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Tuesday 3rd of June
Ecology & Society
*Please note that this program
is subject to change.
Last updated: 20-05-2025
Plenary Presentations
08:30 - 09:00 Noëlle Aarts - Arguing along fault-lines: How rhetorical practices polarize debates on wolf comeback in the Netherlands and Flanders
09:00 - 09:30 Martin Drenthen - The challenge of making sense of wolves in cultural landscapes
09:30 - 10:30 Kevin Crooks and Mireille Gonzalez - Social-ecological insights in wolf restoration in Colorado, USA
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:20 Parallel Presentations & Sessions
11:00 - 11:20
Carolyn Schaltegger
Ronja Kraus
Robert Myslajek
Salvador Lyngdoh
Themes
Attitudes
Co-existence
Farmers
Wolves in Landscapes
Sessions: Citizen initiatives for
co-existence with wolves
Navigating Socio-Ecological Dynamics: Changes in Human Attitudes and Wolf Management in Switzerland.
Voices from the Mountains: Using in-person interviews to understand livestock farmers’ attitudes on wolves and wolf management in the Italian Alps.
Wolves as sentinels of farmers’ compliance with sanitary regulations in Poland.
Himalayan Wolves: Ecology and Conservation in Human Dominated Landscapes.
11:20 - 11:40
Davide Ravaglia
Media Attitudes Toward Wolves: The Role of Recolonization Phases, Pasture Seasons, and Proximity to Elections in the Italian Alpine Regions.
John Linnell
- no title, will be fun -
Julia Stauder
Fences and Shepherds Are Just the Start: Navigating the Complex Challenges of Implementing Livestock Protection Measures.
Dries Kuijper
Wolves recolonize novel ecosystems in Europe leading to novel interactions.
Participants:
Wolf Fencing Team
Belgium
Pasturs (Italy)
Entre chien et loup (France)
Herdenschutz Niedersachsen (Germany)
11:40 - 12:00
Svenja Capitain
Andrea Solic
Stefano Filacorda
Tariku Mekonnen Gutema *
Exploring the role of implicit and explicit attitudes in human-wolf coexistence
- no title, will also be fun -
Living labs - a shared management tool for wolf, livestock and hunting coexistence: The case study of the 4Pethabeco project (Ipa-Adrion Interreg Project) in the areas of the Dinaric Alps and the North Eastern Alps.
Home range, habitat use, and activity patterns of African wolves (Canis lupaster)
in the Ethiopian highlands.
12:00 - 12:20
Cassiopeia Camara
Age-Defying Conservation: Cogeneration from Boomers to Zoomers
Jérémie Moulin
It takes a village: thanks to inclusive conservation, an NGO implemented a successful livestock protection program in Switzerland
Malaika Mathew Chawla
The relationships between wolves and pastoralists in the context of shrinking grasslands in Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India.
Francesca Marucco
Transboundary Monitoring of the Wolf Alpine Population over 7 countries and 24 years.
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
A * means this is a prerecorded presentation. We aim to host a live Q&A after the presentation.
13:30 - 15:50 Parallel Presentations, Sessions & Movies
Themes
Wolves & Society
Wolf Habitat
& Wolf-dog
Genetics & Health
Feeding & Predation
Challenges of co-existence
Session: Living with Wolves: addressing emotions
13:30 - 13:50
Emu-Felicitas Ostermann-Miyashita
25 years since the return of wolves in Germany – is the public as polarised as we think?
Roman Gula
Isabel Salado
Kevin Groen
Habitat protection is crucial for the future well-being of Poland's wolf population.
Echoes of survival: hidden genetic challenges in the Iberian wolf.
Feeding Ecology of Wolves in the Netherlands.
Meta Rijks
Dilemma’s in nature management since the return of wolves.
13:50 - 14:10
Hugh Jansman
Jennifer Hatlauf
Aimilia Ioakeimidou
Dani Freund
Hans Peter Hansen
Wolves, science and society.
