MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS VRANCEA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY LIFE08NAT/RO/000500 - Implementation Unit
LIFE NATURE LIFE08/NAT/RO/000500 LIFE+ LIFE URSUS Best practices and demonstrative actions for conservation of Ursus arctos species in the Eastern Carpathinas, Romania
FOTO ANNEX Covering the project activities from 15.01.2010 to 31.08.2011
Septembre, 2011
Strada Dinicu Golescu, nr. 2 Focsani, judet Vrancea
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ACTION A.1: Creating the project’s implementing team and the Steering Committee
First Meeting of the Partners (Targul Secuiesc)
The second meeting of partners (Baraolt/Cormos)
ACTION A.4: Analyze the bear damages at the entire project’s area level in order to establish the protection system’s implementing sites
Types of damages produced by bears analized in the project
Types of damages produced by bears analyzed in the project
ACTION C.1:Demonstrative application of a method set for quantitative and qualitative assessment of the bear population
“Camera traps” method – Mounting cameras
Surveying road transects, respecting the methodology
Tetracycline method– direct injection of tetracycline / food with tetracycline
ACTION C.2: Creation and demonstrative working at the entire project’s area level of an entity which will establish the risks and necessary measures in situations created by problem bears
Habituated bears in Tusnad area that were the subject of analyse by the RAT team
Damages analyzed by the RAT team in Covasna county
ACTION C.3: Extending of the Animal Rescue Mobile Unit (ARMU)’s action range at the entire level of the project area and insuring of rapid interventions for capturing, relocating and monitoring of problem bears
Training session for the new members of ARMU team
Enclosures for wild animals from the Centre for Rehabilitation and Monitoring of Large Carnivores in Lepsa Funicular
Pik-up destinated to emergency interventions for wild animals rescue (ARMU)
Transport cage built from lightweight materials, conceived for transport posibility in areas that are inaccesible for autos.
Solar panel for converting solar enercy in electrical energy
Medical intervention room is realized according to sanitarian/veterinary standards and it is endowment with all necessary equipment and furniture
Intervention for the releasing of a poached bear in Ghelinta
ARMU intervention for the the releasing of a poached bear in Ghelinta
The field team transported in Vintileasca locality a cage for capturing the bear having habituation trends
Capturing site for bear specimen having habituation trends in Vintileasca locality
Bear cub took from Lepsa on 23.06.2010
Transfer of bear cub from the Centre in Lepsa to Rehabilitation Centre for Orphan Bears in Balan, Harghita
Bear cub took from Nereju on 2011
Transfer of bear cub to Rehabilitation Centre from Lepsa
Bear cub taken from Bolotesti on 2011. The bear cub was kept in the plastic barrel from the picture
Transfer of bear cub to Rehabilitation Centre from Lepsa
Bear specimen with habituate trends, captured in Bodoc locality, Covasna County
Releasing the bear captured in Bodoc, Covasna in relocation area placed at considerable distance from human areas, in favourable habitats.
Bear specimen with habituate trends, captured in Malnas locality, Covasna County
Releasing the bear captured in Malnas, Covasna in relocation area placed at considerable distance from human areas, in favorable habitats.
Monitorizing one problem bear in Lepsa/Vrancea county
Female bear captured toghether with her two cubs in Tusnad, Harghita county. The three bears were relocated according to RAT documentation .
Medical evaluation of a deer at the center of Lepsa
In the first part of the rehabilitation , the deer needed hand feeding with milk
In the first part of the rehabilitation , the deers needed hand feeding with milk
Deer in the rehabilitation center Lepsa/Vrancea County
ACTION C.4: Reducing of juvenile mortality caused by human disturbance with the protection of hibernation dens in the cub nourishing period
Bear cub near a den. Arva area/Vrancea County
Dens dug located in the ground . Turia area
Dens in the trunk of an old tree. Sagau/Vrancea County
Natural cavities used by bears for winter sleep. Varghis/Covasna County
Measuring a cavity formed between large blocks of rock.
