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Status and management of large carnivores in Slovenia

dr. Peter Skoberne

Ministrstvo za okolje in prostor

(Ministry for the Environment and Spatial Planning, Slovenia)

peter. skoberne@gov.si

7th Regional Workshop of the EU Platform on Large Carnivores

Living Together: coexistence between people and large carnivores

6th November 2018 – Budva, Crna Gora

REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA MINISTRSTVO ZA OKOLJE IN PROSTOR

Large carnivores in Slovenia

Population est. (2016): cca. 15 Stanje ohranjenosti (2013):

Population est. (2015): 533 - 598 Cons. status (2013):

Population est. (2016): 52 Cons. status (2013): U1= FV U2-

National and international legal framework

National legal framework:

Strictly protected species under Nature Conservation Law: Brown bear Wolf Lynx

International legal framework:

Bern Convention

Habitat Directive

CITES

Brown bear reservation Annex II, IV Annex II

Wolf reservation Annex II, IV Annex II

Lynx Appendix II Annex II, IV Annex II

Management competences

Monitoring, planning, technical co-ordination …

Policy Legislation

Implementation Monitoring

International cooperation

Permitting Damage compensation

Reporting (Art. 16 of the HD)

Game species, hunting

Technical advice, reporting (Art. 17 of the HD)

Scientific support, genetics, modelling…

Strategic documents (general)

MAINTAINING FAVOURABLE

CONSERVATION STATUS

COEXISTENCE

Two ultimate goals:

- +

POPULATION CONTROL

PREVENTION MEASURES

POACHING

DAMAGES

FEAR KNOWLEDGE

PROFESSIONAL CAPACITIES

EFFICIENT ORGANISATION

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

BUILDING TRUST

EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION

STRATEGIES

Strategic documents

Brown bear (2002, 2018?)

http://www.mop.gov.si/fileadmin/mop.gov.si/pageuploads/podrocja/velike_zveri/strategija_rjavi_medved_2002.pdf

Wolf (2009)

http://www.mop.gov.si/fileadmin/mop.gov.si/pageuploads/podrocja/velike_zveri/strategija_ohranjanja_volka.pdf

Lynx (2016)

http://www.mop.gov.si/fileadmin/mop.gov.si/pageuploads/podrocja/velike_zveri/strategija_ris_2016_2026.pdf

ACTION PLANS

Brown bear (2003 – 2005)

http://www.mop.gov.si/fileadmin/mop.gov.si/pageuploads/podrocja/velike_zveri/akcijski_nacr_medved_2003.pdf

Wolf (2015)

http://www.mop.gov.si/fileadmin/mop.gov.si/pageuploads/podrocja/velike_zveri/akcijski_nacrt_upravljanja_volk_2013_2

017_revidirano.pdf

Lynx (2023)

Management measures clusters

COMPENSATION SYSTEM

SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL PREVENTION MEASURES

EDUCATION, AWARENESS AND ADVICE SERVICE

POPULATION MANAGEMENT

(incl. lethal control) INTERVENTION GROUP MONITORING

DIRECT COMPENSATION

OF DAMAGES

PREVENTION MEASURES

112

PAYMENT OF ADITIONAL WORK (Agri-Env. measures)

OTHER MEASURES (e. g. organic waste management,

reducing mortality on infrastructures, supplementary feeding,

ecotourism…)

Population management – lethal control

PROTECTED SPECIES

CONDITIONS FOR EXCEPTIONAL REMOVAL (e. g. ‚problematic‘ bear)

SELECTIVE AND CONTROLLED REMOVAL

(Favourable cons. status + 3 Habitats Directive Tests)

TECHNICAL PROPOSAL

Population management – lethal control (implentation)

PROTECTED SPECIES

Managers of the hunting grounds (Hunting families,

State hunting reserves)

Intervention group,

managers of the hunting grounds

(Hunting families, State

hunting reserves)

Co-ordination of implementation

Monitoring

SUPERVISION

Hunting inspection Environmental inspection

Monitoring

- Monitoring protocols for all three species (in line with strategic documents) - Regular monitoring, using all available data (centralised data base at ZGS):

- mortality data; - contact events (112); - damage events; - damage compensation data (MOP/ARSO); - occasional observations; - special methods (e. g. howling …); - telemetry; - organised counting on counting places; - genetic counting (every 5 – 10 years);

- Modelling of population, genetic methods (Biotechnical Faculty);

REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA MINISTRSTVO ZA OKOLJE IN PROSTOR

More information

http://www.mop.gov.si/si/delovna_podrocja/narava/velike_zveri/

http://www.arso.gov.si/narava/%c5%beivali/od%c5%a1kodnine/

http://www.arso.gov.si/narava/poro%c4%8dila%20in%20publikacije/