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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After setting up the box traps in the Slovak Carpathians, together with our colleagues from the Slovenian LIFE Lynx team, we first managed to catch three wildcats, which of course we released back into the forest. However, on the 26th and 27th of January, 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, an...
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Dear LIFE Lynx followers, we prepared for you the third LIFE Lynx bulletin, where we gathered our greatest achievements from the past two years. It was a very successful time for our project; from the first translocations to Slovenian Alps to the visit of the head of LIFE Programme, Mr. Angelo Salsi. Our team is working full speed ahead, with just one more year to the finish line. So far so good, thank you for all the support and we...
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Romanian LIFE Lynx team is sending good news; shortly after activating the box-traps, they already captured the first lynx this year. A big male, about 2 years old, weigh almost 23 kg, with a nicely spotted fur and a distinguishing feature, a big scar on his left ear, was captured in the Tarcau Mountains. The funny looking ear, might be caused by an old injury, but is fully healed now and it does not seem to bother the lynx. For now,...
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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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Vstopamo v zadnje leto projekta LIFE Lynx in še je čas, da se nam pridružite kot sodelavec v ekipi Zavoda za gozdove Slovenije. Na voljo je delovno mesto za določen čas (do 31. 3. 2024) s 3-mesečnim poskusnim delom, za izvedbo nalog na projektu »LIFE Lynx« – Reševanje risa v Dinaridih in jugovzhodnih Alpah pred izumrtjem. Izobrazba: specializacija po višješolski izobrazbi (prejšnja), visokošolska strokovna izobrazba (prejšnja),...
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On a Christmas day, we got a message that a trap was triggered and a photo of a young lynx standing in front of the box-trap in Pokljuka. The joy was indescribable, when it was confirmed that we manage to capture the first lynx offspring from Gorenjska region in the Slovenian Alps. The lynx was sedated, measured, and fitted with a telemetry collar. A veterinary examined the lynx and confirmed that it was a male, weighing 12 kg, and...
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In the last days of November, the Slovenian LIFE Lynx team successfully captured lynx Aida and replaced her telemetry collar. The lynx was caught in a box trap set on a forest road where she was regularly recorded during the last camera trapping season. Aida was translocated from Romania and together with male Zois released into the forests of Jelovica plateau in 2021. They established their territories there and already got two...
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We already started with last season of lynx capturing in the Carpathians, and this year preparations in Romania began early. In October, the team began repairing the box traps already placed in the field and looking for new possible locations, in case some of the box-traps need to be relocated. Opportunistic camera-trap monitoring will continue this year too, with cameras being set at the box-traps as well as some key locations where...
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