Actions and means
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Training management actors
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Understanding needs and expectations of stakeholders
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Involving stakeholders in decision making processes
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Use of specifically trained dogs to minimize the poisoned baits problem as a serious mortality factor for bears.
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Use of specifically trained dogs to minimize bear-human conflicts through aversive conditioning of habituated and/or problem bears.
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Use of specific deterring methods for bears
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Promoting communication between dog breeders and livestock breeders
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Further development of a mixed bear emergency teams comprising personnel from the area targeted by the project.
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Public awareness campaigns for the general public
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Information campaigns for the interest groups in ways of coexistence
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Creation of a discussion platform for management actors
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Transfer of best practices between to N. Pindos National Park project personnel.
- Design of best-practice manuals for project participants and for management actors