Members of the Association for Nature "Wolf" - Kornel Kurek and Olga Boryczko, discovered for the first time presence of notch-eared bat (Myotis emarginatus) in the Żywiecka Basin (Western Carpathians, S Poland). According to the Polish Red Data Book this species is endangered in Poland.
A new article entitled "Phylogeographic history of grey wolves in Europe" was recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. The article was elaborated by Polish scientists with the co-operation with specialists from Ukraine and Bulgaria. It is freely available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/104
Association for Nature "Wolf" presented its activities during the Second Congress of Women, which took place June 18 at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw (Poland).
Dr. Robert Mysłajek - AfN WOLF vice-president, ran a series of lectures for students of Postgraduate Studies in Nature Conservation at the Faculty of Forestry Agricultural University in Kraków (Poland).
A new book entitled "The World of wolves. New perspectives on ecology, behaviour and management", edited by M. Musiani, L. Boitani and P. C. Paquet, was recently published by the University of Calgary Press. Dr Sabina Nowak - an AfN WOLF president, was a co-author of the chapter entitled "Synthesizing wolf ecology and management in Eastern Europe: similarities and contrasts with North America".