The video footage shows a female lynx from the edge of Mala Gora: offspring of Teja and Goru from the 2020-2021 litter. As is common for females, she established her territory close to her mother’s, while her brother Niko, as a typical male, dispersed further away, to the border area between Bela Krajina (Slovenia) and Ravna Gora (Croatia). Video credit: Struge Hunting Club...
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During the mating season, we can always expect intensified lynx interactions. Our colleague from Biotechnical Faculty, Forestry department prepared three animations of lynx movements using GPS data from their telemetry collars. In the first one, you can see all males (Catalin, Goru, Igi and Klif) during their mating trips. Lynxes Klif and Petra, from Kočevsko region, who had four male kittens last season, of which all survived until...
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The support of the local inhabitants plays a key role in the introduction of the lynx. As part of the Local Consultative Groups (LCG) annual meeting, we enabled the LCG members to see lynx Blisk, before its release into nature, to thank those involved for their cooperation. On Friday, May 13, we travelled, together with the local inhabitants involved in the project, from the Loška Dolina and Pivka region to Snežnik to see the Blisk...
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In the last week before the beginning of the summer holidays, the project LIFE Lynx held two field excursions with primary schools involved in our Young Lynx Guardian Programme. On Monday, June 20, we hiked the Lynx educational trail at Jelenov studenec above Kočevje with the sixth and seventh grade students of Sodražica Elementary School and visited the lynx enclosure in Loško Potok. On the lynx trail, we learned about the life and...
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Many volunteers are included in the implementation of our project and we are truly grateful for their help. We are especially happy to host interns and share our passion and knowledge with future professionals in nature conservation. For the past six months, ecology master´s degree student from France – Laurie Bedouet, joined LIFE Lynx team from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb. Laurie described her internship:...
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In the last 50 years, Europe has witnessed the arrival of a new mesocarnivore; the golden jackal (Canis aureus). Although jackals are not an alien species in Europe, the arrival of a new carnivore can introduce certain ecological impacts to the local wildlife. Teams from University of Ljubljana – Biotechnical Faculty and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Zagreb have studied the potential effect of kleptoparasitism (i.e., the act of...
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International Lynx Day, of course! It takes place on June 11, and this year we celebrated in Pivka and ZOO Ljubljana with a quite diverse programme… On Saturday, Large Carnivore Centre DINA Pivka organised a cultural event with various workshops and stands. The programme started with stories by stand up comedian and writer Boštjan Gorenjic Pižama with musician Srečko Meh. Pupils from Pivka Elementary School presented a lynx they...
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In June, LIFE Lynx and LIFE WolfAlps EU teams from Slovenia Forest Service hosted European experts working with large carnivores topics. Representatives from Italy, Spain, England, Austria, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo and Iran joined the three-day excursion in Notranjska and Gorenjska regions. The first day started in DINA Centre, where the experts from Slovenia Forest Service gave the participants a comprehensive presentation on the...
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June is the season of denning. Female lynx usually give birth at the end of May and spend at least two months with the cubs at the denning site, moving them from den to den. In case of Aida, telemetry data was showing us that she was staying confined to a small area since mid-May, indicating potential denning. Causing minimum possible disturbance, we visited the area and confirmed Aida gave birth to three kittens. The kittens were all...
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We are happy to report the successful release of a 15th lynx that today, 14.6.2022, ran out to his new home on Velebit Mountain, near the town of Gospić, Croatia. The lynx named Lubomir was captured in the Slovak Carpathians, where he spent two months in the quarantine to make sure he arrived in Croatia healthy. The arrival of the lynx was welcomed by members of the Gospić handball team and representatives of the local community....
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On Wednesday, June 8, 2022, the opening of the naturalistic-didactic path called “Lynx Trail” took place in Tarvisio. The path was created in collaboration with the Italian partners of the LIFE Lynx project, the Carabinieri Forestali and Progetto Lince Italia. The route starts almost from the center of Tarvisio; behind the “Palazzo Forestale” on the slopes of Monte Palla, and leads to two lookouts on the top. To the east,...
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