Brown Bear Foundation (Fundación Oso Pardo, FOP) has signed a collaboration agreement and an specific agreement with the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) with the aim of promote applied research and assessment of the brown bear conservation actions and specifically those related with connectivity between Cantabrian subpopulations.
With this agreements, the team of researchers Santiago Saura, María Cruz Mateo and Alfonso San Miguel, from the UPM Departments of Natural Resources and Forestry Management are going to participate in the LIFE Bear Defragmentation project developing and Action Plan for the Habitat Improvement and Management in the Interpopulation Corridor as a future Area of Permanent bear presence.
December 2014