Wolves and bears living in Poland cannot assert their rights themselves. They have no way of reacting when trees are being cut down and their refuges or places where their young hide are being destroyed.

However, people can react. That is why the European Bison Fund (Polish: Fundusz Żubra) and the Natural Heritage Foundation (Polish: Fundacja Dziedzictwo Przyrodnicze) are joining forces to protect them. Naturalists, lawyers and experts stand together to defend animal rights.

"The European Bison Fund has decided to support a project of the Natural Heritage Foundation called ‘Wild Emergency’. The project focuses on intervening in crisis situations for wolves and bears, including logging around refuges, conflict with humans, or illegal hunting," reads the website funduszzubra.pl.

The European Bison Fund activists report that two crisis situations have occurred in recent years: the shooting of two young wolf cubs in the Podkarpacie region and the cutting down of trees in the Bieszczady Mountains near bears’ lairs. All unlawfully and without expert assessment. It is precisely these types of incidents that the Natural Heritage Foundation and the European Bison Fund want to fight together.

"The Foundation’s team aims to strengthen the protection of the wolf in the Carpathian Forest and to protect bears’ lairs in the Bieszczady Mountains. A team of biologists, lawyers, journalists is involved in the work on the project. At the same time, for several years the Natural Heritage Foundation has been calling for the creation of intervention groups that would be able to professionally resolve conflicts between large predators and humans," we read on publicystyka.ngo.pl.

Activists fighting for wild animals’ rights report all incidents involving confrontations between wolves and humans resulted from inappropriate human behaviour as there is a lot of false information circulating about wolves. Tourists are frightened by stories of aggressive and bloodthirsty packs just waiting to attack someone.

"According to experts, it is crucial to maintain strict species protection for the wolf in order to keep their numbers safe. Wolves care for the balance in nature by relieving hunters of managing the populations of other animal species," publicystyka.ngo.pl reports.

The European Bison Fund has been fighting for animal rights for five years. During this time, its employees managed to buy specialised equipment for the Białowieża National Park, namely a supercomputer, i.e. modern equipment using artificial intelligence to process data from detectors installed in the forest. The activists also built specialised towers for bats.

"During last year's campaign, the European Bison Fund supported the Natural Heritage Foundation, contributing to the registration of another 50 conservation zones that serve as micro-reserves and securing 15 hectares of eternal forests in north-eastern Poland," reads publicystyka.ngo.pl.

Source: publicystyka.ngo.pl, fundacjazubra.pl