Our photo traps on Mala Gora captured these amazing photos of lynx Teja, her kitten and Goru. We are still waiting for genetic analyses to confirm the paternity of the kitten.
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On Wednesday, 18th December 2019, we attended the 5th meeting of the Project Council of Stakeholders organised by LIFE Stržen project at the headquarters of the Notranjska Regional Park. The meeting was attended by 19 representatives of different stakeholders (municipalities, agrarian communities, tourist stakeholders, local hunting and fishing clubs, the Fisheries Research Institute of Slovenia, DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia, the...
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We have already reported the interesting meeting between the lynxes Teja and Goru immediately after his arrival in the territory of Teja. After the first meeting, the lynxes spent an unusually large amount of time together (almost a week) even though it was two months after the mating period, which is usually between late February and the middle of April. Detailed movement is presented in the following animation. In the...
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Networking and collaboration with other projects are one of the key factors for the successful implementation of the LIFE Lynx project. In cooperation with the project LIFE NATURAVIVA, in which the Triglav National Park is involved as a project partner, we held a lecture about the LIFE Lynx project and screened the documentary film »Path of Lynx«. Twenty-five participants attended the lecture held in Triglav National Park Center in...
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Congratulations to Slovenian 3Lynx project team, who successfully captured and radiocollared a male lynx. They say third time’s the charm. This Saturday, when the third alarm from the box trap went on 3Lynx project team got lucky. Local hunter went to check what’s inside, it was a lynx. 3Lynx project team, local hunter and veterinarians gathered at Kočevska Reka and went to the capturing location. There the lynx was sedated,...
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LIFE Lynx project partner Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, is searching for a new coworker for projects LIFE Lynx, Carnivora Dinarica and LIFE WOLFALPS EU. More information about job application (in Slovenian). Public tender is open until December 1,...
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On November 12th we opened an art exhibition titled “Let’s save the lynx” at the Šivec House gallery in Radovljica. The exhibited art works have been created at an art colony in Lancovo near Radovljica as part of the LIFE Lynx project, under the mentorship of an academic painter Brigita Požegar Mulej. At the opening, all gathered were welcomed by prof. dr. Mihael Jožef Toman, the Vice-Dean for Biology from the Biotechnical Faculty,...
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Part of the Slovenian and Croatian LIFE Lynx team has joined the ACDB project partner in Romania. The main purpose of the visit is to help set up box traps on a field and arrange for future captures and translocations of lynx from Romania to Slovenia and Croatia. In addition to setting new traps, a lot of time will also be spent to maintaining the locations of existing traps. In first days of the visit, we’ve set an extra box trap at...
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In present week, we carried out educational seminar, organized in the cooperation of Slovenia Forest Service and Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia. The topic of the seminar was livestock protection on pastures against large carnivores. Through the lectures on effective preventive measures, the participants, damage inspectors from Slovenia Forest Service and consultants from Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of...
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Telemetry collars of Goru, Teja and Doru are still regularly sending information about their locations. These collars give us a tiny insight in the mysterious lives of Europe’s largest cats. Data from the collars enable us to find the best places for setting the camera traps, like predation sites. This time, we found remains of Goruˋs prey, a roe deer, and set a camera trap there. With the help of camera trapping videos we can observe...
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Slovakian LIFE Lynx team is setting up camera traps to discover the best lynx capturing locations. Discover replica watches on ReplicaMagic. Shop now for the best prices, high quality, and free shipping. They have put some of the box traps deactivated in the field and discovered that at least three different lynx have visited these locations. One of them was a collared adult male lynx they named Vlado, who passed by three different...
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