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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

I have a scientific manuscript, and would like to publish in an OA journal. So, how the above applies in this case? Do you have academic institution examples dealing with such a problem and how they managed it?

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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

They know that the strategy will fail, as there is no evidence that would function. The blame is prepared: “too late”, NGOs, the EU. This is precisely why policy needs explicit assumptions, measurable outcomes, and evaluation before and after intervention.

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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The logic resembles: “It may be too late, but try this warm horse-manure remedy.” If the patient dies or illness get worse: “We warned you it was too late.” A policy protected from failure by its own excuse is not evidence-based management.

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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Since around 2018-2019, advocates of population reduction have also warned that it may already be “too late”. Yet Băile Tușnad subsequently reduced bear alerts through sustained local action. Context and intervention design matter, although the national proposal largely ignores both.

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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

Around 50 experts have already contributed. Many thanks to them. We hope to broaden the panel further across European regions and institutions before closing the survey. Every additional eligible response and repost helps.

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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

Preliminary results from 14 camera traps.

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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 · 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 few notes: 30–50 responses per country with large carnivores would be ideal, so sharing within your networks would be a huge help. We'll do our best to deliver a careful analysis and interpretation, and of course share the results back with the community. Thank you very much!

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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

Institutions had the money, the legal framework, and the time. They had the tools to prevent many of today's conflicts. That the suffering of affected communities is now used as an argument against prevention (instead of the strongest argument for it) is their failure, not the approach's.

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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A dangerous populist move is to misinform and incite the very people harmed by institutional inaction. It builds on vulnerability and hopelessness, redirects pain into anger, and turns failed prevention into a weapon against “greens” and coexistence.

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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 · 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

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

Wild cat enjoys morning. She is lovely.

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Tibor Hartel @thartel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Wildlife adjusts its activity to avoid humans, including illegal off-road vehicles moving through forests in Romania.

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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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