We are proud to announce that our Faculty is hosting Gregg Losinski, expert on coexistence of man and wildlife in the beginning of Winter Term of 2016/2017.

Gregg is the Chairman of Information & Education Subcommittee at Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, where he is part of the team of agencies that worked to delist the grizzly bear in the Yellowstone Ecosystem, and he is in charge of the committee that handles all the information and education work for grizzly bears in the lower 48 states of US. He also works in the US state of Idaho in the Department of Fish and Game. While helping with projects like deer trapping or catching poachers, he also takes pictures and video for newspaper and television.

Gregg has experience of over 20 years of education in the field of animal and wildlife protection. He not only talks to students, but also educate teachers and the general public about fish and wildlife. Gregg is also an adviser of Slovak Wildlife Society, where he has been helping to solve the problem with brown bears in the Carpathian Mountains of Europe and its coexistence with people. Mainly helping to keep the bears from getting into trouble with people by helping to create trash containers the bears can't break into.

Gregg ancestors came from the High Tatras. He has visited Slovakia several times. This time he managed to get support under the Fulbright program for specialists. During his stay at our Faculty he is expected to educate our students it the field of wildlife protection based on the north-American model. He will meet and teach our students of Ecology and Conservation of Ecosystems study program as well as Teacher Training in Biology and English students.

Regarding his experience in the field of education, wildlife protection and interpretation, Greggs stay at our Faculty will certainly be a great inspiration haw to effectively and successfully addressed similar issues related to protection and management of wildlife animals in Slovakia and Europe.