During November and December, the Slovak LIFE Lynx team focused on the final preparation and implementation of the 2021/22 lynx capturing season. Its members built two more box traps in the Volovec Mountains project area and at the same time started realization of the deterministic Eurasian lynx camera trapping in the Vepor Mountains project area. At the beginning of December, the Slovak team also hosted colleagues from Ukraine within...
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On Monday morning, January 3 2022, Croatian LIFE Lynx team was informed that a lynx was found in a concrete well, behind an abandoned house in a remote area in central Lika region in Croatia. Owner of the house (who occasionally visits the area) found the lynx and called the police, who informed our team. We immediately went there, tranquilized the animal and got her out of the 3.5 meters deep well. It was an adult female, exhausted,...
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In the beginning of December, LIFE Lynx project team joined the LIFE WolfAlps project’s congress for hunters in Sorica. There we presented some general information about the project and the latest activities regarding lynx monitoring in the Gorenjska region. The event was organized for hunters who participate in roe deer capturing and radio-collaring activity, which is part of the predator-prey-hunter study, implemented in this...
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Computer simulations are a very useful and widely used tool in conservation biology as they are able to provide useful reference points for decision-making in population management. This is why we developed an individual-based stochastic model of lynx population development, aimed to predict the long-term viability of the population in Dinaric Mountains and South-eastern Alps under different management scenarios. The emphasis of the...
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On invitation of a local hunting association, Progetto Lince Italia presented lynx conservation needs of Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population, to hunting grounds of northeastern Belluno province. 24 people were present, including 2 gamekeepers and 8 presidents of the hunting grounds of the Comelico area. The present status of the reinforcement was presented as well as the active role of the Slovenian hunters in the whole process....
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Kristina Oiclj, a student at Kočevje Secondary School, presented her thoughts on the lynx in a slightly different way. The comic entitled Large carnivores – The Lynx was created under the mentorship of her teacher, Zorica Potisk as part of the interdisciplinary thematic project G.R.E.T.A., based on the lecture and workshop we held at the school as part of the LIFE Lynx project. This October, we also had a field excursion with...
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LIFE Lynx genetics team from Biotechnical faculty in Ljubljana visited the LECA Institute (Laboratorie d’Ecologie Alpine) in Grenoble, which is one of the main genetic laboratories in Europe working with environmental DNA (samples of water and soil) and large carnivore DNA. For three weeks, both teams were working together on a new method to learn how to extract the DNA from environmental samples, such as snow and water. With this...
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Are you a citizen of Tarvisio or a guest? If you want to go for a walk of an hour or two, the newly established lynx trail is the right option! Starting behind the “Palazzo Forestale”, the trail takes you to two lookouts on top of Monte Palla, where you will enjoy the view towards Slovenia on the one side and Pontebba on the other. Along the trail, notice boards will inform you about lynx biology, challenges of coexistence and...
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Since 2018, when we set up our first photo traps in Croatia, in the regions of Lika and the northern part of Dalmatia, we have photographed about a hundred different lynx. About 50% of these animals were photographed on both sides of the body, but for the rest, we had only one side of the body so they couldn’t be counted as a whole. This does not mean that all of the hundred lynx are now present in the area, a large part of...
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In the beginning of November 2021, Rewilding Europe organized a gathering of rewilding practitioners in a scenic village Pettorano Sul Gizio in Italian Apennine Mountains. LIFE Lynx project was one of the twenty project and organizations from 14 European countries present at the event. In five days of presentations, workshops, brainstorming sessions, and field visits, the participants exchanged experiences in working on different...
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Over the past two weeks, meetings have been held with local residents interested in or affected by lynx-related topics. All of them can join the so-called Local Consultative Groups (LCG) that we have set up in the scope of our project. We have five such groups in Slovenia – LCG Kočevsko, LCG Pivško, LGC Loška Dolina and Loški Potok, LCG Gorenjska and North Primorska, and in the Cerknica area, we have joined the LIFE Stržen...
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