Dear LIFE Lynx followers, fresh from the printers and on our webpage you can check out our second LIFE Lynx project bulletin. In the year 2020, the LIFE Lynx project reached a halfway point and we are reflecting on our achievements, especially those we are most proud of. In Focus, you can discover how the teams from each of the five project countries are working towards our common objectives, each in its own unique way. Our main goal...
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In the beginning of March 2021, a female lynx Petra was captured in Kočevsko and equipped with GPS-collar. After few weeks, first results from the telemetry tracking are now available. We found out that Petra is still accompanied with a kitten born in 2020 and that she is hunting successfully. We have set cameras at one of her last kill sites and we recorded Petra feeding on roe deer. When she finished feeding, her kitten arrived and...
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On March 20, LIFE Lynx project researchers fitted with a telemetry collar another resident female lynx from Slovenia. The lynx looked healthy, but after sedation, the veterinarian noticed she has serious heart problems (heart murmur). After the lynx was fitted with a collar, she woke up from the anesthesia, but unfortunately died two days after. The body of the lynx was taken to the Veterinary authorities for an autopsy. Research from...
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Choosing a name for a lynx can be a complex process. Romanian team had the opportunity to name the first female lynx captured in the scope of the LIFE Lynx project and here is how they chose it. Teodora Sin from ACDB “Choosing the name was not easy, as we all came up with different ideas and we were not willing to give them up easily. Our team members suggested different names as Carpathina, Feleena, Victoria, Dava, Néa, and...
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In the past two weeks, the pupils of the School community Julian Alps Biosphere Reserve have suggested names for the first lynx translocated to Gorenjska region, and now we have a winner. The lynx got its name – Tris and a new home in Pokljuka! Thank you to all the pupils who proposed names and voted and to the School Community to help with this process! During this time, lynx Tris also received a passport with his name and...
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On March 16, we co-organized an online lecture for university students about large carnivores in Slovenia. Coexistence with large carnivores and the importance of education for creating positive attitudes towards them were two main topics presented and discussed with the participants. A part of the lecture was dedicated to the Eurasian lynx, with the focus on the research about the knowledge and attitudes in primary school students...
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2021 is an amazing lynx-capturing year for our project. After three lynx, already captured for translocation, both teams from Romanian and Slovakian have been successful again in the beginning of March. First, the team in Romania captured another male lynx, than just a few days later Slovakian team announced that they got a female lynx. All together we have five lynx (three males and two females) captured for translocation to...
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Between March 5, 2021 and April 11, 2021 we invite you to visit an exhibition Let’s save the lynx in the Infocenter Triglavska roža Bled. Different art works were made in the lynx art colony in 2019, organized in collaboration with an academic painter, Brigita Požegar Mulej. The art that was created from this collaboration is now spreading the colourful story of the lynx. The official opening of the exhibition will be today, March...
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After the completion of deterministic (systematic) camera trapping in the Volovec Mts., on February 25, 2021, the Slovak LIFE Lynx team successfully captured an adult male lynx. The lynx capture was done in cooperation with the State Nature Conservation (Administrations of the Muránska planina NP and the Cerová vrchovina PLA) and the Forests of the Slovak Republic (Rimavská Sobota forest enterprise and Klenovec forest district) in...
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On March 1, 2021, an adult resident female lynx from Kočevsko area was caught in a box trap. The capture was led by the team from Department of Forestry from Biotechnical faculty and assisted by the Slovenia Forest Service team, ZOO Ljubljana and local hunters. After her sedation, the team took all biometric measures and estimated her age between 4 and 5 years old. She was in good physical condition, and weighed 16 kg and at the time...
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In the last week, primary school students from the Community of schools of the Julian Alps Biosphere Reserve have submitted name proposals for the first lynx to be translocated to Gorenjska. 120 names proposed by students from 17 primary schools were scored by an expert committee consisting of project ambassador Anže Kopitar, actor Nik Škrlec, LIFE NATURAVIVA project coordinator Maja Opalički Slabe, Miha Marolt from Triglav national...
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