Croatian LIFE Lynx project team held a presentation of the project and lynx monitoring workshop in Zadar, Croatia. On Wednesday, a dozen of enthusiastic and interested local hunters gathered for the presentation of LIFE Lynx, and learned about the project general information and implementation of planned activities. Project presentation highlighted the activities which will take place in the surrounding area which attained the...
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Lynx in Slovenia- Research and solutions for preventing lynx extinction is the title of a lecture from dr.Miha Krofel that will be held on Tuesday, 3rd April at Miran Jarc Library in Novo mesto. The lecture is organized as part of lecture cycle organized by “Bober” society from Dolenjska region. With these lectures they want to raise awareness about the environment. We invite you to participate and discover more about the mysterious...
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International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) had their Winter Meeting in Slovenia. Students from Italy, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia visited Slovenian FoResty Insitute and Slovenia Forest Service. We presented them the activities from projects:, LIFE Lynx, Interreg 3Lynx, LIFE DINALP BEAR, LIFE ClimatePath2050, CIA2SFM, LIFEGENMON, and Forest of...
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Project team is continuing with presentations of LIFE Lynx project for hunters in Slovenia. Yesterday we had a fruitful meeting with hunters from Notranjska region. Project team presented some general information about the lynx and about project activities. Notranjska region is very suitable for lynx release site, and the team is looking forward to cooperate with Notranjska hunters in the future.
Read More“Communication in large carnivore conservation and management” is a title of a networking and experience exchange workshop which will be hosted by the University of Ljubljana within the frames of LIFE Lynx and LIFE DINALP BEAR projects from 16th to 18th April 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Both LIFE Lynx and LIFE DINALP BEAR projects are focused nature conservation projects with a strong stakeholder dialogue and collaboration component....
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At the moment, Slovenian and Romanian project teams are enjoying the ideal snow conditions in Romania that allow efficient snow-tracking. Snow-tracking is an important part of lynx monitoring for the purpose of lynx translocation. Until now, the Romanian team managed to get 13 camera trap images of lynx on 7 different locations. They also found lynx tracks for 29 times in this winter. Sometimes they were working in challenging...
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As part of the “LIFE info day” in Split, organized by LIFE national contact point for Croatia, Association Biom presented LIFE Lynx project as an example of ongoing LIFE Nature project. Altogether around 50 participants showed their interest in future applications. We were happy to share our experiences and encourage others to apply to LIFE programme. Looking forward to new LIFE projects in the region!...
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March 3rd is officially World Wildlife Day as proclaimed by United Nations General Assembly in 2013. On this day in 1973 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was signed. This year the day is celebrated under the theme “Big cats: predators under threat”. Big cats are among the most widely recognized and admired animals, but they are also facing threats, many of them caused by...
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On the 26th of February, LIFE Lynx team from Croatia held a training course for volunteers interested in getting involved in the project. The event took place on the Faculty of Veterinary medicine in Zagreb. The training was based on presenting the guidelines for sampling noninvasive lynx material and the introduction to proper use of camera traps, which are both important instruments for obtaining information about the current...
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On Wednesday 21st of February, in a village Grižane in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, lecturers doc. dr. sc. Magda Sindičić (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb), Zrinka Domazetović (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy), Petar Raos (Ministry of Agriculture) and Ivan Žgela (Police station Crikvenica) introduced local communities to large carnivore management, current population status and their legal...
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From 15th to 18th of January 2018 members of Slovenia Forest Service, University in Ljubljana and Progetto Lince Italia visited our Slovakian partner, Technical University of Zvolen. The main objective of our visit was preparation for lynx capture in Slovakia. Slovakian field crew already started opportunistic monitoring with camera traps to detect best available sites for lynx capture. We visited few monitored sites in and around...
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