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Within the LIFE Lynx project we also focused on the future of the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population. On its own, the population remains too small to avoid the increase of inbreeding in the next decades, and will need gene flow from other populations, either naturally through establishment of a Dinaric – Alpine metapopulation, or assisted with translocations. We explored the impact of the translocations on the lynx population using...

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It started with the funds for reimbursing local people for travel expenses to attend meetings of the so-called Local Consultative Groups (LCGs). And then at the first meetings the idea came up – what if we could do something different with these funds? And we did. At the following meetings, LCG members suggested different ideas on what we could do in their own neighbourhood related to the lynx. As expected, there were more good...

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The LIFE Lynx project continues the work of hunters and foresters who brought back the lynx in Dinaric Mountains in 1973; their work is presented in our first film Path of the Lynx. Another extinction was threatening Lynx in Slovenia and Croatia. The main reason was inbreeding. LIFE Lynx project has joined experts, conservationists, researchers, and hunters from five European countries, with a common goal – to save the lynx from...

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Sneška is he last lynx translocated in the scope of the LIFE Lynx project and the only female lynx translocated and released in the Dinaric part of the Dinaric –SE Alpine lynx population. About two months after her release in Snežnik area, she headed north and later on established her territory in Rakitna between Iški Vintgar gorge and Borovnica. In this area, a male lynx Catalin has his territory. We are monitoring both lynxes with...

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The Mighty Lynx Cartoon

The Mighty Lynx Cartoon


Posted - Feb 23, 2024

Your favorite young lynx character from the book The Mighty Lynx is now making here appearance in a short animated film. Juniper Tuftytips with her brother Oaky Sharpclaws takes her first steps into their home forest and discovers what it takes to be a (mighty) lynx and how researchers monitor their movements. *The cartoon is in Slovenian lanugage, but you can turn on English subtitles in...

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At the beginning of February, a very special day took place at Naklo Primary School. Seven different activities or stations with lynx topics were presented  at the school. The Young Lynx Guardians, together with their teacher Špela Eržen, held an open-door day for younger pupils! The younger classes took part in a quiz about the lynx, jumping from a spot – like a lynx jumping from an ambush when hunting, e-lessons (a kind of...

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In January, researchers from the Biotechnical Faculty – Department of Biology in collaboration with the ZOO Ljubljana’s veterinary team, captured and collared a young male lynx weighing 23.5 kg in the area of Velika Gora near Ribnica. They named it Matic, after a local hunter. It was estimated to be about 3 years old. Matic, who is most likely a descendant of the lynx Goru, has been recorded several times before in the...

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Well – the lynx! These days there are two films screening in Slovenian cinema; Together for Lynx and The Lynx. After watching a documentary film The Lynx, depicting life of lynxes in the Jura Mountains, we held a workshop for 9th graders as part of the school programme at Kinodvor Cinema in Ljubljana. Photographer and video maker Laurent Geslin filmed the descendants of the reintroduced lynxes, following them in the wild and...

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The LIFE Lynx project is now almost at the finish line.  Project partners met in Slovenia for the last time to agree on the final outputs of the project. Project Monitor and representative of the biggest project co-financer, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning, agreed that the project achieved and even overachieved many of the goals set in the project proposal. Magda Sindičić, from Faculty for Veterinary Medicine...

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Fourth LIFE Lynx project Bulletin

Fourth LIFE Lynx project Bulletin


Posted - Feb 6, 2024

Latest LIFE Lynx activities are gathered in the last project Bulletin, available in English and in four other project languages: For a printed version, please write to [email protected] or contact a LIFE Lynx project partner from your...

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Following the publication of the revised version of the Handbook for investigation of poaching, which was prepared in Slovenian language, we also prepared an English version of the revised handbook. The Handbook serves as a reference for all relevant institutions involved in the detection, investigation, and sanctioning of wildlife crime. The revised English version will also serve as a good practice example for international...

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