On 20 October 2021, was held at the Conselh Generau d’Aran in Vielha, the second annual meeting – technical and administrative- of all the members of the LoupO Project (Interreg-POCTEFA). At the meeting, samples of hair and faeces were exchanged by the Spanish, Andorran and French members in the field during the year 2021 for the two genetic laboratories of the UAB and the CNRS to carry out the identification, metabarcoding and metagenomics analyzes of the samples. At the meeting, discussion also revolved around the joint database that has been created to monitor bear and wolf populations in the Pyrenees, as well as around the communication channels used to to disseminate the results of the LoupO project that will end in May 2022 .

Photograph of the meeting at the headquarters of the Conselh Generau d’Aran, in Vielha: From left to right: Isaac Castet (CGA), Joan Rodríguez (CGA), Gabriel Lampreave (GENCAT), Enrique Pérez (CGA), Natalia Sastre (UAB), Ivan Afonso (CGA), Jérôme Sentilles (OFB), Nicolás Espinós, Jordi Guillem and Xavier Garreta (FOCASA) and Clara Villar (CGA). Absent in the photo: Laura Puig (CGA). On the top-down and left-to-right screen: Marta de Barba (CNRS), Ricard Casanovas (GENCAT), Aina Sanz and Gerard Gómez (GENCAT), Francisco Fernández (FOCASA), Ramón Jato (DGA), Héctor del Val (GA), Ester Ginés (DGA), François Pompanon (CNRS). On screen not visible: Belén Gómez (UAB), Ferran Teixidor (GA), Florence Sagnimorte (CNRS). They do not attend but are informed of the content of the meeting: Santiago Palazón (GENCAT), Pierre-yves Quenette (OFB), Manuel Alcantara (CGA), Jordi Solà (GA), Olga Francino and Armand Sánchez (UAB).