The project started at the beginning of this year (2024-2029) and is coordinated by the Slovenia Forest Service. It focusses on conflict prevention and acceptance in the Alpine and Dinaric regions of Slovenia, and the eastern lowlands, where wolves are expanding (areas not yet prepared for the presence of carnivores).

It will assess the success of the existing RDP measures for preventing wildlife damages, improve and adapt these measures to specific contexts and foster their application (e.g. adapt new tools specific to the more challenging mountain terrain characteristic of the Alps, a “bear alert” system for beekeepers, an electric fence rental system). Then it will integrate the tested and adjusted measures into a new RPD programme.

The measures the project will focus on and improve because insufficiently or not properly adopted are: the availability and quality of livestock guarding dogs; shepherding; electric fences; control mechanisms and governance of administrations at different levels (institutional level); capacity building for farmers, beekeepers and officials.