We are proud and happy to announce that we have a new Lynx Ambassador – Slovenian writer, publicist and actress Desa Muck has joined our project. Desa is very well known to the Slovenian public and is one of the most popular authors, especially for children in Slovenia. She has already put her affection for animals into words and published numerous works on the subject, such as the collection The Miraculous Flea Megi, and this...
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This year we also responded to the invitation to the scouts festival called “Taborniški feštival”, which took place on Saturday, April 23. At the stand “How fierce is the lynx?” we presented the LIFE Lynx project, the biology of the lynx and monitoring of lynx. Young visitors could make plaster casts of large carnivore tracks, try themselves at lynx photo-identification, weigh a lynx telemetry collar and compare the feel...
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The pupils and teachers of the Dragotin Kette Primary School have already proposed names for the lynx, which was recently transported from the Romanian Carpathians to a quarantine enclosure in the Snežnik foothills. In total, 19 names have been collected. Now an expert committee is at work to select the candidates for the final vote. The name must be short, simple and in any way linked to the local community, the forest, the lynx or...
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In March and April, the first three educational seminars were held for staff, usually the first to detect or report alleged cases of illegal killing of wild animals. The trainings were intended for the employees of the Slovenian Forest Service; foresters and professional hunters, and were implemented in coordination of Hunting Association of Slovenia in the scope of the action C.8, which is entirely dedicated to the prosecution of...
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We have a new lynx in our translocation crew! Adult male (age 5 – 7 years) was captured in Slovakia and will be released in Croatia. Capturing was organized by the Slovak LIFE Lynx team in cooperation with Lesy SR, Forest Entreprise Východ and Forest district Betliar, as well as the State Nature Conservation of SR. Lynx was captured at Betliar Forest district, where 30 years ago lynxes were captured for the historical reintroduction...
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On Saturday April 9, 2022, in Gornja Radgona, as part of the 12th International Hunting and Fishing Fair, the Expert Scientific Council of the Hunting Association of Slovenia (HAS) and the LIFE Lynx Project Group organized an expert consultation on the topic Lynx in Slovenia: the success of Slovenian hunting. Speakers from Slovenia and Croatia discussed the impact of lynx on game management, how many lynx can be expected in Slovenia...
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Last week, a lynx, temporarily “named” RO11, arrived from the Romanian Carpathian Mountains to Slovenia’s Snežník forests. He will stay there until mid- May when he will be released into nature, with a new name, that will be chosen for him by DINA Pivka Large Carnivore Information Center and local schoolchildren. Students from the Dragotina Ketteja Primary School in Ilirska Bistrica were asked to help with the name...
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On Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, we held a seminar for teachers at Mestni vrh near Kočevje. We were very warmly welcomed in the Cottage at Jelen’s Studenec – both with the service and with the fire in the fireplace. Outside on the trail, the temperatures were still quite low. The two seminars on the Lynx Educational Trail were the last of the six seminars planned for the project. We introduced the project to the...
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Today, the Snežnik quarantine enclosure received a new temporary »tenant” – an adult male lynx, who has travelled from the Romanian Carpathians. The lynx does not have a name yet; this time it will be chosen in cooperation with the DINA Pivka Centre. More information on the selection will follow soon. While the lynx is adjusting to his new environment, local hunters from State Managed Hunting Ground Jelen will take care of...
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On Wednesday, March 30, Croatian LIFE Lynx team managed to capture and successfully fit with a collar another lynx in the Lika region, Croatia. The adult remnant male weighed 24 kg and we estimated him to be around 5 years old. We have already known him since 2019 from camera traps set in PP Velebit and nicknamed him Pandora. Pandora is also holding the record as the most photographed lynx on Velebit as we have more than 60 recorded...
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Yesterday we published an April Fools’ Day news about the release of the Iberian Lynx in Prekmurje, which is, of course, untrue. In mid-October 2021, representatives of the LIFE projects working with large carnivores from Slovenia and Italy (LIFE Lynx and LIFE WolfAlps EU) visited Andalusia. The purpose of the visit was meeting with one of the most successful lynx reinforcement projects in Europe – LIFE Iberlince projects that...
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