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The event “Wild Abruzzo: the spirit of untamed Italy” was held in London on October the 18th. An evening organized by The European Nature Trust (TENT) entirely dedicated to the Marsican brown bear and its conservation.

The technicians of the Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo Lazio e Molise and the Riserva Monte Genzana Alto Gizio have captured the 8-year-old bear, also known as F.129, which frequents the territory of Pettorano sul Gizio especially in autumn, to monitor her movements.

In the last days Salviamo l’Orso and Rewilding Apennines volunteers have cleaned up a large lay-by on the SR17, a road that runs along the Riserva Monte Genzana Nature Alto Gizio in the municipality of Pettorano sul Gizio, and an illegal dumping area in Sulla Villa, in the municipality of Ortona dei Marsi.

This year, Pizzone’s M2 and M6 trails have been enriched with interpretative panels dedicated to woodpeckers and mustelids, inhabitants of the Mainarde forests and the Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo Lazio e Molise, which collaborated on the initiative. We thank the volunteers for taking care of the contents, graphics and installation of this informative material, which complement..

The Apennine bear is so charismatic that it always stimulates the creation of new film products, which aim to raise awareness of the precarious condition of this extraordinary species and inspire an active participation in the conservation of one of the rarest bears in the world.

Our project is among the finalists of the call organized by EOCA European Outdoor Conservation Association for a grant of € 60,000 over 3 years.

In September, the work on the first section of the A25 was completed. The safety work will cover 87 km of highway.

Our volunteers have collected apples from a tree along the State Road SS 17 in the stretch near Castel di Sangro where on Christmas Eve 2019 a mother bear was fatally hit, leaving her cub orphaned.

A the end of September we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Salviamo l’Orso exploring the Monti Sibillini National Park, which is an expansion area of the Marsican bear, as recent reports have proved.

In 1995, the Get Bear Smart Society in the community of Whistler in British Columbia, Canada, introduced the Bear Smart Community program in order to implement a set of actions so that people and bears could coexist. The principle was a paradigm shift in people’s attitudes toward bears and other wildlife by replacing fear and..