The Bear Fund works to support the Central Apennines rewilding area’s “Bear Smart Communities”. To be classified as “bear smart”, such communities – which are all located within wildlife corridors – have to follow best practice coexistence principles and employ a range of measures to minimise potential conflict with bears.

Your donation helps to fund a number of important rewilding measures in the Central Apennines rewilding area. These are supporting the recovery of the area’s endangered Marsican brown bear population by promoting coexistence in a network of five wildlife corridors that the Rewilding Apennines team is currently developing.