June, 17th

 

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

 

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and institutional greetings:

 

Antonino Amorosi - Major of Lama dei Peligni

Franco Iezzi - President of the Majella National Park

Oremo Di Nino - Director of the Majella National Park 

 

Life Coornata Project results presentation

 

09:30 - 09:45 Introduction to the Life Coornata Project

Teodoro Andrisano, Majella National Park 

 

09:45 - 10:00 Environmental Ministry and Superior Institute for the Environmental Research and Protection (ISPRA)

Franceso Riga, ISPRA

 

10:00 -10:30 The Apennine chamois in the Majella National Park, from a reintroduced population to a source population: results of monitoring activity and first experiences of wild chamois captures for reintroductions

Giovanna Di Domenico, Majella National Park 

 

10:30 - 11:00 The Apennine chamois in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, from a reintroduced population to a source population: results of monitoring activity and first experiences of wild chamois captures for reintroductions

Laura Scillitani, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park

 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

 

11:30 - 12:00 The Apennine chamois reintroduction in the Sibillini National Park: population monitoring and status at six years from the reintroduction beginning

Alessandro Rossetti, Monti Sibillini National Park

 

12:00 - 12:30 The constitution of the first Apennine chamois nucleus in the Sirente Velino Natural Park, from the preliminary actions to the monitoring of released individuals

Paola Morini, Sirente Velino Natural Park

 

12:30 - 13:00 Potential threats to the historical autochtonous Apennine chamois population in the Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise National Park: analysis, valuation and management implications 

Alessandro Asprea, Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise National Park

 

13:00 - 13:30 Health surveillance and implementation of special prophylaxis programs for domestic ungulates in the Parks interested by the presence of the Apennnine chamois

Umberto Di Nicola, Life coornata veterinary staff

 

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch break

 

15:00 - 15:30 Parasitological survey of the Apennine chamois populations of the Majella, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga and Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise National Parks

Luca Rossi, University of Torino, Italy

 

15:30 - 16:00 Haemato-biochemical parameters and stress markers in the Apennine chamois 

Roberto Viganò, University of Milano, Italy

 

16:00 - 16:30 Analysis of Apennine chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata) mortality within the Life Coornata Project

Jorje Ramón López Olvera, SEFaS, Wildlife Health Service, Spain

 

16:30 - 17:00 Communication, results dissemination and developing of educational programs to favour the biodiversity conservation: the case of the Life Coornata Project

Stefano Raimondi, Legambiente O.N.L.U.S.

 

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break

 

17:30 - 18:30 Life Coornata Documentary Projection

 

 

June, 18th

 

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

 

The Genus Rupicapra: an overview - Keynote speaker: Sandro Lovari

 

09:00 - 09:40 The evolutionary biology of chamois: old views, new insights and grey areas

Sandro Lovari, Italy

 

Sandro Lovari (1), Francesco Ferretti (1)

 

(1) Department of Life Sciences - University of Siena, Italy

 

09:40 - 10:10 Biogeography of chamois. What different molecular markers can tell us

Trinidad Pérez, Spain

 

Trinidad Pérez (1), Fernando Rodríguez (2), Sabine Essler (3), Borja Palacios (4), Jesús Albornoz (1), Ana Domínguez (1).

 

(1) Department of Functional Biology (Genetics) - University of Oviedo, Spain

(2) Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA

(3) Institute of Immunology - University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna, Austria.

(4) Parque Nacional Picos de Europa, Spain.

 

Session I: Status and ecology of chamois subspecies - Chairman and keynote speaker: Juan Herrero

 

10:10 - 10:50 Monitoring and management of Pyrenean chamois in Aragon

R. p. pyrenaica

Juan Herrero, Spain

 

Juan Herrero (1), José Luis Alarcón (2), Emilio Escudero (2), Olatz Fernández (3), Ricardo-García-González (4),

Alicia García-Serrano (3), Pilar Jimeno (1), Carlos Prada (3)

 

(1) University of Zaragoza, Spain

(2) Government of Aragon, Spain

(3) Ega Wildlife Consultants, Spain

(4) Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC), Spain

 

10:50 - 11:20 Rupicapra pyrenaica parva: history and story  

Carlos Nores, Spain

 

Natural Resources and Land Planning Institute (INDUROT), University of Oviedo, Spain

 

11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break

 

11:50 - 12:20 Some teachings drawn from the spatial monitoring of marked chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica pyrenaica) in the protected population of the Pyrenees National Park

Jean-Paul Crampe, France

 

Jean-Paul Crampe (1), Patrick Caens (1) , Etienne Florence (1)

 

(1) Parc National des Pyrénées, France

 

12:20 - 12:50 Mating behaviour in Alpine chamois: current knowledge and future perspectives

R. r. rupicapra

Luca Corlatti, Italy

 

Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna, Austria

 

12:50 - 13:20 Life is a risky business: status and conservation perspectives of the last ancient population of endemic Apennine chamois Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata

Roberta Latini, Italy

 

Roberta Latini (1), Leonardo Gentile (1), Alessandro Asprea (1), Davide Pagliaroli (1), Vincenza Di Pirro (1), Adriano Argenio (1), Andrea Monaco (2)

 

(1) Abruzzo Lazio e Molise National Park , Italy

(2) ARP:  Agenzia Regionale Parchi Regione Lazio, Italy

 

13:20 - 15:00 Lunch break

 

