AGENDA FOR EOW-08 IN SLOVENIA, 5th - 10th October 2008 Entire programme schedule is subject to change! 1st day: Sunday, 5. Oct. 2008 Afternoon: Arrivals 2nd day: Monday, 6. Oct. 2008 8.00 ‐ 9.00 ‐ Registration 9.00 - OPENING, INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME FROM AUTHORITIES 9.00 ‐ Opening (Authority from Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning) 9.30 ‐ Welcome speech (European Coordinator of OSG/Chairman of IUCN Otter Specialist Group) 10.00 ‐ Introduction by Organizer (Lutra Institute) 10.30 ‐ Coffee break Session 1: The otter ‐ a flagship, charismatic, umbrella, keystone, indicator species? Chair: Marjana Hönigsfeld Adamič 11.00 ‐ Key speaker: Prof.Dr. Sam Erlinge: The otter ‐ the great fisher and winter bather 11.45 ‐ LIFE AQUALUTRA ‐ a project on the basis of a flagship species ‐ Marjana Hönigsfeld Adamič 12.10: Implementation of the otter in market communication ‐ Edita Gabrič, senior‐year student of marketing at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana 12.35 ‐ Overview of the Ottercentres in Europe: • Hans Heinrich Krüger (Otter‐centre Hankensbüttel) • Addy de Yongh (Aqualutra) • Marjana Hönigsfeld Adamič (Otter‐centre AQUALUTRA under construction) 13.35 ‐ 14.00: Discussion 14.00 ‐ 15.30: LUNCH break 15.30 ‐ 18.00: Drops of Science ‐ Workshop for Teachers and Students in Slovenia (Dr. Gregor Torkar, LUTRA Institute): Otter as a flagship species in the school. alternatively 15.30 ‐ poster session alternatively 15.30 ‐ Movies about otters (Slovenia, Italy, Check Republic) 18.00 ‐ Otter Social Evening: short introduction of every participant, countries, national representatives with some characteristics of every country; emphasis on recruitment and introduction of new members and countries. Cultural event for ice‐breaking. Dinner hosted by mayor of Community Moravske Toplice 3rd day: Tuesday, 7. Oct. 2008 9.00: Session 2: Chair: Axel Bo Madsen Bjarne Søgaard: Conservation Status of the European Otter Lutra lutra in EU/Europe 2007 - An overview based on the Article 17 reporting of the Habitats Directive 10.30 - Coffee break 11.00 - Workshop: reports and comments on conservation status in each country 14.00 - 15.30 : LUNCH break 15.30 Session 3: Chair: Lukaš Polednik Workshop: NATURA 2000 - OHNE NETWORK - CORRIDORS - A coherent European ecological network of special areas of conservation: - OHNE (Henry Krüger) - CORRIDORS (Andreas Kranz) - NATURA 2000 (Lukas Polednik) 17.30: Coffee break 18.00: Economy in nature conservation, with particular regard to the otter with a case study - Sašo Kešeljevič, Edita Gabrič Evening: free or organized otter‐watching (for limited number of participants) 4th day: Wednesday, 8. Oct. 2008 Session 4: GENETICS AND CONSERVATION Chair: Hugh Jansman 9.00 - Assessment of otter population size: non invasive genetic sampling and snow tracking - Petra Hajkova, Barbora Zemanova, Kevin Roche & Bedrich Hajek 9.20 - Reintroduction of the otter: hidden life revealed by non-invasive genetic monitoring - Hugh Jansman, Hans Peter Koelewijn, Loek Kuiters & Dennis Lammertsma 9.40 - An attempt to characterize the otter population in the Landscape Park Goričko using DNA fingerprinting - Hana Jontez, Simona Sušnik, Jakob Smole, Marjana Hönigsfeld Adamič and Peter Dovč 10.00 - Otter Studbook report - Addy de Jongh 10.50 - Discussion 11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break Session 5 : Miscellaneus Chair: Margarida Santos Reis 11.45 - Otter's back to Schwitzerland! How long for? - Jean-Marc