Large Carnivore Education Centre LCEC, Wolf Studies and Nature Conservation in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, the Bernd Thies Foundation supports two projects of the BALKANI Wildlife Society. The Large Carnivore Education Centre is located in a small village in the Pirin Mountains in south-eastern Bulgaria. It is a meeting centre that runs children’s camps and excursions for adults and provides information about large carnivores in Bulgaria in a permanent exhibition. Bears and wolves are kept in two large enclosures.
Elena Tsingarska from the BALKANI Wildlife Society is also in charge of the project “Wolf Studies and Conservation”. Radio telemetry is used to study the use of space by wolves. In addition, the BALKANI Wildlife Society is promoting a Wolf Action Plan in Bulgaria.
- Organisation: BALKANI Wildlife Society
- Website: www.balkani.org
- Project leader: Elena Tsingarska, wildlife biologist, head of the Large Carnivore Information Centre in Vlahi