Active dens dug at the base of a tree of considerable size
Monitorizing of a den with video cameras during winter
Natural cavities used by bears for winter sleep. Harghita County
Mounting of video cameras and thermal senzors in bear dens.
Bear in den in Harghita county
Bear monitorized with a n external camera, mounted near the den
ACTION C5: Lobby for adopting by the Environmental Ministry (MM) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development (MADR) of a methodological guide on the optimal methods of assessing the brown bear population
Workshop 23-24 februarie Lepsa
ACTION C.6: Implementing at the entire project level of several demonstrative crop, livestock and farm protection systems by using repelent equippment and substances
System for defending corn crops with complex consisting of electric fence and acoustic/visual system, within the locality BârseĹ&#x;ti
Plum orchard protected with electric fence Orjoaga point, instead. Soveja
Acoustic and visual system installed around a grove of plum trees within the locality Spulber/Vrancea County
Acoustic and visual components of the system used for crop protection and sheepfolds
Installing of an electric fence at a sheep farm in the vecinity of SCI Madaras, Harghita County
Electric fence installed in a sheepfold of the locality Carta, Harghita County
Installin of an electric fence at a sheep farm in the vecinity of Danesti/Covasna County
Covasna bees farms protected by electric fence
Electrified fence mounted within the locality Gura Vaii/Vrancea County
Electrified fence mounted within the locality Sandominic/Harghita County
Electrified fence mounted within the locality Vintileasca/Vrancea County
Installing of an electric fence to a culture in Soveja area
Electric fence installed in a sheepfold of the locality Carta, Harghita County
ACTION C.7 Analyze of the degradation and fragmentation level of the brown bear habitats.
Analyze of fragmentation impact of the transport infrastructure. Bear killed by train at Bixad
Bear decapitated by train at Bixad
Bear injured by car in Bodoc
Forest habitats favorable for bears being fragmented by biulding of acces roads
ACTION D.1: Promotion of the project, it’s objectives and results
Meeting with students of a school in St. George to promote the project and the need to conserve target species
Meeting with representatives of institutions involved in the management of bears in Harghita County
Competition on brown bear conservation in schools organized by EPA Covasna (Earth Day)
Meeting with representatives of institutions involved in the management of bears in Covasna County
ACTION D.2: Install notice boards
Panel mounted at the ANCV –Orfhan Cubs Rehabilitation Center
Panel mounted at the EPA Harghita office
Panel mounted at the EPA Covasna office
Panel mounted at the EPA Vrancea office
Panou montat in SCI Herculian
Panou montat la Lepsa
Panou montat la SCI Balvanyos
Panou montat in SCI Putna-Vrancea
ACTION D.3: Awareness campaign for promoting the brown bear’s conservation and conflict reduction methods.
Press conference help on the field with the media in Vrancea county
Field trips with mass-media - Harghita
Field trips with mass-media - Covasna
ACTION D.5: Awareness campaign for promoting the communitarian interest sites, designated for large carnivore conservation, and for promoting the socio-economical benefits generated by the Natura 2000 site status
Field trip with students from Vintileasca at the LIFE project Rehabilitation Center
Journalist John Eldrige(Bruxelles) visits one of the the sheepfolds protected with electric fences
Informing activities for targeted groups
ACTION D.6 Awareness campaign for promoting local traditional products of farmers and handcrafters as tool to improve coexistence with brown bears in Natura 2000 sites
Natural berries syrups
Pollen, comb honey and wax products in Natura 2000 sites
Masks made out of certified wood products popular in the village Nereju / Vrancea
Smoked curd product with footprint and bear profile marks, produced in the campaign for promoting traditional products of farmers and handcrafters as tool to improve coexistence with brown bears
Pollen, comb honey and wax products in Natura 2000 sites
Dairy products in a sheepfold protected by electric fences