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We have published the first newsletter of the Bear Defragmentation LIFE Project, summarizing information and news for everybody. You can read it here (in spanish).

One of the dissemination actions of the LIFE Bear Defragmentation project is the editing of regular short video-news with the advances of the project and a final documentary with all its achievements. This first introductory video is a general presentation of the project, the geographical area and the main activities foreseen.

February 2014

As a networking and information exchange action, a team from LIFE Brown Bear Defragmentation has visited LIFE Iberlince from 24 to 29 January 2014. The main goal of this project is to reinforce lynx numbers in the existing populations and establish new populations in areas identified as appropriate, introducing animals bred in captivity, so there are important actions for the improvement of the habitat to favour the species and to facilitate a quantifiable increase of connectivity between population cores through corridors, as well as to avoid road kills and accidents and improve permeability. LIFE Brown Bear Defragmentation team, accompanied by LIFE Iberlince technicians from Junta de Andalucía and Fundación CBD Hábitat, have visited underpasses and ecoducts used by lynx in Doñana area, risky stretches of highways in lynx dispersion areas and other conservation actions developed in the main population area in Sierra de Andujar.

January 2014

LIFE Brown Bear Defragmentation team inside a Doñana underpass, discussing with Gema Ruiz, from LIFE Iberlince, the importance of ledges to avoid flooding of the pass

LIFE Project Brown Bear Defragmentation has been presented in a recent technical meeting developed in Cáceres (Spain) on the 13th and 14th of November 2013, with the title “Ecological connectivity and transport infrastructures”.

Participants in the meeting have concluded that roads and railways are barriers that hinder the migration and dispersal of organisms across the territorial matrix, and it is essential to make these barriers permeable, to allow movements of organisms and biodiversity. More information and documentation (in Spanish) can be downloaded here.

November 2013