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Large Carnivores, Wild Ungulates and Society Working Group - WISO
Chair: Slovenia
The objectives of the Large Carnivores, Wild Ungulates and Society Working Group (WISO), set up by the X Alpine Conference in 2009, are to find solutions to manage large carnivores and wild ungulates both harmoniously with society and based on an integrated approach. The Working Group goes beyond a strictly ecological approach and endeavours to take into account also economic and social aspects in a balanced manner. The work of the Working Group is in line with the Nature protection and landscape conservation Protocol of the Alpine Convention and supports the efforts of the Contracting Parties to protect wild animal and plant species, their diversity and their habitat.
During the current mandate, until the XVII Alpine Conference, the WISO Working Group propose to consider the following objectives as the work agenda:
- Promote the exchange among the Working Group members of information, scientific data and experiences in order to support decision-making processes as well as the coordination of responding actions concerning large carnivores. Additionally, the topic of genetic monitoring harmonization of wolfs in the Alps will be a part of this exchange, facilitated by discussing results of the LIFE WOLFALPS EU project;
- Maintain and improve spatial connectivity for large carnivores and ungulates in the Alps, also transnationally, and, as WISO Working Group, contribute with its expertise to the implementation of the pathways of the Alpine Climate Board within the sector of activity “Ecosystems and Biodiversity”;
- Review the implementation of recommendations made in the previous mandate periods’ reports on the coordinated management of Bear, Wolf and Lynx in the Alps and on the report on livestock prevention measures and thereby lay the foundation for an update of said reports and recommendations;
- Continue the exchange and discussion about wild ungulate management.
Contact:
Rok Černe, Slovenian Forest Service
rok.cerne@zgs.gov.si
Overview of activities, documents and results
- Mandate until the XVII Alpine Conference
- Prevention of damages caused by large carnivores in the Alps (2020)
- Summary of the exchange on ungulate monitoring (2020)
- Activity Report 2019-2020
- Report 2016-2019
- Report Preventing damage by large carnivores: A comparison of use of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development to protect livestock in the Alpine countries
- Guidelines for Common Management of Brown Bear in the Alpine and Northern Dinaric Region
- Statement on the DINALPBEAR report “Guidelines for Common Management of Brown Bear in the Alpine and Northern Dinaric Region”
- Wolf in the Alps: Recommendations for an internationally coordinated management
- Lynx in the Alps: Recommendations for an internationally coordinated management
- Defining, preventing and reacting to problem bear behaviour in Europe
- Report on the implementation of the RowAlps project
- Preliminary results of the EU pilot action on problem bear management in the Alpine bear population
- Preliminary version of the IBEX map in the Alps
- Guidelines "Large carnivores, wild ungulates and society" (adopted by the XI Alpine Conference, Brdo 2011)
- Background document - available in German, French, Italian and Slovenian
- First Conference of the Large Carnivores and wild ungulates Platform - WISO, 26-28 April 2012, Innsbruck
- Program WISO Conference April 2012, Innsbruck
- WISO Platform Activities, Caroline Nienhuis
- Guidelines for Population Level Management, Urs Breitenmoser
- Brown bear management in Slovenia, Marko Jonozovic
- The genetic footprint of Alpine ibex reintroductions & implications for population management, Christine Grossen
- Results from the ECONNECT project, Ruedi Haller
- Monitoring standards for large carnivores in Germany, Felix Knauer
- Lynx Project Bayern, Sybille Wölfl
- Monitoring of wolves in the Alps, Francesca Marucco
- Working group Modeling
- Working group Monitoring
- Working group Human Dimensions
- Second Workshop of the Large carnivores and wild ungulates Platform, 1-3 February 2010, Innsbruck
- Programme
- Information on the first meeting of the platform
- Situation of large carnivores in the Alps, Urs Breitenmoser
- Carnivores and Ungulates in the Alps, Ulrich Wotschikovsky
- Expectations of alpine hunters towards governments concerning large carnivores and wild preys, Marco Giacometti
- Multifunctional close-to-nature forest management and wildlife management, Philippe Schütz
- Multifunctional Mountain Forestry, Kurt Ziegner
- Alpine Outdoor sports–recent developments, nature compatibility & good practices for visitors guidance, Willi Seifert
- Viewpoints of the Alpenpark Karwendel, Tourism, Anton Heufelder
- Small Ruminants versus Large Carnivores in the Alps, Georg Höllbacher in Veronika Nowak
- Nature protection, Joanna Schoenenberger
- Platform "Ecological Network" of the Alpine Convention, Yann Kohler
- Alpine Space Project Econnect, Aurelia Ullrich
- First Workshop of the Large carnivores and wild ungulates Platform, 22-23 October 2009, Vaduz
- Information on the first meeting of the platform
- “Large carnivores and wild ungulates”,mandate, reasoning behind and working methods, Felix Näscher
- Platform “Large Carnivores and wild ungulates” and the Alpine Convention, Regula Imhof
- Living with large carnivores and wild ungulates in a changing ecological, economical and socio-cultural environment, Mario F. Broggi