1. Enhance functional connectivity
- Building capacity of responsible agencies and Natura 2000 site administrators in landscape scale conservation
- Involving local stakeholders in connectivity management
- Securing land to develop linkage corridors
- Managing corridors to create carnivore-permeable landscape
2. Reduce human-wildlife conflict and build tolerance for carnivores
- Assessing degree, developing tailored methods and demonstrating tools and approaches to mitigate damage to livestock and crops
- Establishing a human-wildlife incident response team to mitigate conflicts
- Establishing and demonstrating enforcement patrols to detect and prevent poaching
3. Promote long-term planning and action for bear and wolf conservation
- Conducting monitoring activities to determine the current status of the target species, their prey and habitats
- Mapping and modelling bear and wolf and their prey species distribution, habitats and conflict areas to develop conservation objectives and tailored conservation actions
- Developing sets of conservation measures to support conservation of target species
- Developing case studies to test the implementation of conservation measures and investigate impact
- Developing participatory Regional Species Action Plans for bear & wolf
4. Enhance the awareness and support of local stakeholders for the conservation of bear & wolf
- Engaging local stakeholders in project inception meetings and in collaborative actions
- Demonstrating the outcomes of harmonising the forest and hunting sector plans with measures to improve the conservation status of the target species
- Changing the behaviour of key stakeholders to support the conservation of target species and Natura 2000 sites