The Triglav National Park is the only Slovenian national park and is one of the oldest European parks. The first protection dates back to 1924 when the Alpine Conservation Park was founded, and in the year 1981, when the law on Triglav National Park defined the park’s present borders. It is a unique area of protected nature in the Alps, whose priority objectives are conservation of ecosystems and natural processes, natural...
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Our photo traps set across Mala Gora hills have photographed lynx Teja with her new offspring. This year she has not one, but two kittens. We do not yet have genetic evidence of the fatherhood, but based on the movement data of Teja and translocated lynx Goru in the mating season it is highly likely that Goru is the father also of this year’s litter. Goru and Teja share their territories for the second year. Their movement data from...
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LIFE Lynx project partners held their 8th steering group meeting. Next year will be an important one for LIFE Lynx, because the first lynxes will be translocated to Gorenjska in Slovenia, where there are no territorial lynxes currently present. Plans had to be prepared to ensure that the translocations will go as smooth as possible, especially because of the coronavirus situation. In the fourth year of the project, the team already...
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Bears are very effective scavengers, and Eurasian lynx rarely stand a chance when they come to usurp prey remains from them. Let alone, when they are outnumbered one to five as in this case. You can read more about bears’ interactions with lynx in a scientific article by Miha Krofel and Klemen Jerina from Biotechnical Faculty Mind the cat: Conservation management of a protected dominant scavenger indirectly affects an...
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How big territory does a lynx need? Why are the lynxes useful? Do the lynx attack people? How does the project involve the broader public in the LIFE Lynx project? You can find the answers in our new short and colorful handbook. The purpose of the newly published handbook is to gather in one place the information about lynx and our work within the LIFE Lynx project. Our aim was to make the manual reader-friendly, easily accessible,...
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At the beginning of October, we held a lecture and workshop about lynx and lynx introductions from the Carpathians at the Kočevje Gymnasium and Secondary School. The last part of the workshop was dedicated to role playing activity – a discussion where every student is assigned a role part of a different stakeholder and defends their position. The purpose of the role playing activity was for high school students to learn about...
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The jury has decided: the winner of the painting contest that was held during lock down 2020 is the painting of lynx hunting chamois by Igor Pičulin from Slovenia. The jury was composed of 2 members from the Artists for Nature Foundation, 2 members from Progetto Lince Italia and 2 Italian artists. Additionally the number of likes from both Facebook and Instagram were counted. A total of 12 artworks were chosen, one of them also from...
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In times when the Eurasian lynx is making a comeback in Europe, to the places where in the history he disappeared from, there is hope that hunters will continue to play a critical role in the conservation and long-term protection of this species. In this episode of Hunter Stories, we share what Slovenian hunters Maks Konečnik, Miha Marolt, Anton Marinčič, and Lado Bradač have to say about the Eurasian lynx – as a hunter. You can watch...
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Within the LIFE Lynx project, we translocated a total of seven lynx, all males, to Slovenia and Croatia. Out of five lynxes released this year, at least three have already established their territory. GORU After last year’s release in Loški potok, Goru established his territory in Mala gora area in the Kočevje region. He is still roaming this area today. He shares his territory with resident female lynx Teja, who had...
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Camera trapping in Slovenia revealed 20 adult lynx and two kittens being present in Slovenia between September 2019 and April 2020. Camera traps are used for systematic data collection on minimal number of adult lynx and the presence of kittens, as well as the sex and age structure of the population to some extent. During the second season of camera trapping, we have collaborated with 68 hunters and successfully obtained high-quality...
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Maks is a young lynx that was released in June this year in Snežnik forests and is currently establishing a territory in the Javorniki area. Since the release, he has managed to catch several roe deers, on the last census of his prey, we found out that this time he caught a fox. The diet of the lynx in the Dinaric Mountains is mostly based on ungulates, especially roe deer, but sometimes they also prey on red deer or chamois. In...
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