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Tibor Hartel

@thartel.bsky.social
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Conservation biology, social-ecological systems, wood-pastures, large carnivores, urban green spaces.

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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Monitoring should also capture the conditions under which conflict does not occur, rather than focusing only on conflict events themselves. Counting attacks, damage or removals alone cannot reveal the mechanisms that may prevent confrontation.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Question for researchers in Europe: do you know of cases where Open Access publication fees must go through a public procurement or tendering procedure? I’d be especially interested in concrete examples from public universities or research institutes, and how this is handled..
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Romania is set to pass a law allowing 800-900 brown bears to be shot yearly until the population falls to 4000, a figure presented as habitat carrying capacity. Scientific support is lacking for this threshold and for the claim that 4000 bears would ensure coexistence.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Final call: To broaden geographic and institutional coverage, we are seeking more responses from European researchers and professionals working on human-large carnivore coexistence. Survey: approximately 15 minutes. Reposts are warmly appreciated. tinyurl.com/3tmce2yh
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Weekdays vs weekends in our forest When more people visit (weekends), bears go almost fully nocturnal. On quieter weekdays they reclaim the daytime - active by day nearly half the time vs ~ a fifth at weekends. Coexistence works because bears do the avoiding.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nature's Engineers By rooting, wild boars turn over the soil, incorporate organic matter, create microsites for plant germination, and influence invertebrate communities.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Preparing for EUTOPIA Research Days 2026 in Gothenburg. I’ll discuss biocultural landscapes as infrastructures of wellbeing: places where biodiversity, heritage, care and community resilience meet, and where the TEK conundrum raises questions of labour, agency, entitlement and choice.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Oh yeah… now all the bear girls in the neighborhood - and the other males - will know who the new kid in town is.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This bear is communicating. By rubbing its body against the trunk, it leaves scent signals that can carry information about identity, sex or reproductive status. Such spots become real "notice boards" for bears and may be used by several individuals, year after year.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The paradox is striking: in Romania, formal institutions blame NGOs for not implementing human–bear coexistence, although NGOs do not decide public policy. NGOs are vital in democracy, not substitutes for the state. Those with decision-making power blame those without it. The bear simply walks away.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Seasonal bear fashion. We cannot be sure it is pollen, but the yellowish-green coating on its fur suggests it has spent plenty of time in flowering forests and meadows. It seems that even a bear's wardrobe adapts to its habitat. The green shirt suits it surprisingly well.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The squirrel's brief message to the researchers:
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A curious bear wandered beneath the camera and paused long enough to leave its mark. Its warm breath condensed on the lens, briefly turning the forest into a soft, misty scene. This is being "just a breath away." See the bear in the attached pic.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
First month of camera trap survey yielded 63 583 pictures.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Bear after bear in a forest road.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Love in the air.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Tree hugger bear.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
It’s the weekend, and a bear is preparing its resting place and enjoying a well-deserved siesta. Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Very happy to share that our paper, “Brown bear feeding and fencing dynamics in ancient wood-pastures: implications for coexistence in cultural landscapes”, has been accepted in Ecology and Society, a flagship journal in social-ecological systems and resilience research. #SESCARNIVORE
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Honoured to keynote at ForestConnect on climate-smart forest connectivity for large carnivores. I spoke about how social-ecological systems thinking can improve coexistence governance across Europe’s shared landscapes.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A small ask from us: if your professional work touches large carnivores anywhere in Europe (management, research, advocacy, policy, fieldwork) please consider taking our survey. We're trying to understand coexistence from a social-ecological perspective. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The cynical motto of non-implementation: “Human lives matter more than nature.” But in practice, people are not protected either. They are used as an argument against nature, while institutions fail to deliver prevention, protection and responsibility. That is not care. It is cost transfer.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
European badgers drag dry leaves, grass, and bracken into their setts with their forelegs, shuffling backwards to the entrance. Old, parasite-laden bedding is periodically hauled out and dumped nearby. This turnover reduces fleas and ticks, controls chamber humidity, and peaks in spring with cubs.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Play time.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Romania’s bear conflict is also a governance failure: EU-style prevention exists, but is poorly implemented. As conflicts grow, institutional inaction is reframed as “Europe failed” or “greens blocked solutions”. Human suffering becomes social polarization.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Wild boars (Sus scrofa) often return to certain “rubbing trees” after wallowing in mud, likely for skin care, reducing ectoparasites, and scent marking. While we sleep, the forest is active.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Strange cow in the pasture.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
What a nice family!
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Wild cat followed by domestic cat on a human made path in the forest.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A lynx recorded within our SESCARNIVORE project, in a Natura 2000 site approximately 10 km from the nearest settlement, in a cultural landscape. Its presence is a reminder of how important natural quietness, low noise levels, and minimal human disturbance are for wildlife in such habitats.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
These days I shared some camera trap pictures collected within our project. Now a short account on our website. sescarnivore.ro/blog11.html
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Wildlife activity and temporal partitioning in shared landscapes - SESCARNIVORE
Camera-trap images and footage document the use of forest roads by large carnivores, ungulates, and humans, providing evidence of temporal partitioning as a coexistence mechanism.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New post on our SESCARNIVORE site: Bringing SESCARNIVORE to Local Communities sescarnivore.ro/blog10.html?...
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
cub in the tree
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Wild cat enjoys morning. She is lovely.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One camera trap results, one forest road, 7 days. Humans, bears, deer, wolves, same landscape, different rhythms. Coexistence can happen through temporal segregation of space use. SESCARNIVORE explores these hidden temporal patterns through the lens of the social-ecological niche concept.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Cub of few months. The only one of this female.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What name would you give to this picture?
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Wild cat
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
One single wildlife camera trap in 5 days recorded these mammal species. The sensitive ones to human presence during night. The several people (rich outdoor activities and offloading) recorded not shown for confidence reasons, but will be included in analysis. SESCARNIVORE project.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Wolf, on the same track as the bear in the previous material. Camera running under our SESCARNIVORE project.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Bear captured by our camera, installed under the project SESCARNIVORE.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
'I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.' (Animals)
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hoping it brings a smile to your face, I’m sharing this moment from the family life of badgers.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New material on our site sescarnivore.ro/blog9.html
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Understanding Human–Large Carnivore Systems: Presenting the SESCARNIVORE Project - SESCARNIVORE
PI Tibor Hartel presents the SESCARNIVORE project from the field, outlining the social–ecological niche framework and the three research strands of Year 2.
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
An other one:) youtube.com/watch?v=lzrJ...
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Shared interface trail: humans and bears
YouTube video by Natură şi Oameni cu Tibi Hartel
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A glimpse in our field research and project on human-large carnivore coexistence, in English language. youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7E...
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Understanding human-large carnivore systems - presenting the project SESCARNIVORE
YouTube video by Natură şi Oameni cu Tibi Hartel
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Our final report of the Transylvanian wood-pastures project is now available in German language. It was a fantastic trip, where we met several extraordinary people, inventories wood-pastures and published nice papers. tinyurl.com/m6etve9b @luca-at-ifas.bsky.social @umweltstiftung.bsky.social
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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🫎 🐸🌳Happy to share our Perspective on how a biocultural approach can strengthen the European Natura 2000 network. Such approach may help future-proof protected areas in times of populism, environmental backsliding & land-use conflicts. With M. Jay & @thartel.bsky.social. 🔗doi.org/10.1111/conl.12958
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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New paper out in @consletters.bsky.social. We propose 5 leverage points for maintaining biodiversity in N2K sites: people, network design, monitoring, funding, and research. Nice collaboration with @plieningerlab.bsky.social and Marion Jay. Link: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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