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Institute of Wildlife Management and
Vertebrate Zoology
 The independent Department of Wildlife Management was
founded in 1969 – at the then called University of
Forestry and Wood Sciences – which has been operating as
Institute of Wildlife Management since 1998. The
Wildlife Management Institute provides university
education and research, the high level of work is based
on the professional skills of the lecturers and
researchers working there. At the Institute there are 7
lecturers working full time - 2 professors, 4 associate
professors, 1 assistant professor -, 1 engineer, 1
secretary and 6 research workers with a higher
educational degree. Further there are 3 PhD students,
who study full time, assisting at the institute and the
co-ordinator of the Hungarian Great Bustard- LIFE
programme is also working there. Since there are several
research programs going on at the institute, territorial rapporteurs are essential at different parts of the
country, about 30 experts are assisting in the research
work. Research done at the Institute can be grouped
around three main topics, such as big game management,
small game management and nature conservation. At the
Institute of Wildlife Management research is done in the
following thematic areas:
Big game research:
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Ecological conditions of big game management in
open areas
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Research on big game breeding ecology
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Ecological impact of supplementary feeding of big
game
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Ecological and economic rationalization of red
deer management
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National monitoring network on the impact of
browsing
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Complex ecological examination of wild boar
hunting parks
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Establishing and operating cadastres of farms and
hunting parks of big game
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Examination of age, home
range, habitat use and feeding of fallow deer
Small game research:
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Hungarian partridge conservation programme
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Small game populations in agricultural areas in
Hungary
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Hungarian water-game monitoring
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Game mortality in Hungary – Hungarian game
mortality monitoring
Nature conservation research:
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Ecological investigation of the great bustard
(Otis tarda) population on the Little Plain (Kisalföld)
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The feeding of cormorants and grey herons in
protected and not protected habitats
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Relationships of bird communities and habitat
structures
Today high level education and
research is inconceivable without national and
international connections. Owing to several research
programmes, the Institute has established excellent
connections with the Game Management and Fishery
Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development, the State forest Service, the forestry
companies,
the Hungarian Hunters’ National Chamber,
The Hunters’ Defence Association, the Nature
Conservation Office of the Ministry of Environment and
Water Conservancy and the Directorates of the National
Parks. Beside domestic connections, the institute has
connections abroad as well, in Canada, Germany, France,
Slovenia, Austria, the UK, Cyprus and in many other
European countries. The research experience and the
professional skills of the lecturers at the Institute,
the excellent technical background guarantee high level
research work and results, which provide valuable
information for wildlife management and forestry in
Hungary and abroad.
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