Transnational exchange platform for the management of large carnivores in the Dinaric region, Meeting 2 Sarajevo | 15-16 June 2022
The objective of the platform meeting was to bring together government representatives from the Dinaric region, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo*1, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and to discuss common approaches to large carnivore (LC) population management across the region. At a first meeting in November 2021 in Ljubljana, agreement was reached on the baseline situation, the desire to collaborate and the need to continue the platform activities. The aim of the second meeting was to progress along two lines of work:
- Practical examination of the activities on which governments and administrations can collaborate
- Work on a formal collaboration agreement (binding or non-binding international agreement between the participating countries
- Meeting minutes [Dinaric LC Platform - minutes final.pdf]
Next steps document available in English, Albanian and Croatian
Presentations
- Introduction and meeting aims, feedback on progress since the first platform meeting, Andrea Solić and Katrina Marsden, Secretariat
[1.1_Introduction_team] - Financing of this meeting: introduction to the Advisory Assistance Programme Sonja Otto, German Environment Agency
[1.2_AAP UBA_Otto] - Large Carnivore management examples from Germany Katharina Steyer, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
[1.3_BfN Dinarides _Steyer] - Round table on hunters’ involvement in large carnivore management: hunting, non-consumptive uses and monitoring Examples and panel discussion led by Đuro Huber, Secretariat
[1.4_Acceptance LC value_Huber] - LIFE Lynx project Collaboration with hunters, Rok Černe, Slovenia Forest Service
[1.5_lifelynx hunters_Cerne] - Carpathian Convention cooperation with the hunting organizations, Klaudia Kuraś, UNEP Vienna Programme Office, Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention
[1.6_CC cooperation with CIC_Kuras] - Carpathian Convention, Klaudia Kuraś, UNEP, Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention
[2.1_Carpathian Convention_Kuras] - Alpine Convention, Živa Novljan, Secretariat of the Alpine Convention
[2.2_Alpine Convention_Novljan]
For further information see:
A transnational exchange platform for the management of large carnivores in the Dinaric region
[1] Any reference to Kosovo* in this text is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.