Georgia is set to find out how many brown bears live in the country and assess the status of their population. To this end, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture has announced a tender for a large-scale study worth 400,000 lari.
The study aims to help specialists update data on the brown bear population, assess their conservation status, and gather new, reliable information in accordance with modern Red List criteria.
The ministry notes that the Red List is updated once every ten years. Although bears are already under constant monitoring in protected areas, obtaining a complete picture requires studying the situation outside of national parks and nature reserves as well.
According to the tender terms, the contractor must select a research methodology that will yield the most accurate and reliable data on the population status of one of Georgia’s largest predators.
