The first meeting of the Local consultative group „Gorski kotar“ was held on Thursday, 28.03.2019, in Crni Lug, at the facilities of National park „Risnjak“ The first meeting gathered the representatives of local community, interested and engaged in LIFE Lynx project activities. The goal of the meeting was to present the current status of LIFE Lynx project and discuss the communication between project partners and local community, and...
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As a part of the educational campaign in local schools, on Tuesday, March 27. 2019., we held a lynx workshop in Elementary school Vrbovsko as part of the LIFE Lynx open door day. It was organized by the members of the LIFE Lynx team, Vedran Slijepčević and Ira Topličanec, in cooperation with Mario Šlat, member of the hunting association “Jelenski jarak” from Vrbovsko. The purpose of this workshop was to educate the...
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Slovenian LIFE Lynx team is getting ready for arrival of the first lynx. Before the release in to the nature, the lynx will spend about three weeks in an enclosure in the area of Loški Potok. For successful and safe lynx accommodation in his temporary home, members of the project team cooperated with local hunters. The enclosure is located deep in the forest, allowing Goru to adapt to our nature. For safety reasons, Goru will be under...
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It’s been almost a month since we captured our first lynx for translocation and two weeks later the second one. We couldn’t have wished for a better outcome than this; having two lynx released in Slovenia and Croatia this spring. Whole group has been occupied with activities regarding the reinforcement process and arranging a safe transfer of both lynxes to Slovenia and Croatia. Goru will be the first one to arrive and he is...
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Once a year LIFE Lynx project team is set to assess its project impacts on local economy, local communities and ecosystems services. The assessment is done through analysing and clearly presenting predefined project indicators. Results of the first such assessment are presented in a report while the most interesting figures are summarized in an infographics shown below. Click to enlarge the graphic....
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In the end of February, we conducted the first local consultative group meeting for Pivka, Postojna and Ilirska Bistrica inhabitants and organizations. At the meeting in Krpanov dom (Pivka), we presented LIFE Lynx activities, two Interreg ongoing projects from this area – Carnivora Dinarica and Nature & Wildlife, and consult about locally relevant topics such as agriculture and presence of large carnivores, opportunities for...
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Yesterday, on March 13, we held the 1st open-door day for schoolchildren in the village Krasno. It is a small school with 25 children in the village that is surrounded by mountain Velebit, an important lynx habitat. We presented the facts about lynx biology and why the lynx is endangered in Croatia. The local nature park ranger, with whom we are cooperating, presented what we do with camera traps and we showed them photos and films of...
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While we were doing our regular field work this weekend, we were accompanied by Dirk Auer, a Berlin-based journalist. We are extremely pleased with the interest of foreign media for our project and delighted to share our experience with him, but also to have the opportunity to hear his experience from other areas. In addition to field work and browsing the lynx camera trap materials, Dirk had the opportunity to meet with a beautiful...
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On Friday 8.3.2019. in the village Crni lug, Vedran Slijepčević from the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Karlovac presented fresh results from the past year of camera trapping. He also anounced the release of the romanian lynx which will take place in the next few weeks. Among the big public, there was a great number of hunters who expressed their interest in project activities. We were especially flattered by the support of dr. sc....
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Members of LIFE Lynx project team regularly cooperate with other lynx projects in Europe. In this way we exchange experiences and data, which help us towards more successful conservation and research of the European lynx populations. These days Slovenian project team members from Dept. for Forestry, Biotechnical faculty joined colleagues from the Macedonian Ecological Society and National Park Mavrovo for fieldwork in the park. The...
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Yesterday, the news about the second lynx that was caught in Romania for translocation to Croatia, flooded the Croatian media. We are really happy and thankful for the positive atmosphere that the media is creating. The RTL crew made a special effort and put together a very nice and informative report which you can see on the link below.
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