2008-08-22 | The new conservation plan for the Kuznie reserve in the Beskidy Mts

We participated in the meeting concerning a new conservation plan for the Kuznie nature reserve. This is a complex of rocks and caves, where we have conducted studies from eleven years. The reserve is an important habitat for 11 species of bats, protected under Habitat Directive and Polish law. Based on results of our studies, the reserve will obtain the highest protection rank and new consevation rules.

2008-08-20 | Meeting of the anty-crisis working group

In Ustron, a town in the Beskidy Mts. there was a meeting of the working group focused on effects of the massive spruce decay on wildlife (mostly Natura 2000 animal species) in the Beskidy Mts. The group includes foresters, scientists, conservationists, and staff of the provincial nature consevation department in Katowice. We have proposed to establish special zones over 1000 m a.s.l. which will serve as refuges for wolves, lynxes, bears, bats, capercaillies, woodpeckers, and other rare birds. The forest activity in these zones should be restricted or prohibited next several years, to allow those species survive a large scale logging of spruce trees around.

2008-08-18 | Next fladry set for farmers

We have given a new 200 m long fladry set to a livestock breeder in the Beskidy Mts. On this farm our Tatra Mountains Sheep dogs and fladry set are in use from several years succesfully. The old, hardly exploited fladry set had to be exchanged for a new one.

2008-08-15 | The last mission of the Polish Communist Party

Farmers in the Carpathian Mts., based on our advises more commonly use fladry as a measure against wolf damage. Some of them recycle materials from the past. On the picture you can see a fladry made of a bannner of the Polish Communist Party, installed around a sheep pen on a mountain medow in the Beskid Zywiecki Mts.

2008-08-10 | Protection of European Migration Corridors

In Białowieża (7-10th August), there was a meeting to initiate a project of the Transeuropean Wildlife Networks. Representatives of scentific institutions and NGOs focused on large carnivores from Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romenia participated in the meeting. The main goal of the project is protection of ecological corridors,particularly for large carnivores, in a central part of Europe.