On 4th of December 2017, at the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, an International Conference "Managing shoulder beetle outbreak in Białowieża Primeval Forest", organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences and devoted to the problem of bark beetle gradation in the Białowieża Primeval Forest was held. The participants of the conference were, among others prof. Per Angelstam (Swedish University of Agriculture), dr Simon Thorn (Julius-Maximilians University in Germany), dr Petr Doležal (Czech Academy of Sciences) and dr Pavel Mezei (Slovak Academy of Sciences). The full report from the course of the conference is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCDbAp24sk