Large carnivores - progress update National workshops By now: in 11 Member States + Croatia (joint workshops in Latvia + Estonia & Czech Republic + Slovakia) In April: Portugal, Italy, Greece? + Switzerland Number of participants: 15 – 100 Aim: to discuss management of large carnivores in population level to help co-existence of rural people and conservation of large carnivores (Draft guidelines)
Pan-European conference on large carnivores 10-11 June 2008 in Postojna, Slovenia organised together with the Slovenian Presidency, the Commission and our contractor About 150 participants to specifically discuss and find consensus on the guidelines Members of the Habitats Committee, organisers of national workshops, major stakeholder groups, scientists invited Invitations sent out by the contractor, confirmation of participation still on-going