrenees (PIROSLIFE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Background By 1990 native bears in the Central Pyrenees had become extinct. A reinforcement action with specimens of the same genetic strain from Slovenia was initiated in 1996. This project was funded and promoted by France, Spain and the EU, with support from the LIFE programme. However, the concerted actions were insufficient and the bear became extinc ...
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HABITAT DEFRAGMENTATION FOR BROWN BEAR IN THE CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS (LIFE BEAR DEFRAGMENTATION)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Background This project is a natural extension of an earlier LIFE project, ‘Corridors for Cantabrian Brown Bear Conservation’ (LIFE07 NAT/E/000735), which was carried out by FOP between 2009 and 2011. This project created a favourable environment for eliminating risks and raising awareness about the importance of the presence of the brown bear in the ...
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CORRIDORS FOR CANTABRIAN BROWN BEAR CONSERVATION (Corredores oso)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Background The Cantabrian brown bear is a population of Eurasian brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) living in the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain. Once found throughout most of the Iberian Peninsula, brown bear populations were increasingly restricted and reduced because of habitat degradation and fragmentation, poaching and poisoning, low social ac ...
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Improving coexistence of large carnivores and agriculture in S. Europe (COEX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2008,

Background Pilot projects that aim to reduce the conflict between large carnivores and human activities have been carried out in Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Now, for the first time, these countries have joined together in a co-ordinated effort to save their bear and wolf populations. The population size of these predators in the five Medi ...
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Conserving the Cantabrian brown Bear and combating poaching (Oso Cantabria)

Start date: Jul 1, 2001, End date: Jun 30, 2004,

Background A small population of brown bear (Ursus arctos) can be found in the Cordillera Cantábrica. It consists of 80 individuals in two groups, but its viability is seriously under threat. The latest demographic survey showed that the bears have a very low reproduction rate – an average of six births a year – and a high mortality rate particularly ...
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