Weber, Ueli Iff 12.05 - Road mortality and permeability for otters (Lutra lutra) in a Mediterranean region - Margarida Santos-Reis, Clara Grilo, Fernando Ascensão, Ana Rita Mateus & Ana Marta Serronha 12.25 - Developing a coordinated European system for the collection of data on otter road casualties - Laura Bonesi 12.45 ‐ Otter necropsies - Hugh Jansman 13:00 - Discussion 13.15 - 14.30 : LUNCH break Afternoon: Sightseeing of Goričko (Landscape Park, Natura 2000 site, project area of LIFE-NATURA project for otter conservation). 16.00: Guided visit of the castle 17.00: Opening of the Exhibition LIFE‐AQUALUTRA on otter in the Castle Grad (Goričko) with cultural programme 19.00: A dinner hosted by Landscape Park Goričko 5th day: Thursday, 9. Oct. 2008 Session 6: HABITATS ASSESSMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS Chair: Andreas Kranz 9.00: Loading and Pollution in Freshwater Ecosystems – Ecological Point of View - Prof. Dr. Mihael Toman (Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana) 9.40: Assessing the impact of dam implementation on otters: the cases of Alqueva (SE Portugal) and Sabor (NE Portugal) dams - Nuno Miguel Pedroso, Teresa Sales-Luís, Filipa Loureiro and Margarida Santos-Reis 10.00: Migration corridors, habitat assessment and management for the otter in the North of Luxembourg and the South of Belgium - Gérard Schmidt, Aurore Boscher, Hélène Ghyselinck, Yves Krippel, Christine Leclercq, Lionel L’Hoste, Mireille Molitor, Sven Plattes, Eva Rabold, Anne Scheer, Alain Dohet 10.20: Assessing trends in otter Lutra lutra populations: range edge surveys and occupancy/detectability models - Manlio Marcelli, Romina Fusillo 10.40 - Coffee break 11.10: The Water Framework Directive and the conservation of the European otter - Anna Loy, Susanna D’Antoni, Michela Gori 11.30: Improvement of otter habitats in the area of Goričko with ecoremediation - Danijel Vrhovšek, Alenka Šajn Slak and Marjana Hönigsfeld Adamič 11.50: Behavioural Ecology of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) in Alentejo, Southern Portugal: Background, Objectives and Preliminary Results of an ongoing project Lorenzo Quaglietta, Antόnio Mira and Luigi Boitani 12.10: Concentrations of PCBs and their metabolites and some pesticides in otter (Lutra lutra) scats from two areas of Sweden ‐ Gerd Jacobsson, Anna Roos, Mia Bisther and Maria Athanasiadou 12.30: Discussion 13.00 ‐ 14.30 : LUNCH break Afternoon: Sightseeing of Goričko (Eastern part) Evening: OSG meeting with preparation of results and recommendations of EOW‐08 or Organized otter‐watching (for limited number of participants) 6th day: Friday, 10. Oct. 2008 Session 7: Closing plenary session: conclusions and discussion Chair: Jim Conroy (chait of the IUCN/SSC/OSG) 9.00: Speech of coordinator of EU IUCN/SSC/OSG with plenary presentation of recommendations and conclusions of the meeting; discussion 12.00: Press conference 13.00 - LUNCH 14. 00 Afternoon: Sightseeing of LIFE‐NATURA sites and the site of Otter Centre in Goričko. Evening: Dinner with entertainment programme given by mayor of the Community Gornji Petrovci 7th day: Saturday, 11. Oct. 2008 8.00: Whole-day excursion across Natura 2000 sites in NE Slovenia (with otter as a qualifying species): Polanski log, River Mura and Murska šuma. Closing dinner in Prlekija with degustation of wines ![]() ![]() |
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Izdelava: 3arh d.o.o. | Oblikovanje: Zvone Kosovelj | Ilustracije: Ueli Iff
©Lutra, Ljubljana 2008