Bear camera with innovation share

Promoters of nature tourism make bear cameras in East Viru County with the money from the innovation share to show Estonia’s biggest carnivore for all to see in a live stream.
“The bear is the only big carnivore present in Estonia,” Rein Kuresoo says, whose company, Natourest, organises nature, bird and animal observations in Estonia, primarily for foreigners. “You may find the tracks of a wolf and you may hear it also, but it is practically impossible to see it,” Kuresoo continues. “Let alone a lynx.” Kuresoo’s new project is related to bears, and it consists of the development of a bear observation service in East Viru County, supported by 15,977 euros innovation share of Enterprise Estonia. Put simply, we are talking about making a so-called bear camera.

There are about 700 bears in Estonia; the same number of bears are found in Finland but they are spread over a much wider area. If one were to draw a notional line from East Viru County to Pärnu County, diagonally through Estonia, that region could be called the Estonian bear area.

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