Today, the first Iberian lynx was released into the wild in the area of Jokers village to help hunters control small game species in the area. The Iberian lynx is a species native to Spain and specializes in feeding on smaller prey, mainly rabbits, making it particularly suitable for small game species control in the Prekmurje area. The Iberian lynx, which will help local hunters, is also a charismatic addition to the Prekmurje area,...
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Aida’s kittens were the first confirmed lynx reproduction in Gorenjska region the scope of the LIFE Lynx project. Aida was released into Jelovica forests together with male lynx Zois in April 2021. Just four months later, lucky hikers stumbled upon about a month old lynx kittens. Since then we regularly got some hints that the kittens are with their mother, but now we got proof that at least one of them survived the winter. A...
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An increase of lynx presence in the eastern Italian Alps because of the reintroduction of five lynx to the Slovenian Julian Alps in 2021 may lead to the occasional attacks on livestock. Although lynx depredation events are rare and none has been reported in Italy in the past 10 years, farmers are now supported in applying prevention measures. CUFAA has purchased so-called intervention kits –electric fences to protect livestock, which...
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This year, the Hunting Association of Slovenia and the LIFE Lynx project team are organizing the 13. Slovenian Hunters Day, titled ‘Lynx in Slovenia: the success of Slovenian hunting?’ The event will be entirely dedicated to raising awareness on the importance of lynx conservation and the involvement of hunters in activities within the project. It will be an all-day educational event, where lectures about lynx history,...
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Members of Croatian LIFE Lynx team have published a new scientific manuscript. They researched a quantitative approach to analysing the four types of lynx coat patterns recognized in Croatia and to track frequencies of coat patterns over time. A total of 195 photographs of lynx individuals from Croatia, collected in the 1978–2019 period, were visually assigned to one of four types of coat patterns: no spots, small spots, big spots,...
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‘’Trap has triggered’’ – a signal we have all been waiting for, even though it does not always stand for a successful capture. Since the box traps have been activated in Romania, the team received this signal several times, but the wind, a wildcat, and two lynxes that were able to trick the door closing mechanism, have prolonged our waiting. We understood that this is part of the process and, because we saw them on our camera traps,...
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Last week, Slovenian LIFE Lynx project team managed to equip another two lynxes with new telemetry collars in Slovenian Dinaric Mountains. One of them was lynx Catalin, who was translocated from Romania and released in Snežnik forests back in 2020. He was already equipped with a collar but batteries on it would drain soon, therefore we replaced it with a new collar, which will enable us to prolong tracking of his movements and...
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On Sunday, February 13, 2022 in the morning, biologists from the Biotechnical Faculty received an alarm about a triggered trap in the area of Mala Gora near Ribnica. With the help of a GSM camera trap, they saw that they captured a juvenile lynx. Later on, they discovered that it is a young female l, approximately 9 months old and weighing 12 kg. Most probably, it is one of the three last-years cubs of the resident female lynx Teja...
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One of the main challenges of surveying lynx with camera traps is to find locations for camera traps where the chance of recording lynx is highest. Camera traps are thus often set at forest roads, which are often used by lynx, however our experience from the Dinarics shows that setting up cameras at prominent rocks, scent-marking sites or mountain ridges also provides good lynx records. In the scope of an internship at the Slovenia...
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Continuing the work started in September, the Romanian LIFE Lynx team has activated the box traps, waiting now for the next lynx individual to be captured. While checking the photos from the cameras used to monitor the box traps, the team members were happy to find out that the lynxes were marking and entering the traps, before the activation. With good snow conditions in the last weeks, snow-tracking was possible and the team was...
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On February 4, 2022, LIFE Lynx project managed to capture not one, but two lynxes from the remnant population in Dinaric Mountains. In Nature Nark Velebit, Croatian team captured an adult male named Josip. He is a big male who weighed 27 kg and we estimate him to be around 5 years old. He is present on our camera traps in the Nature Park since December 2019, and now we will gain a better insight into his life with the help of the...
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