Action Plans

This is a collection of action plans for large carnivore conservation from a Pan-European level and from various individual contries. All reports are in their original language, although some may be available in several. Some files are quite large, so please check the size before downloading if you have a slow internet connection. All files are in pdf format.

Pan European Action Plans

 

Action plan for the conservation of wolverines in Europe (Gulo gulo)

Arild Landa, Mats Lindén & Ilpo Kojola (2000)

Council of Europe Publishing, Nature and Environment # 115

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of the brown bear in Europe (Ursus arctos)

Jon E. Swenson, N. Gertsl, B. Dahle & A. Zedrosser (2000)

Council of Europe Publishing, Nature and Environment # 114

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of wolves in Europe (Canis lupus)

Luigi Boitani (2000)

Council of Europe Publishing, Nature and Environment # 113

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of the Eurasian lynx in Europe (Lynx lynx)

Urs Breitenmoser, C. Breitenmoser-Würsten, H. Okarma, T. Kaphegyi, U. Kaphegyi-Wallmann & U.M. Müller (2000)

Council of Europe Publishing, Nature and Environment # 112

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of the Iberian lynx in Europe (Lynx lynx)

Miguel Delibes, A. Rodriguez & P. Ferreras (2000)

Council of Europe Publishing, Nature and Environment # 111

 

 

Canids: Foxes, wolves, jackals and dogs: status survey and conservation action plans

English 10 MB
Wolf chapter only

English 1.8MB

 

Edited by Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Michael Hoffmann & David W. Macdonald (2004)

IUCN Canid Specialist Group

 

 

Bears: status survey and conservation action plan

European brown bear chapter only

English 4.4MB

 
 

Edited by Chris Servheen, Stephen Herrero & Bernie Peyton (1999)

IUCN Bear Specialist Group

 

 

Status and distribution of European mammals

Main report

English 11MB

Compiled by Helen J. Temple and Andrew Terry (2007)

Press release

English 0.1MB

IUCN

Extinction, the facts

English 0.3MB

 

Leaflet

English 5.3MB

 

Status summary

English 0.7MB

Guidelines on writing action plans

 

Guidelines for action plans for animal species: planning recovery

Antonio Machado (1997)

Council of Europe Publishing, Nature and Environment # 92

 
 

Drafting and implementing action plans for threatened species

(1998)

Council of Europe Publishing, Environmental Encounters # 39

 

 

  Brown bear management plans in Europe and the continental United States

  Claudia Wultich (2004)

  MSc Thesis, Zoology Institute, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria

 

Action plans for individual species and countries

 

  Living with the wolf in Germany.

  [Leben mit Wölfen Leitfaden für den Umgang mit einer konfliktträchtigen Tierart in Deutschland

 Ilka Reinhardt and Gesa Kluth (2007)

 Federal Ministry for the Environment and Nuclear Safety

 

 

  Management plan for the wolf population in Finland.

  [Suomen susikannan hoitosuunnitelma]

  (2005)

  Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 11/2005

 

 

Bears in Austria - a management plan

[Managementplan - Braunbär Österreich]

National Brown Bear Coordination Group (2005)

WWF Austria

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Latvia

Janis Ozolins (2001)

Council of Europe Bern Convention working document T-PVS (2001) 73 add 1

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of Wolf (Canis lupus) in Latvia

Janis Ozolins & Zanete Andersone (2001)

Council of Europe Bern Convention working document T-PVS (2001) 73 add 2

 

 

Lynx management plan for Croatia

[Plan upravljanja risom u hrvatskoj]

State Institute for Nature Protection (2005)

 

 

 

Wolf management plan for Croatia

[Plan upravljanja vukom u hrvatskoj]

State Institute for Nature Protection (2005)

 

 

 

Brown bear management plan for the Republic of Croatia

English 2.8 MB
Croatian xx MB
 

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management and Ministry of Culture (2005)

 

 

 

Large carnivore control and management plan for Estonia, 2002-2011

Asko Lohmus (2001)

Council of Europe Bern Convention working document T-PVS (2001) 73 add 3

 

 

Large carnivore action plans for the Dinara-Pindus range

Djuro Huber (2002)

Council of Europe Bern Convention working document T-PVS Inf (2002) 26

 

 

Conservation action plan for the golden jackal (Canis aureus) in Greece

Giorgis Giannatos (2004)

WWF - Greece

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of wolves in Italy

[Piano d'azione nazionale per la conservazione del lupo (Canis lupus)]

Piero Genovesi (2002)

Ministry of the Environment & National Wildlife Institute, Quaderni di conservazione della natura # 13

 

 

Large carnivores in Norwegian nature. [White paper on large carnivore management in Norway]

[Rovilt i norsk natur]

Proposal

Norwegian 19MB

 

Final decision

Norwegian 0.2MB

Ministry of the Environment (2003)

St. meld. nr. 15 2003-2004

 

 

Strategy for the conservation of the wolf in Spain

Wolf working group (2005)

National Commission for the Protection of Nature

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of wolverines in Sweden

[Åtgärdsprogam för bevarande av järv]

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2000, revised in 2003)

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Action Plan # 21

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of wolves in Sweden

[Åtgärdsprogam för bevarande av varg]

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2000, revised in 2003)

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Action Plan # 23

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of brown bears in Sweden

[Åtgärdsprogam för bevarande av björn]

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2000, revised in 2003)

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Action Plan # 20

 

 

Action plan for the conservation of lynx in Sweden

[Åtgärdsprogam för bevarande av lodjur]

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2000, revised in 2003)

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Action Plan # 22

 

 

Swiss lynx concept

Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forest and Landscape (2004)

 

 

 

Swiss wolf concept

Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forest and Landscape (2004)

 

 

 

Swiss bear concept

Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forest and Landscape (2004)

 

 

 

Pan Alpine Conservation Strategy for the Lynx

English 1.7MB

Anja Molinari Jobin et al. (2001)

 

Council of Europe T-PVS (2001) 42