Rok was the last bear equipped with a telemetry collar in the frame of LIFE DINALP BEAR project. He was captured and fitted with a radio-collar at the end of May 2019 and for two years the collar was sending the GPS locations of his movements.

He stayed mainly on the forested plateau “Trnovski gozd”, where he most frequently kept to its northern edge and central parts. He occupied an area of 320 km2. In the south, he came all the way to the southern edge, but never descended to the Vipava valley. In the east he reached Otlica, and in the west almost the settlement of Banjšice. Occasionally he wandered to the Banjšica plateau and towards the Idrija hills.

Rok is a mountaineer that descended the lowest to 230 m above the sea level, but otherwise remained well above 500 m above sea level. He crossed the Čepovan valley several times. He also spent a lot of time at the points of anthropogenic influence: at three feeding sites. He spent the coldest weeks of both winters on the steep slopes of the northern edge of the Trnovski gozd.

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