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Wednesday 4th of June
Policy & Practice

07:00 - 08:30    Breakfast

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08:30 - 09:00    European Commission - TBA

09:00 - 09:30    Arie Trouwborst - The shifting legal landscape for wolf               

                         conservation in Europe

09:30 - 10:00    Ilka Reinhart - TBA

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10:00 - 10:30    Break

*Please note that this program

is subject to change.

Last updated: 12-02-2025

10:30 - 12:00     Parallel Presentations & Sessions

Themes

Wolves and co-existence

Lessons from monitoring

Wolf management

Innovations

Session: Dealing with volatile politics, social media, misinformation, and populism

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. 

TBA

10:50 - 11:10

Catharina 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

TBA

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

Towards transboundary genetic monitoring of wolves: an online platform for harmonization and sharing of wolf genetic monitoring data across countries and laboratories. 

Juan Pablo Ramirez

The effect of legal status on wolf population dynamics. 

Maeve Rogers

TBA

A new perspective: The advantages and disadvantages of using GPS camera collars to study gray wolves. 

11:30 - 11:50

Charlotte Lorand

Close encounters with wolves: who's tiptoeing around whom? 

Josip Kusak

Chasing tail - years of wolf management in Croatia. 

Rudy Brogi

Reporting of wolf sightings: a window into the spatiotemporal distribution of people’s concerns? 

Loredana McCurdy

TBA

Drones as a Potential Hazing Tool to Reduce Livestock Depredation by Wolves. 

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 15:00     Parallel Presentations & Movies

Themes

Co-existence

Bold wolves

Wolf politics

Conflict management

Movies

13:00 - 13:20

Salvador Lyngdoh

Wolves and Communities: Co-existence and Conflict in Trans-Himalayas. 

Julia Kamp

The lethal removal of two bold wolves in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, as part of management guidelines. 

Martin Janovsky

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. 

Stefano Filacorda

TBA

Predation of wolves on domestic pet dogs: a new frontier of the humans and  wolves relationship in North-East Italy. 

13:20 - 13:40

Mari Tikkunen

Johanna Fritz

Benjamin Kostner

TBA

TBA

LIFE BOREALWOLF project mitigates farmers’ concerns about wolves. 

Coming (too) close?  The behaviour of one individual wolf requires carefully considered action. 

Shepherds at the Crossroads: Integrating Herd Protection and Landscape Management in South Tyrol. 

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

Is harvest creating a new wolf? Wolf behavior, sociality, and genomics. 

Robin Rigg 

Evaluating 50 years of wolf protection in Slovakia. 

Petter Wabakken

TBA

Wolves on the Scandinavian Peninsula: crossborder directional and long-range dispersals as the main depredation challenges. 

14:00 - 14:20

Niels Gilissen

Wolves: the uninvited guests - A nature conservation NGO facing the return of a large predator. 

Taylor Rabe

Loving Wolves to Death: Yellowstone Wolf Habituation. 

Maria Falkevik

Transboundary cooperation on carnivore management and wildlife crime in Fennoscandia and southern Africa – challenges and opportunities. 

Oksana Grente

TBA

Spatio-temporal dynamics of attacks around deaths of wolves: A statistical assessment of lethal control efficiency in France. 

14:20 - 14:40

Fabien Quétier

TBA

Wildlife-smart communities as novel local governance models for coexistence with carnivores in Europe. 

Temple Stoellinger

Challenges and Opportunities in Delisting Carnivores: A Comparative Study of Gray Wolves in the US and EU. 

Wojciech Åšmietana

TBA

The Impact of Parental Loss on the Fate of Wolf Family Groups – Implications for Species Conservation and Population Management. 

14:40 - 15:00

Koen Driesen

Wolf policy in a densely populated region of Flanders. 

Mari Tikkunen

Wolves perceive hunting dogs in their territory as rivals. 

Eric Odell

TBA

TBA

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

15:30 - 17:30     Parallel Workshops

Ross Hinter & Hans van Eijden

How to catch wolves 

Astrid Vik Stronen

Wolf-dog hybridization in Europe: definition and assessment. 

Peter Schütte

Construction, electrification & grounding of permanent wolf-deterrent wire fencing for sheep, cattle and horses. 

Katrina Masden & Valeria Salvatori

EU and regional large carnivore platforms: what we've learned so far and future application. 

Mathilde Klaasse, Glenn Lelieveld and Vera Eijsink

How to talk with press 

Erik den Boer

How to vlog while doing research

17:30 - 19:30

Poster Session

Poster contest and game

Katrina Marsden

EU Large Carnivore Platform: Youth workshop – understanding viewpoints 

19:30 - 21:30

21:30 - 22:00

22:00 - 01:00

Dinner

Evening Activity

Afterparty

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