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...
Read More
In 2022, project activities related to the long-term goal to better identify, prosecute and sanction illegal killing of wildlife have been very intensive. To this end, we organized an additional three-day training session for police officers, followed by a one-day consultative working meeting, where, in addition to police officers, representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Hunting Inspection were also present....
Read More
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...
Read More
Today another translocated lynx was released in the forests of Snežnik. She was named by the locals involved in Local Consultative Groups in Dinaric regions of Slovenia. As the general public had already named one of the previously monitored lynxes “Snežka” as part of the DinaRis project, this time we went with “Sneška” – since she is coming from Slovakia (in Slovenian “SlovaŠKA), where she was...
Read More
Between April 17 and 18, project partners from all participating organizations met for the 12th time, this time in Tarvisio, Italy. On the first day, partners presented an overview of project activities in the last year and made plans for the last year of the project. The next day progress of the project was presented to the project monitor, Mr. Mitja Kaligarič, the representative of the European Commission, Ms. Anita Fassio and Ms....
Read More
Together with hunters from the Nomenj Gorjuše hunting Club, we released the last lynx, Lukaš in the Slovenian Alps as part of the LIFE Lynx project. The lynx comes from Slovakia and is one of seventeen translocated lynxes that are helping to save the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population from extinction. Some of these animals are also presented in a new children book; a writer and lynx ambassador Desa Muck has written about the...
Read More
Slovenia currently has seven individual lynx- themed notice boards. The locations are distributed according to the lynx’s range: Strma Reber near Osilnica, Mirna Gora between Kočevje and Bela Krajina, Loški Potok (near the Hunting Family Natural Science Centre), Glamping Bloke, Cottage Mladika near Postojna, Vojkova cottage near Nanos and Vodiška planina on Jelovica. These boards have a common part of information about the lynx...
Read More
LIFE Lynx project partners from the Biotechnical Faculty (UL) have produced the report titled “Habitat suitability and connectivity models for lynx between and within the Southeastern Alps and Dinaric Mountains area”. They have addressed several research questions: (1) Where is suitable (and optimal) habitat for lynx? (2) How permeable is the landscape of the project area for lynx? (3) How (well) connected are habitat patches? (4) How...
Read More
LIFE Lynx project partner, the University of Ljubljana, organised an educational seminar titled Integrating Spatial Characteristics and Habitat Connectivity for the Eurasian Lynx in Spatial Planning. The seminar was aimed at decision-makers and professionals involved in spatial planning, protected area management or forest and wildlife management. In a series of five lectures, we presented the characteristics and suitability of space...
Read More
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...
Read More
In mid-March 2023, the Slovak team of the LIFE Lynx project from the Technical University in Zvolen in cooperation with partners from the Betliar Forest district (Rožňava Forest enterprise, LESY SR), the Bojnice National Zoo and the Slovak Karst National Park administration managed to capture an adult female lynx (around 5 years old). This animal was the last captured lynx in Slovakia for the translocation and rescue of the Dinaric-SE...
Read More