The aim of this international working seminar on brown bear rehabilitation (October 2021) was to exchange knowledge and information between different agents involved in brown bear conservation on the different aspects and phases related to bear rehabilitation in order to establish a network of communication and collaboration between them.
It took place from 6 to 8 October 2021 at Casa del Oso in Proaza (Asturias). It was attended by 37 participants related to the rehabilitation of brown bears. There were 12 presentations and two practical workshops during the three days of the event which ended with a visit to the facilities and enclosures of the Fundación Oso de Asturias.
Speeches
Melina Avgerinou (Arcturos)
Brown bear rehabilitation in Greece
Ángela Ruiz (FOA)
Interventions in brown bears with problems in the Cantabrian Mountain Range
Orencio Hernández and Álvaro Oleaga (Government of the Principality of Asturias)
The case of Lara: story of a reintroduction
María Ángeles Osorio y Daniel Pinto (Government of Castilla y León).
Acclimatization facilities for brown bears of Junta de Castilla y León in the Valsemana estate.
Manena Fayos (Government of Cantabria)
Care and rehabilitation of brown bears in the Wildlife Recovery Centre of Cantabria.
Julien Steinmetz (Francia)
Experience in France
Iván Afonso (Conselh Generau d`Aran)
Bear rehabilitation in Catalonia. The case of Auberta (2014). New infrastructure for the rehabilitation of the Aran Valley
Noa González (FOA)
The FOA experience. Work approaches and facilities. The case of Yernes (bear cub).
Antonio Rivas (Tragsatec Parks. El Acebuche Iberian Lynx Breeding Centre)
Management and monitoring of Iberian lynxes in captive breeding centres.
Ignacio Jiménez (FOA)
Do rehabilitated and rehabilitated young brown bears behave normally? Reference frames of wild bears.
David Nieto
Developmental stages of cognition and learning in mammals cubs.
Esther Valderrábano (Marcelle Naturaleza)
Prevention of emerging diseases in rehabilitated bears.
Bibliography on rehabilitation
Workshops
1. Rehabilitation issues and their importance in developing protocols.
2. Case scenarios of troubled bears and how to deal with them. Individual and group work.
