Bilgin Lab of Biodiversity and Conservation

 

Department of Biology

Middle East Technical University

 

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Hüseyin Ambarlı studies brown bears (Ursus arctos) in northeastern Turkey. He is currently busy trying to understand the spatial ecology, resource use and status of a bear population in Yusufeli, Artvin (Turkey) for his  Ph.D. He also works for the Kaçkar Project since 2008.

In previous years, he carried out a spatial and temporal analysis of human-brown bear conflicts at Yusufeli and got his M.Sc. in 2006. Below are pictures showing him capture and radio-collar a bear for the first time in Turkey. During this project and the follow-up that involved introduction of new methods on wildlife damage prevention, he received support from Wildlife Conservation Society and Alertis, respectively.

 

 

On September 8th, Hüseyin has succeeded to capture, tranquilize and radio collar a wild bear at Yusufeli (Artvin) - a first for Turkey (click for a bigger picture).

Publications

Ambarlı, H. & Bilgin, C.C. (2008) Human-Brown Bear Conflict in Artvin, Northeastern Turkey: Encounters, Damage and Attitudes. Ursus 19(2): 146-153


 

Last updated 25 September 2005