A one-year project has been funded by the German Federal Environment Ministry’s Advisory Assistance Programme (AAP) to set up a secretariat and carry out two plenary meetings of a Dinaric regional platform for large carnivores. Covering the countries Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia, the platform is being established to discuss cross-border management and monitoring of large carnivores with national and regional authorities as well as stakeholders. The process builds on the “Budva agreement” which was signed at the Regional meeting of the EU Platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores in Budva in 2018. The project is managed by adelphi and the NGO Carnivora Magna.

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.