In April 2023, the LIFE Lynx project team, led by the Department of Forestry from the University of Ljubljana and ZOO Ljubljana, successfully recaptured the resident female lynx Petra and fitted her with a new collar. We have been tracking Petra since spring of 2021. A few months after her capture, she gave birth to four male kittens, including lynx Bor, who was later fitted with a collar as well. In December 2022, Petra’s collar...
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Lynx Lenka who was translocated to the Triglav National Park in 2021 and has established her territory in the Pokljuka area, is regularly monitored with camera traps. It was a big mystery to us, that she always appeared alone in the footage. However, in the beginning of March, we spotted a lynx with a cub in one of the photos from Gorenjska and we confirmed that it was Lenka with a young, unknown lynx. This could only mean one thing...
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We are monitoring lynx Josip on northern Velebit with camera traps since December 2019. As translocated lynxes Alojzije and Emil (and later on also Ljubo) established their territories near the territory of lynx Josip this was a great opportunity to explore the interactions of resident and translocated animals. So on February 4 2022, thanks to great cooperation with Nature park Velebit and Rewilding Velebit Foundation, we captured...
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In mid-March, we captured the third and last cub from the first litter of Julia and Tris in the Mežakla area. The young lynx was examined by the veterinarians and found to be in excellent physical condition with at 16 kg at the time of capture. The Triglav National Park ranger who manages the Mežakla hunting ground named the lynx Andrej, after his predecessor. The name Andrej also has an additional meaning, as part of Mežakla is named...
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LIFE Lynx project partners from the Dinaric Mountains and the SE Alps have produced the third consecutive annual status report on the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population. We noted that 10 animals, translocated from the Carpathians, have already successfully integrated into the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population. Genetic analyses have also confirmed the integration of two offspring of the translocated lynx. The introduced individuals and...
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On the World Wildlife Day, in the only national park in Slovenia, we captured an adolescent lynx from the first litter of the translocated lynxes Julia and Tris. The young lynx was in good physical condition, weighing a hefty 15kg. Unlike his sibling Meri, he has a distinct spotted pattern on his fur, like Julija, from whom he has not yet separated. Triglav National Park rangers, in whose districts the cub and the female had been...
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Lynxes released in Dinaric Mountains Until now, 10 lynxes were translocated to Slovenian (5) and Croatian (5) Dinaric Mountains. Six of them were from Romania and four from Slovakia. Six lynxes (Goru, Catalin, Boris, Alojzije, Emil and Blisk) have established their territories in the Dinaric Mountains, while Lubomir is still in the process territory establishment. We lost signal from the collars of Doru, Pino and Maks and did not...
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Genetic analyses have confirmed that one of lynxes Aida and Zois’s offspring has left his mother’s territory on Jelovica area and is establishing his territory in the area of Mt. Razor. This is the first step towards the expansion of a lynx stepping-stone population in the Slovenian Alps and in the long-term connection of the Dinaric lynx population with the Alpine populations. In the first snow of December, a professional hunter from...
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In the beginning of January, the Slovenian and Slovakian LIFE Lynx teams joined forces and activated four box-traps, set in the Slovakian Carpathian Mountains. One box-trap was set and activated in Vtačnik mountains and three box traps in the area of Volovec Mountains, in Betliar hunting ground, managed by Košice enterprise of the Forests of SR. This is the last LIFE Lynx lynx-trapping season in Slovakia and the plan is to capture two...
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We received first movement data of Meri, the first young lynx from Slovenian Alps monitored with telemetry. He is entering one of the most sensitive periods of a lynx’s life; becoming independent and establishing a territory. Immediately after his release on Pokljuka, Meri went to Mežakla, to an area, where lynx Julija was just two days before. Julija could be Meri’s mother, but genetic analyses still have to confirm that. According...
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Friday the 13th was not an unlucky day for our project team, as we successfully captured another young lynx from Slovenian Alps and fitted it with a telemetry collar. This time the triggered trap was set together with the members of Bohinjska Bistrica Hunting Club. In accordance with capturing protocol, the veterinarian who sedated the lynx upon examination found that she was in excellent physical condition and weighed 10.5 kg, which...
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