Applied HD - lynx and wolverines in Europe

Last week Alistair, our Human Dimensions Team Leader, was teaching once again at the Technical University of Munich in the international sustainable resource management program in Germany where he has taught for the past 18 years and holds an Adjunct Professor role there. What made his latest visit unique though, were some extra days spent in the field meeting with hunters, farmers and the biologists behind the lynx project in the Hartz Mountains. Alistair saw roe deer recently killed by Eurasian lynx, lynx scat and a video of the lynx from the farmer shot the day before. The lynx still has evaded Alistair but the project has just begun!

Didn't take long to have Alistair back in the air again. This week he is in Norway listening to mayors of counties, government officials, WWF Norway, farmers, hunters and biologists to identify the key issues regarding wolverine management and gauge the interest from three Scandinavian countries to work together toward a common wolverine strategy. Workshop is scheduled for March 2020 so stay tuned to see if consensus again can be reached with his Applied Human Dimensions Facilitated Workshop Approach.

Alistair with the Hartz Moutnains Lynx team in Germany are working with hunters and farmers to finds ways to better work towards lynx conservation.