🎉What an exceptional Wolves Across Borders 2025!🐾

🥳 We would like to thank all participants for making this week a powerful gathering of minds and passions!🌎

Insightful presentations and lively discussions led to the sharing of new knowledge and the exploration of critical issues🐺

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We had many workshops this past week 🌎

Including some hands-on ⛏️ workshops outside on building wolf-deterrent wire fences and capture methods.

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We had two post conference walks, to Radio Kootwijk and the sanddrift ! 🐺

Participants went out finding tracks 🐾, learning about the local history and current wolf pack in the area. They also visited a local shepherd that is keeping a herd of sheep at Hoog Buurlo🐑👨‍🌾

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🔊 Is the concept of problematic behaviour of wolves an ecological or cultural debate?

An interesting discussion going on between our panelists Ilka Reinhardt, Valeria Salvatori, Dries Kuijper and Josip Kusak, moderated by John Linell.

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This morning, @glennlelieveld.bsky.social talked to us about the challenges of living with wolves in the Netherlands: Europe's most densely populated country 🐺

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Valeria Salvatori gave a very topical presentation on bold wolves and how to deal with them 🐺

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The last day of WAB starts off with Paolo Ciucci who is reflecting on population abundance versus the quality of wolf conservation 🐺

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Panelists Maria Falkevik,
Cassiopeia Camara,
Claudio Sillero, Fridolin Zimmermann, Pepijn T'Hooft and Arie Trouwborst are discussing the wolf debate within
dynamic politics, misinformation and
social media 🐺
@glennlelieveld.bsky.social

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And now we're hearing from lawyer Arie Trouwborst on the legal landscape of wolf conservation in Europe 🐺

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Next up is Ilka Reinhardt on the political versus biological wolf 🐺

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We're off this morning with The power of words in human-wildlife conflict 🐾

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Our keynote speaker Dave Mech gave a great presentation this morning about Wolves on the hunt: the basics 🐺

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🐺 Share your WAB story with our official Hashtag 🐺

🌎 And we're off with the Wolves Across Borders conference 2025 edition 🐺

Looking forward to see you all here and online !

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📢The preliminary program for the second international WAB conference is here! 🐺

Check out the day-by-day program here: www.wolvesacrossborders.com/preliminary-...

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🚨Wolves Across Borders is on Bluesky! 🐺

The next international conference is coming soon!

When: 2 - 6 June 2025
Where: Lunteren, the Netherlands

Check out the details on our website: www.wolvesacrossborders.com

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