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Protection of large carnivores

Conservation

Conservation of large carnivores strategy in Slovakia.

  • Prevention and control of poaching which is the most serious factor threating populations of large carnivores.
  • Reliable population monitoring which uses modern equipment (such as phototraps and capture-mark-recapture), participation of the society and the key stakeholders.
  • Rising awareness of the society and the target groups.
  • Careful planning of road infrastructure, preparing spatial management plans and maintaining/improving wildlife corridors for large carnivores.
  • Financial support of mitigating measures for livestock, apiaries and crops protection and measures to secure communal waste from wild animals.
  • International consultations of all the plans and projects (including carnivores’ cull), in which transboundary impact cannot be excluded.