The Brown Bear Foundation (FOP), together with other nature conservation NGOs, maintains a permanent collaboration scenario with the Ministry of Rural Development, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Environment of the Government of Cantabria, through a protocol signed in 2020, and within whose framework different actions are included, aimed at improving the conservation of the Cantabrian bear and its habitat, as well as its knowledge and social assessment.
Some of these activities are carried out through the Centre for Environmental Research (CIMA). We also participate with CIMA in the Environmental Education and Volunteering Programme in Cantabria (PROVOCA) , thanks to which dozens of volunteers carry out important work in the fruit tree plantations for the bear organised by the FOP in this autonomous community.
Furthermore, within the framework of an agreement with the Cantabrian Regional Society for Tourism Promotion, CANTUR SA, attached to the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Innovation, Transport and Trade, applied research actions have been developed on management with captive bears in the Cabárceno Nature Park. The Bear House in the Cabárceno Nature Park, inaugurated in October 2022, is also a result of this agreement.
In 2022, the FOP was the beneficiary of three grants from the Cantabrian Employment Service, co-financed by the European Social Fund, aimed at promoting permanent employment in the context of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (Decree 57/2021, of June 24).
