On Saturday, August 27, several tables with various materials and activities accompanied visitors along the paths at the Ljubljana Zoo. It was a nature conservation day sponsored by the Vita insurance company. The day featured various creative workshops, movement challenges, enrichment activities for the zoo’s animals, ideas for environmentally friendly living – and stands with conservation content. Conservationists were...
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In the middle of May, we received a mortality signal from the GPS collar of lynx Neža, the offspring of the translocated lynx Goru and the resident lynx Teja. The project partners from the Biotechnical Faculty immediately went to the last location they received, from the collar. In the area of the Struge na Dolenjskem Hunting Club, near a high-stand, they found a GPS-collar that had been visibly torn off by force. The incident was...
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Blisk, a translocated lynx from Romania, was released into the forests of Snežnik, Slovenia on the May 17 this year. Since his release, he explored the area around the release site first going South. However, he turned back to the area of the release site and moved North to Javorniki forests where he has stayed since then. During the past camera trapping season (2021-2022), a female lynx was recorded in that area, which could indicate...
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Exactly 10 weeks ago lynx Lubomir (immediately nicknamed Ljubo) arrived in Croatia. This adult male, captured in Slovakia, was released on location Rizvanuša, near town Gospić, in hunting ground Ramino korito managed by the Rewilding Velebit Foundation. All other lynxes that were released in Croatia before Ljubo came out of the transport box and left the release location in lightning speed. However, after exiting the box Ljubo...
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Any? That’s right, whether for school, about dog training or a love novel for summer reading. The lynx that are under the eye of the Young Lynx Guardians have now found their way onto the bookmarks. The Young Lynx Guardians programme introduces the lynx to the pupils through a workshop and a field day. This is followed by an event where the Young Guardians present what they had done as part of the programme. The purpose of the...
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The last lynx monitoring season (September 2021 – April 2022) in Slovenia was completed successfully. More than in any other year, lynx kittens were making an appearance in front of the cameras and we obtained high quality images from Menišija, Racna Gora, Mala Gora, Jelovica and Kočevska Reka. For the first time, a female with four cubs was recorded throughout the entire season; this is the resident female Petra, which has been...
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Over the past years, we have forged successful collaborations with artists and jointly organized art events on lynx topic. The artworks created spread the story of the lynx, the reasons why the lynx population is endangered, and the measures we are taking to save the population from extinction. Slovenia’s diverse cultural landscape and the diversity of its fauna and flora are also excellent starting points for the development of...
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We are working with nine schools as part of the Young Lynx Guardians project. In addition to the workshop and field day, some schools have additional lynx-related activities. For example, pupils from Dragotin Kette Primary School in Ilirska Bistrica, led by teacher Suzi Avsec, produced videos of forest animals. Where did they get the videos? One automatic camera was borrowed from the cameras used to monitor lynx, and one was added by...
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The project team is very happy when people respond to our invitations to participate in events, help monitor the lynx and participate in the project in other ways. On the other hand, we are pleasantly surprised when we hear from someone who has not yet been involved in the project, but decided to get involved with the issue of lynx conservation. That’s exactly what Sara Zupan, a ten-year-old student at Mala Akademija – KUD...
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Together with the local hunters we set up 18 camera traps in the area of Jelovica and Pokljuka to find out what is the status of lynxes Tris, Lenka and Zois. Their GPS collars have stopped working in the past few months so we do not know exactly where the lynxes are. All three lynxes were recorded on our camera traps within the last camera trapping survey, but their whereabouts remain unknown since then. Camera traps will show us...
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In June, we confirmed that Aida has three kittens this year and we set a few camera traps near one of the dens. During the denning period, females move their kittens quite often to protect them from potential predators. Our cameras captured the moments when Aida was transferring the kittens. Aida seems to be a good and caring mother that knows how to handle her kittens. However, not all kittens are expected to survive to the adulthood...
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