In September project team members form ACDB and Slovenia Forest Service started with the preparatory work for the upcoming lynx capture season in Romania. “During one week of intensive field work we carried out inspections of the already established lynx capture sites and managed to setup one new box trap. On the locations where box traps were set up in previous seasons, we had to renew the barriers around the traps that make it...
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The special issue of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group‘s biannual newsletter – Cat News is now published online and it is fully dedicated to Eurasian lynx in Central Europe. Our project partners contributed to the issue with four articles. Slovakian and Romanian partners participated in the article on conservation needs of one of the largest lynx populations in Europe – the Carpathian population with recommendations...
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We are monitoring the indicators for assessing impacts on ecosystem functions and socio-economic impact of project actions since the beginning of the project, and each year (2018, 2019, 2020) we prepare a short report on them. In these reports we show how the project engaged the public and especially key target groups (e.g., hunters, schools, farmers, public, scientific community), how has the project impacted governance systems, has...
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In the scope of the LIFE Lynx project’s assessment and selection of sites and lynx for live-capture from the Carpathian source population in Romania, ACDB prepared a mid-term report on the situation of the lynx population in the capture areas in Romania. The report, Monitoring of the Eurasian lynx in the Eastern Romanian Carpathians, presents the results of over 4 years of observations (2017-2021) carried out in different parts of the...
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How do citizens view conservation efforts and increase measures in the lynx population? What is the attitude towards the lynx? Are there any differences between the Dinaric Mountains and the Alps or between the different countries involved? These are just some of the questions on which a representative and independent survey (outsourced) was conducted in 2019 in Italy. The article published in #Natura (Environment and Territory...
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Between October 6, 2021 and October 31, 2021 we invite you to visit an exhibition Let’s save the lynx at castle Snežnik. Different art works were made in the lynx art colony in 2019, organized in collaboration with an academic painter Brigita Požegar Mulej. The art that was created from this collaboration is now spreading the colourful story of the lynx. We kindly invite you to visit this exhibition and witness the works of artists...
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Slovenia has a new educational trail, dedicated to the lynx. On Friday, September 24, 2021, an opening event and a press conference were held in Kočevje at the mountain hut »Koča pri Jelenovem studencu« where the Lynx educational trail is located. With the help of an animated character – lynx named Mala, the visitor learns interesting facts about behavior and biology of the largest European wild cat – the Eurasian lynx. Giving...
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Approximately twice a year the whole LIFE Lynx project team meets to evaluate the work done so far and to prepare plans for the work ahead. After more than a year, team members met in person and for the first time in Romania. The Steering group meeting took place in the beautiful scenery of the town Lepsa in the Putna-Vrancea Natural Park. After the meeting, partners from ACDB organized a two-day excursions in the Carpathian Mountains...
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LIFE Lynx project partner Slovenia Forest Service, is searching for a new coworker. More information about the job application (in Slovenian). Public tender is open until October 4, 2021.
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The Romania National Forest association – Romsilva is an official collaborator of the European project LIFE Lynx, coordinated by the Slovenia Forest Service, through which several lynxes from Romania will be captured and relocated in the Dinaric and Southern Eastern Alps to save lynx population in this area. At the headquarters of the National Forest Regia – Romsilva in Bucharest a working meeting took place on Thursday,...
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A research group from University in Ljubljana, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, came to interesting conclusions about lynx behavioral ecology, more precisely, about Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) day bed selection. Eurasian lynx is the largest felid representative in Europe with peak of activity in morning and evening/twilight. However, cats are known to rest and sleep a lot and, most often, they sleep during the day,...
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