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Large Carnivores, Wild Ungulates and Society Working Group - WISO
Chair: Slovenia
The main objective of the Large Carnivores, Wild Ungulates and Society Working Group (WISO), set up by the X Alpine Conference in 2009, is 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 also consider economic and social aspects in a balanced manner. The tasks of the Working Group are in line with the Nature protection and landscape conservation Protocol of the Alpine Convention and support the efforts of the Contracting Parties to protect wild animal and plant species, their diversity, and their habitats.
During the current mandate, until the XVIII Alpine Conference, the WISO Working Group will pursue the following objectives:
- Promote the exchange among the Working Group members of information, scientific data, and experiences to support decision-making processes as well as the coordination of management actions for large carnivores. Updates about actions at the EU, international, and national level (publication of studies, political decisions, statements on the large carnivores…) will be part of this exchange.
- Share the available/applied monitoring methods and data for large carnivores, underlying the understanding of the viability of populations per Contracting Parties.
- Compare the use and interpretation of the derogation regimes of the Bern Convention and Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (the Habitats Directive) regarding the management of large carnivores.
- Present the national schemes for the use of the ERDF for prevention measures (under the current and next CAP) and explore developments.
- Exchange best practice examples on adapting the management of wild ungulates in relation to the presence of large carnivores, involving a broader circle of experts/stakeholders in a symposium.
Contact:
Rok Černe, Slovenian Forest Service
rok.cerne@zgs.gov.si
Overview of activities, documents and results
- Mandate until the XVIII Alpine Conference
- Implementation of the management options for the conservation of the Brown bear in the Alps (2022)
- Summary on the wild ungulate management discussion (2022)
- Landscape connectivity for large carnivores and wild ungulates in the Alps (2022)
- Implementation of the management options for the conservation of the wolf in the Alps (2022)
- Activity Report 2021-2022
- Prevention of damages caused by large carnivores in the Alps (2020)
- Summary of the exchange on ungulate monitoring (2020)
- Activity Report 2019-2020
- Activity Report 2016-2019
- Preventing damage by large carnivores: A comparison of use of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development to protect livestock in the Alpine countries (2018)
- Guidelines for Common Management of Brown Bear in the Alpine and Northern Dinaric Region (2017)
- 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 (2016)
- Lynx in the Alps: Recommendations for an internationally coordinated management (2016)
- Defining, preventing and reacting to problem bear behaviour in Europe (2015)
- Report on the implementation of the RowAlps project (2014)
- Preliminary results of the EU pilot action on problem bear management in the Alpine bear population (2014)
- 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
- Programme 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
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