Strengthening cooperation to improve biodiversity conservation and support peaceful coexistence between people and large carnivores.
Find practical solutions, recommendations and tested approaches to reduce conflicts with large carnivores and promote coexistence.
Explore collaborative spaces where researchers, local communities and stakeholders work together to develop and test solutions for coexistence with large carnivores. Discover experiences, activities and results from Living Labs across the Adriatic-Ionian region.
Explore the large carnivores of the Adriatic-Ionian region through species profiles, distribution maps and scientific information. Discover their habitats, ecological role and the data collected to support their conservation.
The Wildlife Sightings Map shows citizen-scientist wildlife observations from iNaturalist for four large carnivores across the project area: grey wolf, Eurasian lynx, brown bear, and golden jackal.
Because sightings come directly from the public via iNaturalist, this data reflects real-time field reports rather than the project’s scheduled monitoring surveys.
The Regional Sentiment Map shows how news media across the project area report on large carnivores — grey wolf, Eurasian lynx, brown bear, and golden jackal — and whether that coverage leans positive, neutral, or negative.
The underlying data comes from news articles gathered across the project’s partner countries: Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece.
Your observations can help protect large carnivores. Join the 4PETHABECO citizen science initiative and contribute to a better understanding of bears, wolves, lynx and golden jackals across the Adriatic-Ionian region.
Have you spotted a bear, wolf, lynx or golden jackal?
You can also record footprints, scats and other signs of presence. Every observation can provide valuable information about wildlife.
Use iNaturalist to share your findings, explore observations from other users and contribute to a growing database of large carnivore presence across the region
Every record helps researchers better understand, manage and protect large carnivores. Become part of the 4PETHABECO effort and discover wildlife together with a growing community of observers.