Modeling habitat- and conflict potential for wolves in Austria to inform management.
From wilderness to urban edge: genetic insights into a newly established wolf population in Parnitha National Park—Central Greece.
Video wolf predating beaver: how wolves influence beaver foraging.
On wolves and commons: Institutionalizing local deliberation and social learning in Danish wolf management.
Moderator:
Gerda van Dijk
Participants:
Annet Muller
Herman uit de Bosch
René Grotens
Maarten Jacobs
Glenn Lelieveld
14:10 - 14:30
Iina Ala-Kurikka
Iga Kwiatkowska
Caroline Sophie Birkenhain
Elke Wenting
Clémence Méheust
Taming the Wolf Debate: Lessons from the LIFE BOREALWOLF Project Communication.
Comparison of the diet of free-living wolf-dog hybrids and wolves
Pedigree-based analysis of livestock depredation behaviour in German wolves.
The Influence of Wolves and Wild Boars on European Facultative Scavengers.
The natural resettlement of the Grey wolf in Normandy, France.
Austin T. Homkes
Ending the cycle of endless conflict: four years of keeping wolves off a cattle ranch in Minnesota, USA.
14:30 - 14:50
Sandra Lai
(Re)Connecting the dots: assessing connectivity loss and landscape demogenetics of Ethiopian wolf populations.
Gwendolyn Wirobski
Seasonal and Health-Related Variations in Wolf Hair Cortisol: A Method Validation from Captive and Field Samples.
Joost de Jong
Kill patterns of recolonizing Eurasian wolves.
Anne Kessels
Polarising discursive practices in the debate on the comeback of the wolf.
14:50 - 15:10
Floor Lormans
Martina Lazzaroni
Terrance Vincent O'Halloran
Esther van der Meer
Bart Beekers
Coexisting with wolves: Managing conservation and public concerns on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug.
A novel approach to investigating the impact of urbanization on wolf-dog interactions in Central Italy.
The Wildity Scale as a communication tool on reintroduced wolves.
Wolves as a scavenger and supplier of carrion in the Veluwe, the Netherlands.
Wolves in the Netherlands: past, present and future.
15:10 - 15:30
Rob Lenders
Helena Johansson
Kees van Frankenhuyzen
Charlotte vanderLocht
Jasja Dekker
Astrid Vik Stronen
‘Uuluesheued!’ A long term historical perspective on wolf-human relationships
Wolf-dog hybridization and introgression in and around Dalmatia, Croatia
Wolves in Southern Algoma (Ontario, Canada): A Private-Public Partnership Project
Wolves in Southern Algoma (Ontario, Canada): A Private-Public Partnership Project
Wolves in Southern Algoma (Ontario, Canada): A Private-Public Partnership Project
15:30 - 15:50
Mari Lyly
Thomas Gable
Inès Moreno
Wolves across species' borders - genetic determination of wolf-dog hybrids kept as pets in Finland
Volatility in volunteer work: developing large carnivore observation network in Finland
Beavers - not ungulates - are the primary prey of many wolves during summer in a southern boreal ecosystem.
Swiss Wolf Monitoring and management: Integrating science, policy and conservation
15:50 - 16:30
Break
16:15 - 18:15 Parallel Workshops
Mireille Gonzalez
Designing Diverse Social Conflict Resolution Approaches to Manage Human-Carnivore Conflicts
Femke Hilderink & Sybille Klenzendorf
Conflict to Coexistence- an integrated and participatory approach to HWC management
Diemer Vercayie & Pepijn t'Hooft
Citizen Initiatives for Coexistence: Towards a Collaborative Manual
Thorsten Gieser
Understanding emotions in human-wolf conflicts
Cassiopeia Camara
Howl You Say It? From Boomers to Zoomers
Maria Falkevik & Joseph Harrington
A crash course in wolf conflict cooking
18:15 - 19:00
Break
19:00 - 21:00
Dinner
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