Last week, Slovenian LIFE Lynx project team managed to equip another two lynxes with new telemetry collars in Slovenian Dinaric Mountains. One of them was lynx Catalin, who was translocated from Romania and released in Snežnik forests back in 2020. He was already equipped with a collar but batteries on it would drain soon, therefore we replaced it with a new collar, which will enable us to prolong tracking of his movements and...
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On Sunday, February 13, 2022 in the morning, biologists from the Biotechnical Faculty received an alarm about a triggered trap in the area of Mala Gora near Ribnica. With the help of a GSM camera trap, they saw that they captured a juvenile lynx. Later on, they discovered that it is a young female l, approximately 9 months old and weighing 12 kg. Most probably, it is one of the three last-years cubs of the resident female lynx Teja...
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On February 4, 2022, LIFE Lynx project managed to capture not one, but two lynxes from the remnant population in Dinaric Mountains. In Nature Nark Velebit, Croatian team captured an adult male named Josip. He is a big male who weighed 27 kg and we estimate him to be around 5 years old. He is present on our camera traps in the Nature Park since December 2019, and now we will gain a better insight into his life with the help of the...
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This season, we have extended the monitoring of the impact of lynx population reinforcement in Slovenia to the Slovenian Alps. In the spring, five adult lynxes equipped with telemetry collars were released in the area of Pokljuka and Jelovica. Despite telemetry monitoring, we are regularly monitoring the progress of the reinforcement with camera traps, which are the main tool for lynx monitoring, as they allow long-term monitoring of...
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We have prepared a second report on the surveillance of lynx reinforcements in Slovenia and Croatia. Using different monitoring methods, we recorded 95 adult lynx in the Slovenian and Croatian Dinarides during the 2020/2021 season. Five lynxes have their territories in the Slovenian Alps. With the help of 76 hunters, we monitored lynx over a 4000 km2 area in Slovenia with more than 200 camera traps. We found that 24 adult lynxes were...
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The existence of large carnivores depends to a large extent on successful coexistence with humans, so knowledge of stakeholder attitudes is of great importance for the conservation of large carnivores. Therefore, a public opinion survey among local residents, hunters and breeders was carried out at the start of the LIFE Lynx project and was repeated again in 2021. We were mostly interested to know more about the stakeholders’...
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After Ludvík Kunc left us forever last year, his friend and exceptional man, a lynx expert Štefan Zatroch, passed away in the beginning of this year as well. Jakub Kubala, from the Slovak LIFE Lynx project team remembers Mr. Zatroch with these words: It was a great honor for me that we have become a part of his exceptional life story (very nicely documented in a documentary film Hunters stories – The lynx Catchers His efforts and work...
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In the beginning of December, LIFE Lynx project team joined the LIFE WolfAlps project’s congress for hunters in Sorica. There we presented some general information about the project and the latest activities regarding lynx monitoring in the Gorenjska region. The event was organized for hunters who participate in roe deer capturing and radio-collaring activity, which is part of the predator-prey-hunter study, implemented in this...
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On invitation of a local hunting association, Progetto Lince Italia presented lynx conservation needs of Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population, to hunting grounds of northeastern Belluno province. 24 people were present, including 2 gamekeepers and 8 presidents of the hunting grounds of the Comelico area. The present status of the reinforcement was presented as well as the active role of the Slovenian hunters in the whole process....
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Over the past two weeks, meetings have been held with local residents interested in or affected by lynx-related topics. All of them can join the so-called Local Consultative Groups (LCG) that we have set up in the scope of our project. We have five such groups in Slovenia – LCG Kočevsko, LCG Pivško, LGC Loška Dolina and Loški Potok, LCG Gorenjska and North Primorska, and in the Cerknica area, we have joined the LIFE Stržen...
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In the area of newly established stepping-stone population, the Slovenian Alps, we have set up camera traps for lynx monitoring for the first time ever this autumn. With local hunters from five hunting clubs and three districts of state-owned hunting ground which lays within the Triglav National park we set up camera traps at 20 different locations. Choosing suitable locations was a challenge for the experienced personnel as the Alps...
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