BEAR in Mind project combines different methods and activities in order to empower and develop capacities of protected areas (PA) administrations and environmental NGOs in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina and to improve the level of participation of environmental NGOs in policy-making processes, as well as to overcome the administrative boundaries of the countries and implement a new joint management approach that would not only reduce numerous threats to these ecosystems, but also promote the values of European protection standards through implementation of respective biodiversity monitoring while promoting benefits for the inhabitants of surrounding municipalities and Pas.