15:00 - 15:30 Conservation management of Balkan chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra balcanica) in Greece 

Haritakis Papaioannou, Greece

 

Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management - University of Patras, Greece

 

15:30 - 16:00 Balkan chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra balcanica) in Bulgaria - mapping and defining the conservation status of the subspecies

Kostadin Valchev, Bulgaria

 

Balkani Wildlife Society

 

16:00 - 16:30 Tatra chamois at its top - story of 145 years of protection

R. r. tatrica

Tomasz Zwijacz Kozica, Poland

 

Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica (1), Barbara Chovancová (2) , Filip Zięba (1)

 

(1) Tatra National Park, Poland

(2) Tatra National Park, Slovakia

 

16:30 - 17:00 Status and management of Anatolian chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra asiatica): implications for conservation

Huseyin Ambarli, Turkey

 

Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management - Duzce University, Turkey

 

17:00 - 17:30 Conservation and ecology of chamois in Georgia

R. r. caucasica 

Zurab Gurielidze, Georgia

 

Zurab Gurielidze (1,2), Natia Kopaliani (1)

 

(1) Institute of Ecology - Ilia State University, Georgia

(2) Tbilisi zoo, Georgia

 

17:30 - 18:00 Coffee break

 

18:00 - 18:30 Final discussion and conclusions

 

18:30 - 19:30 Poster session

 

 

June, 19th

 

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

 

Session II –The role of reintroductions in chamois conservation - Chairman and keynote speaker: Pritpal Soorae

 

09:00 - 09:40 Guidelines for reintroductions and other conservation translocations and their role in ungulate and mountain ecosystems

Pritpal Soorae, United Arab Emirates

 

IUCN Re-introduction Specialist Group

 

09:40 - 10:10 Reintroduction of Balkan chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra balcanica) in Vitosha Nature Park, Bulgaria

Simeon Arangelov Arangelov, Bulgaria

 

Balkani Wildlife Society

 

10:10 - 10:40 Introduction of Tatra chamois to the Nízke Tatry Mountains

Peter Bačkor, Slovakia

 

Department of Biology and Ecology - University of Matej Bel, Slovakia

 

10:40 - 11:10 The reintroduction of the Apennine chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata): the story of a successful conservation action

Franco Mari, Italy

 

Franco Mari (1), Antonio Antonucci (1), Leonardo Gentile (2), Paola Morini (3), Alessandro Rossetti (4), Federico Striglioni (5)

 

(1) Majella National Park, Italy

(2) Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise National Park, Italy

(3) Sirente Velino Natural Park, Italy

(4) Monti Sibillini National Park, Italy

(5) Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, Italy

 

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

 

11:40 - 12:10 A 25 years long story of Cartusiana chamois: what about the output of the restoration plan?

R .r. cartusiana

Jacques Michallet, France

 

Jacques Michallet (1), Jean Louis Dufresne (2) and Bernard Michallet (3)

 

(1) Office national de la chasse et de la Faune sauvage (France)

(2) Fédération départementale des chasseurs de l’Isère

(3) Groupement d’intérêt cynégétique de Chartreuse

 

12:10 - 12:40 Chamois reintroduction in the Oriental Mountain of Cantabria, north of Spain: a ten-year experience of a non-profit private organization

R. p. parva

Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre, Spain

 

Session III- Threats and conservation - Chairman and keynote speaker: Marco Festa-Bianchet

 

12:40 - 13:20 Evolutionarily sustainable management of chamois and other mountain ungulates

Marco Festa-Bianchet, Canada

 

Department of Biology - University of Sherbrooke, Canada

 

13:20 - 15:00 Lunch break

 

15:00 - 15:30 The chamois in Romania and in the Piatra Craiului National Park - evolutions and changing after hunting ban in National Parks

R. r. carpatica 

Mircea Verghelet, Romania

 

Mircea Verghelet (1), Ovidiu Ionescu (2)

 

(1) Piatra Craiului National Park 

(2) Transylvania University in Brasov, Romania

 

15:30 - 16:00 Diseases of Rupicapra spp. at the interface with livestock and other ungulates

Luca Rossi, Italy

 

University of Torino

 

16:00 - 16:30Alpine chamois population dynamics: the role of infectious diseases 

Bruno Bassano, Italy

 

Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy

 

16:30 - 17:00 Diseases affecting Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica pyrenaica) populations

Jorje Ramón López Olvera

 

SEFaS, Wildlife Health Service, Spain

 

17:00 - 17:30 Seasonal habitat displacement of chamois by red deer in the Swiss National Park?

R. r. rupicapra

Pia Anderwald, Switzerland

 

Pia Anderwald (1), Ivar Herfindal (2), Rudolf M. Haller (1), Anita Risch (3), Martin Schütz (3), Flurin Filli (1)

 

(1) Swiss National Park, Switzerland

(2) Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

(3) Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL,  Switzerland

 

17:30 - 18:00 Genetic variability at adaptive and neutral markers in the endangered tatric chamois subspecies

R. r. tatrica

Serena Cavallero, Italy

 

Cavallero S. (1), Vichova B. (2), Chovancová B.(3), Paule L. (4), Snabel V. (2), D’Amelio S. (1)

 

(1) Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

(2) Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

(3) Tatra National Park Research Centre, Slovakia

(4) Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia

 

18:00 - 18:30 Coffee break

 

18:30 - 18:45 Introduction to the Rupicapra  International Group

Luca Corlatti, Italy