The international Life-Euro Large Carnivores, partially financed by the EU, of which Romania is a part of, is nearing its end. It is aimed at improving coexistence between people and large sized carnivores in Europe. For almost five years, through cross-border cooperation and communication, solutions were sought to prove that bears, wolves, and bobcats are a richness, not a problem. The program was aimed at helping these wonderful animals live in their habitats, crossing paths with people as seldom as possible. In fact, coexistence between people and large carnivores over the centuries took many compromises and adaptations on both sides. The explosion in human habitat and infrastructure in the last century has drastically reduced the size of the habitat of animals, and has significantly disturbed the life of many species. As the World Wide Fund organization has shown, the expansion of forest exploitation, of transportation infrastructure, of tourism, construction, and farming, but also
At the end of November, WWF Romania launched
the online campaign Bears with Cameras. The campaign is part of a wider project
aimed at monitoring large carnivore species in Romania, conducted by WWF and
its partners as part of the LIFE# EuroLargeCarnivores project. Nature
loves can follow on social media the first recordings made from the point of
view of carnivores themselves, with the help of special video cameras equipped
on their collars. The recordings were made over August-October using a number
of brown bears in a pilot activity. Gavril Marius Berchi, project manager with WWF
Romania, told us more:
People know
little about the social life of bears due to certain difficulties that prevent
long-term research of their behavior. By means of a European project, EuroLarge
Carnivores, we wanted to study these aspects more closely. We managed to equip
three video collars on three species of brown bears: a 4-year male that
frequently enters the area of Târgu
Mureș, and
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