EU Platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores

In June 2014, an agreement of the EU Platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores​was was signed between different stakeholders in Brussels. This agreement was also signed by the Reindeer Herders’ Association together with Swedish reindeer herders.

Agreement June 2014 - coexistence between people and large carnivores

The mission of the Platform is to promote ways and means to minimise, and wherever possible find solutions to, conflicts between human interests and the presence of large carnivore species, by exchanging knowledge and by working together in an open-ended, constructive, and mutually respectful way.

– ELO European Landowners’ Organisation

– Joint representatives of Finnish and Swedish Reindeer Herders

– FACE European Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation

– CIC The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation

– IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature

– WWF World Wide Fund for Nature

– EUROPARC Federation