Action Plan for Brown Bear Ursus arctos Conservation 2018-2022

The Action Plan for Brown Bear Ursus arctos Conservation 2018-2022 is a sectoral plan of Latvia. The purpose of the renewed Action Plan is to maintain a favourable status for brown bears in the Baltic population for an unlimited period of time and to achieve it in Latvia without setting a due date or specifying the minimum or maximum numbers of individuals, while ensuring the restoration of their distribution area by natural dispersal and the presence of bears as a united and functional component of the wildlife community in man-made and managed landscapes, respecting and promoting the quality of life, wellbeing and diverse societal interests. To achieve this goal, general long-term tasks that have been initiated in the previous Action Plan should be undertaken or are to be initiated and continued throughout the future conservation process, as well as short-term tasks must be carried out in the nearest future, which, once implemented, will ensure long-term conservation measures.