Our wildlife expert Vedran had set a large number of camera trap sin the Gorski Kotar region where he also found a location that looked like a lynx day bed. After a few months, his efforts were awarded! His camera trap recorded two different adult lynx visiting the location and one of them was a female with two cubs. One of the videos also recorded a spectacular footage of a lynx call. As the video was filmed in February (mating...
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Mnogi mediji su jučer objavili vijest o hvatanju risa i zahvalni smo im na podršci našem projektu. RTL.hr su se posebno potrudili i pripremili vrlo informativan prilog.
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Shortly after catching the first lynx in Vrancea Mountains, another lynx joined Goru at the ACDB quarantine center. This male, about 4 years old, was captured on February 27, in the Subcarpathians area, within Pralea hunting unit, managed by our partner RNP Romsilva. This time, Adrian Titianu and Cătălin Ghionoiu from Direcția Silvică Bacău helped the ACDB-LIFE Lynx project team. Without them, we would have not been able to monitor...
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It’s been a week now, since we captured our first lynx in Romania. Goru is exploring his temporary home, eats and sleeps most of the time. The name Goru was given to him by our colleague Teresa. She was checking the box trap on the day when Goru was captured. She named him after a mountain peak Goru (1785 m) inside the Natural Park Putna Vrancea where the lynx was caught. It is a small nature reserve, a remote, beautiful and...
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On Monday, 11th February 2019, first local consulting group event for the area of Kočevje, Ribnica, Sodražica, Kostel and Osilnica municipality was organized. The event was held in Tourist complex Jezero in Kočevje where almost 40 individuals and organizations from different sectors of local communities (representatives of municipalities, local hunters, representatives of the agricultural, forestry and nature conservation government...
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During these winter months, project partners from Department of Forestry at Biotechnical Faculty and Slovenia Forest Service regularly conduct systematic winter snow trackings of the remnant lynx population in Slovenian forests. We search for lynx footprints across Notranjska and Kočevska regions and so far we have been able to locate lynx tracks on Mt. Snežnik, Javorniki, Racna gora, Hrušica, Stojna, Mala gora and Velika gora....
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Yesterday our project made a huge step forward with the capture of a beautiful male adult lynx. Over the past month we have been hampered by false alarms and terrible weather, but yesterday the ‘trap has triggered’ message was very real, sending adrenaline rushes around our hearts, as we sprang into action at the break of dawn. The ACDB team, supported by the representatives of the game managers and Natural Park Putna Vrancea...
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On Tuesday, 12 of February 2019., LIFE fair was held in the Little Hall Vatroslav Lisinski. The fair was organized under the LIFE conference entitled “Results and Benefits of LIFE Projects” where Magda Sindičić held a lecture on the implementation of the LIFE Lynx project in Croatia and presented it to the wider audience. In addition to LIFE Lynx, ten other projects, within the LIFE financial program of the European...
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We are please to report the completion of the POPULATION LEVEL REINFORCEMENT PLAN – Action A.4 – Elaboration of plans for reinforcement of the Dinaric-SE Alpine population and for creation of a new “stepping stone” population. This plan was a team effort and reflects the current state of our scientific knowledge of lynx and the social and management processes needed to follow the IUCN 2013 Guidelines for...
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Over a four-day period, and fighting through heavy snow conditions and bad weather, the ACDB team, together with a team from ROMSILVA , led by Adrian Titianu, succeeded in activating five boxtraps, all in stations where lynx presence has been recently confirmed. The ROMSILVAforesters team was a great help, contributing with enthusiasm and local knowledge to our work. Also, many thanks to the representatives of the private hunting...
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Our project grows with another key collaborator in Romania. The Administration of the Putna Vrancea Natural Park has agree to get involved in the project activities. They will be involved in the monitoring activity and will benefit of the LIFE Lynx project team experience in order to plan they own lynx monitoring program in the Natural Park.
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