LIFE PLUTO - Teramo, October 13-15, 2016€¦ · LIFE PLUTO - Teramo, October 13-15, 2016. Two...
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Actions for the conservation
of the brown bear in Spain
Fernando Ballesteros – Fundación Oso Pardo – LIFE Bear Defragmentation
“Endangered large carnivores and scavenging raptors in Europe”
LIFE PLUTO - Teramo, October 13-15, 2016
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Two unconnected and genetically differentiated subpopulations
Very low heterozygosity (Ho=0.28 in the eastern subpopulation)
Eastern subpopulation critically endangered
Western
subpopulation Eastern
subpopulation
AT THE END OF THE XXTH CENTURY
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MONITORING
Annual counting of females
with cubs of the year
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western eastern
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Poisson regression,
Estimated rate of
exponential growth
from 1994 to 2014 was
10.1%
(7.8–12.4; p < 0.0001)
for the western
subpopulation
10.4%
(5.0–16.4; p = 0.0002)
for the eastern
subpopulation
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More than 1.500 illegal snares removed by FOP patrols
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Decreasing number of illegal snares founded by FOP and court reported poachers
-574 snares and 45 poachers reported in 2005-2009
-132 snares and 3 poachers reportedin 2010-2014
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Agreements reconciling hunting and bear conservation signed with Spanish Hunting
Federation, Cantabrian Hunting Federations and different hunters’ associations.
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Delivery of more than 1.600 electric fences to beekeepers and hunters to prevent
damage and avoid poaching
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Three main highways crossing the possible dispersion routes for bears
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Genetic evidences of migration between subpopulations
- 1991-1999: 1 migrant male detected (western to eastern) (Garitagoitia et al. 2007)
- 2004-2007: 4 migrant males detected (3 western to eastern) and 2 mixed bears in
the eastern subpopulation (Pérez et al. 2010)
- 2013-2014: 26 eastern bears genetically identified (7 migrants from western
subpopulation and 14 intermediate genotypes) (Fundación Oso Pardo, in prep.)
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2009-2011 LIFE07 NAT/E/000735
Corridors for Cantabrian Brown Bear Conservation
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2013-2016 LIFE12 NAT/E/000192
Habitat defragmentation for Cantabrian Brown Bear
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Bears in the Pyrenees
-Begining of the XXth century: more than 200 bears
- 2004: Last autochtonous female bear (Canelle) died
- 1996-97 and 2006: Reintroduction 6 females and 2 males from Slovenia
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2016: a new male from Slovenia released in Spain
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NEW CHALLENGES – HOW TO LIVE WITH MORE BEARS???
BEAR WATCHING ACTIVITIES AS AN OPPORTUNITY AND A CHALLENGE
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NEW CHALLENGES – HOW TO LIVE WITH MORE BEARS???
BEAR WATCHING ACTIVITIES AS AN OPPORTUNITY AND A CHALLENGE
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Oso habituados/oso problemáticosNEW CHALLENGES – HOW TO LIVE WITH MORE BEARS???
YOUNG BEARS, FOOD AND VILLAGES: TOWARDS HABITUATION
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