BUILDING A REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL NETWORK IN THE CARPATHIANS, BASED ON KEY HABITATS FOR LARGE CARNIVORE (WOLVES, BEARS AND LYNX)

The project, financed by the PIN MATRA program, is a Romanian-Dutch cooperation aiming to design a GIS map and a management plan that support the implementation of an Ecological Network in the Romanian Carpathians, as a first step for the Natura 2000 Network implementation in Romania. In this respect, based on the existing Romanian situation and on our experience in wildlife research, we will use for the network design the key habitats for large carnivore (wolves, bears and lynx). As a continuation of the project we con-sider that this network could be extended to a diverse list of Romanian wildlife species