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Wednesday 4th of June
Policy & Practice
​Plenary presentations​
08:30 - 09:00 Nicole Wanders Wengler & Marco Cipriani - EU wolf policy:
current status and future outlook09:00 - 09:30
09:00 - 09:30 Ilka Reinhart - What is the wolf doing in politics? The political vs. the biological wolf
09:30 - 10:00 Arie Trouwborst - The shifting legal landscape for wolf
conservation in Europe
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10:00 - 10:30 Break
*Please note that this program
is subject to change.
Last updated: 20-05-2025
10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Presentations & Sessions
Room
Earth
10 + 11
2 + 3
Water
Themes
The path to co-existence
Lessons from monitoring
Wolf management
Innovations
Session
10:30 - 10:50
Maria Granados
Towards Coexistence: Mapping costs and benefits associated with living with wolves in Spain.
Carmela Musto
“The Italian wolf network”: presenting a model for a multidisciplinary operational network for the systematic processing of wolf samples.
Robert Ekblom
Probably the best wolf monitoring in the world.
Giorgia Ausilio
Effects of helicopter captures on wolf movements and behaviour.
Moderator:
Glenn Lelieveld
The wolf debate within dynamic politics, misinformation and social media
Participants:
Maria Falkevik, Cassiopeia Camara, Claudio Sillero, Fridolin Zimmermann, Pepijn T'Hooft, Arie Trouwborst
10:50 - 11:10
Katharina Steyer
Establishing favourable reference values under the Habitats Directive for the wolf in Germany.
Marco Apollonio
Wolves in Italy: insights for a European scenario.
Daniel Mallwitz
How to (legally) kill a wolf in Sweden.
Jeremy Sunder Raj *
Factors impacting collar malfunction and collar chewing behavior in gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park.
11:10 - 11:30
Sarah Marshall
The (Italian) Urban Wolf Project: a multidisciplinary approach exploring the effect of the anthropogenic environment on wolves’ behavioral, hormonal, health-related and genetic profile.
Tomaž Skrbinšek
Juan Pablo Ramirez
Towards transboundary genetic monitoring of wolves: an online platform for harmonization and sharing of wolf genetic monitoring data across countries and laboratories.
The effect of legal status on wolf population dynamics.
Air
Thoomas Gable
No title yet - will be fun!
11:30 - 11:50
Niels Gilissen
Wolves: the uninvited guests - A nature conservation NGO facing the return of a large predator
Josip Kusak
Chasing tail - 30 years of wolf management in Croatia.
Rudy Brogi
Reporting of wolf sightings: a window into the spatiotemporal distribution of people’s concerns?
Loredana McCurdy
Drones as a Potential Hazing Tool to Reduce Livestock Depredation by Wolves.
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
A * means this is a prerecorded presentation. We aim to host a live Q&A after the presentation.
13:00 - 15:00 Parallel Presentations & Movies
Themes
Co-existence in communities
Bold wolves
Wolf politics
Conflict management
Session: EU Large Carnivore Platform
Excursion Wolvencommissie Gelderland
13:00 - 13:20
13:20 - 13:40
Mari Tikkunen
Johanna Fritz
Femmie Smit
LIFE BOREALWOLF project mitigates farmers’ concerns about wolves.
Coming (too) close? The behaviour of one individual wolf requires carefully considered action.
The history and current status of the Dutch inter-provincial wolves policy plan.​​
Going Dutch: The Wolf Approach in Gelderland, the Netherlands. (You must register for this excursion on Invajo)
Jenny Glikman
Julia Kamp
The lethal removal of two bold wolves in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, as part of management guidelines.
Koen Driesen
Wolf policy in a densely populated region of Flanders.
Stefano Filacorda
Predation of wolves on domestic pet dogs: a new frontier of the humans and wolves relationship in North-East Italy.
Benjamin Kostner
Shepherds at the Crossroads: Integrating Herd Protection and Landscape Management in South Tyrol.
EU Large Carnivore Platform: Youth workshop, Understanding viewpoints
Seeing Coexistence: Environmental Rangers as Informants of Human-Wolf Interactions
Room
Earth
10 + 11
Water
Air
2 + 3
13:40 - 14:00
Carlos Javier Durá Alemañ
Land of wolves, school of shepherds: the importance of pastoral knowledge on coexistence with the wolf in Spain and Italy.
Ariana Cerreta
Robin Rigg
Is harvest creating a new wolf? Wolf behavior, sociality, and genomics.
Evaluating 50 years of wolf protection in Slovakia.
Miroslav Kutal
Testing a conservation compromise: Has public wolf hunting in Slovakia reduced livestock losses?
14:00 - 14:20
Charlotte Lorand
Close encounters with wolves: who's tiptoeing around whom?
Daniel Mallwitz
The Swedish wolf hunt – Who, why, when and how?
Maria Falkevik
Transboundary cooperation on carnivore management and wildlife crime in Fennoscandia and southern Africa – challenges and opportunities.
Oksana Grente
Spatio-temporal dynamics of attacks around deaths of wolves: A statistical assessment of lethal control efficiency in France.
14:20 - 14:40
Fabien Quétier
Glenn Lelieveld
Temple Stoellinger
Wojciech Åšmietana
Wildlife-smart communities as novel local governance models for coexistence with carnivores in Europe.
The subjectiveness of facts and feelings. Perceptions on how non-lethal mangement of bold wolves was stopped in courts
Challenges and Opportunities in Delisting Carnivores: A Comparative Study of Gray Wolves in the US and EU.
The Impact of Parental Loss on the Fate of Wolf Family Groups – Implications for Species Conservation and Population Management.
14:40 - 15:00
Martin Janovsky
Mari Tikkunen
Eric Odell *
First steps on the long road to find out if and how sheep farming on Tyrolean mountain pastures in Austria could adapt to the increasing presence of wolves.
Wolves perceive hunting dogs in their territory as rivals.
Voter Directed Wolf Restoration to Colorado, USA.: A synopsis of the process to restore wolves and the status of gray wolves in Colorado.
15:00 - 15:30
Break
A * means this is a prerecorded presentation. We aim to host a live Q&A after the presentation.
15:30 - 17:30 Parallel Workshops
Room
First in 21, then outside
Water
Outside
Earth
2 + 3
10 + 11
Ross Hinter & Hans van Eijden
How to catch wolves
Astrid Vik Stronen, Paolo Ciucci and Carsten Nowak
Wolf-dog hybridization in Europe: definition and assessment.
Peter Schütte
Katrina Masden & Valeria Salvatori
Aimee Talian & Marloes Leeflang
Erik den Boer
Construction, electrification & grounding of permanent wolf-deterrent wire fencing for sheep, cattle and horses.
EU and regional large carnivore platforms: what we've learned so far and future application.
Future of Wolves Across Borders
How to vlog while doing research
Please register for this workshop on Invajo (max. 30 participants)
17:30 - 19:30
Poster Session "Borrel"
Poster contest and drinks
19:30 - 21:30
Dinner
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