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Tuesday 3rd of June
Ecology & Society
*Please note that this program
is subject to change.
Last updated: 12-02-2025
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
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 - TBA
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:20 Parallel Presentations & Sessions
11:00 - 11:20
Carolyn Schaltegger
Ronja Kraus
Robert Myslajek
Salvador Lyngdoh
Wolf Fencing Team
Belgium
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.
Themes
Attitudes
Co-existence
Farmers
Wolves in Landscapes
Sessions with citizen initiatives for
co-existence with wolves
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.
Nima Badelu
Insights of coexistence between humans and wolves: a case study from Tandoure National Park in Iran.
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.
Pasturs (Italy)
11:40 - 12:00
Svenja Capitain
Exploring the role of implicit and explicit attitudes in human-wolf coexistence
Naresh Kusi
Perspectives of traditional Himalayan communities on fostering coexistence with Himalayan wolf and snow leopard.
Stefano Filacorda
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.
Tariku Mekonnen Gutema
TBC
Entre chien et loup (France)
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.
Peter Herdenschutz Niedersachsen (Germany)
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 16:00 Parallel Presentations, Sessions & Movies
Themes
Wolves & Society
Wolf Habitat
& Wolf-dog
Genetics & Health
Feeding & Predation
Challenges of co-existence
Sessions: Emotions in science and policy
Movies
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
Habitat protection is crucial for the future well-being of Poland's wolf population.
Isabel Salado
Echoes of survival: hidden genetic challenges in the Iberian wolf.
Kevin Groen
Feeding Ecology of Wolves in the Netherlands.
Annelies van Ginkel
TBA
Dilemma’s in nature management since the return of wolves.
TBA
13:50 - 14:10
Rebecca Albrecht
The Political Ecology of German Wolf Management - Narrowing Ideological Divides through Conservation Performance Payments.
Jennifer Hatlauf
Modeling habitat- and conflict potential for wolves in Austria to inform management.
Aimilia Ioakeimidou
From wilderness to urban edge: genetic insights into a newly established wolf population in Parnitha National Park—Central Greece.
Dani Freund
Video wolf predating beaver: how wolves influence beaver foraging.
Hans Peter Hansen
On wolves and commons: Institutionalizing local deliberation and social learning in Danish wolf management.
TBA
TBA
14:10 - 14:30
Iina Ala-Kurikka
Taming the Wolf Debate: Lessons from the LIFE BOREALWOLF Project Communication.
Clémence Méheust
The natural resettlement of the Grey wolf in Normandy, France.
Caroline Sophie Birkenhain
Pedigree-based analysis of livestock depredation behaviour in German wolves.
Elke Wenting
The Influence of Wolves and Wild Boars on European Facultative Scavengers.
Austin T. Homkes
Ending the cycle of endless conflict: four years of keeping wolves off a cattle ranch in Minnesota, USA.
TBA
TBA
14:30 - 14:50
Alma Sanchez
The Nez Perce Tribe and Himiin (gray wolf): A reflection of the past and dream for the future.
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.
TBA
TBA
14:50 - 15:10
TBA
Martina Lazzaroni
A novel approach to investigating the impact of urbanization on wolf-dog interactions in Central Italy.
Terrance Vincent O'Halloran
The Wildity Scale as a communication tool on reintroduced wolves.
Esther van der Meer
Wolves in the Netherlands : past, present and future.
Bart Beekers
Wolves as a scavenger and supplier of carrion in the Veluwe, the Netherlands.
TBA
TBA
15:10 - 15:30
Rob Lenders
‘Uuluesheued!’
A long term historical perspective on wolf-human relationships.
Astrid Vik Stronen
Wolf-dog hybridization and introgression in and around Dalmatia, Croatia.
Kees van Frankenhuyzen
Wolves in Southern Algoma (Ontario, Canada): A Private-Public Partnership Project.
Charlotte van der Locht
How fast do native ungulates respond to the return of the wolf in anthropogenic landscapes?
Jasja Dekker
Projecting wolf population dynamics in Europe, the need for regional parameters, and how to use population modelling in wolf policy and management
TBA
TBA
15:30 - 15:50
TBA
Helena Johansson
Wolves across species’ borders - genetic determination of wolf-dog hybrids kept as pets in Finland.
Mari Lyly
Volatility in volunteer work: developing large carnivore observation network in Finland.
Thomas Gable
TBA
TBA
Beavers - not ungulates - are the primary pray of many wolves during summer in a southern boreal ecosystem.
TBA
15:50 - 16:15
Break
16:15 - 18:15 Parallel Workshops
Mireille Gonzalez
Designing Diverse Social Conflict Resolution Approaches to Manage Human-Carnivore Conflicts
Femke Hilderink
Human wildlife conflict mitigation WWF
Diemer Vercayie & Pepijn t'Hooft
Citizen Initiatives for Coexistence: Towards a Collaborative Manual
Thorsten Gieser
Understanding emotions in human-wolf conflicts
Cassiopeia Camara
Maria Falkevik
Erik Versluijs
Howl You Say It? From Boomers to Zoomers
A crash course in wolf conflict cooking
Studying wolf behavior at high resolution: an introduction to acceleration data in animal behavior research
18:15 - 19:00
Break
19:00 - 21:00
Dinner
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