On 11th November 2017, we checked what was happening with our former pupil "Mamuśka", which this spring was transported from the Wild Farm to the free living herd on the Drawsko training ground. Our female is doing very well in the wild. She quickly found herself in a new place. She successfully gav...

On 4th September 2017, a workshop organized by the Regional Directorate of State Forests together with the Forestry Research Institute took place in the Wild Farm as part of the conference "Current problems of forest protection - 2017". The workshop was attended by 100 people, divided into two group...

Kasata is a cow that came from Białowieża in 2008 as a 9-year-old, to an acclimatization farm located in the Dobrzany Forest District. Kasata from the very beginning served as the guide of the herd, which after a few months took the district at the Drawsko training ground.This cow no longer leads th...

Last Saturday – 20.05.2017, in Janczewo (Santok municipality), workshops for the local community took place. The topic of the lecture was social acceptance of bison and minimization of agricultural damage caused by these animals. The workshops were carried out within the project LIFE13 NAT/PL/000010...

We started the work of timber processing on boards for feeding rack construction. Timber is sawing by employees of the Bison Support Unit. They’ve already transformed 66 cubic meters of timber. The obtained boards will be used for the construction and repair of bison feeding racks. This year, 7 new...

During autumn and winter, 16 bison immobilisations were carried out. These treatments are conducted to replace or set a new telemetry collar. During immobilization, the animal is temporarily immobilized by pharmaceutical drugs. This helps us to safely put on a collar. In this season 2016/2017 we rep...

In the last time, two 9-month-old calves – Poducha and Pogrom left the Wild Farm. Young bison joined the wild herd in Jałowcówka Forestry. Individuals, though born in captivity, were easily adopted by the wild herd. Bison are gregarious animals, very familiar. Shortly thereafter, a 7-year-old female...

As we mentioned a few posts ago, a small herd of bison was seen in Trzcianka forest. Probably these are the bison from a herd who lives near Miroslawiec. During one observation, our employee had chance to photograph the mysterious group. As you can see the animals are in good condition. This turn of...

On 02.08.2017 r. Land Forces Training Centre organized Open Day at Drawsko Barracks. The Forest District Drawsko as befriended unit was invited to issue promotional tent State Forests. This was an excellent opportunity to present a wider group, also internationally, the current success of the projec...

Some time ago we saw bison residing in the Forestry District Trzcianka. In the place it turned out, the herd consists of 5 animals, cows, and probably wandered from the  Miroslawiec herd, which indicates that there had to be an internal split the group. This is the natural order of things, although bi...

Extremely pleased to announce the following workshops in Boz in Jabłonowo “Bison in the vicinity of military sites – implementation of the Project LIFE13 NT / PL / 000010” Diversification and development of the population of bison in north-western Poland “, where we had the opportunity to host troop...

We would like to inform you that on 9 December  2016. in the Wild Farm (Jablonowo),  the next conference of the LIFE project “Diversification and development of the European bison population in northwestern Poland” was taken place. In the event participated: the most important polish bison specialists...

One of the main tasks of the LIFE project is to buying feed for the bison, which can keep them for most of the winter near feeders in the forest . This year we bought a lot of extra food including 117 t of oats, 250 t of sugar beet and 10 t of fodder beet . The set feeders has got also hay, but it b...

Bison from Miroslawiec herd decided to visit their homeland, which are located in the Forest District Wałcz. It was there in 1980 were released the first specimens of this species reintroduction program in Western Pomerania. In time, after many wanderings animals chosen areas situated in the Forest...

Yesterday we received information with a photo of a wandering bison, who visited Gorzow Wielkopolski. Bison Emergency, after reaching the place, started observation but we did not do any action to startle the animal, because he was not already in the city. It seems that the bison is in this area for...

The next generation of bison starts to grow. Although breeding period is not over yet, so far we have seen the new calves in the herd of Mirosławiec- near 15 , herd of Drawsko- around 10 , and Jalowcówka at least 1. It is difficult to accurately estimate the amount of calves because of a few reasons...