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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Herzliche Einladung zum Vortrag!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">THE BROWN BEARS OF BULGARIA: CONSERVATION, FOLKLORE AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Svetoslava Toncheva, assoc. prof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ernst-Abbe</span>-Platz 8, R. 301<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mittwoch, den 15. <span lang="EN-GB">Mai 2024, 14-16 Uhr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Brown bears are often considered a keystone species, contributing to biodiversity and yet particularly sensitive to human influence including factors such as habitat loss and degradation, depletion of prey, persecution,
hunting etc. Their conservation is therefore considered a significant challenge in densely populated and heavily modified landscapes as those found in much of Europe. Brown bears have become an important focus of the Bulgarian conservation efforts, having
been granted protected status by the state since 1993 (Red List of Bulgaria) and later through European legislation. Although their protected status requires their habitats to be included under Natura 2000 protection, many remain outside formal protected areas,
coexisting with local communities and resulting in various forms of human-bear interactions. This lecture will focus, among other, on the increasingly stress by researchers acknowledgment of ‘the roles of culture and values in human-wildlife coexistence’ (Pooley
et al. 2017), or the so-called local or Traditional Ecological Knowledge and its role in shaping the interactions between people and nonhumans. Entailing elements of folklore beliefs, this knowledge emphasises the existence of a locally developed system of
knowledge that can serve to support effective biodiversity conservation including human-wildlife cohabitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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