Our documentary film is successfully spreading the word about the efforts to save the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population from extinction. To make it reach even more people around Europe and even further, it has been screened at film festivals, national televisions and various events. More than 8000 people already watched it on LIFE Lynx YouTube channel, where it is available with Italian, English, Romanian, Croatian, Slovenian, and German subtitles. Hungarian WWF recognized the importance of our film for the Hungarian audience, so they translated the subtitles to their language. We are delighted to see that the film is successfully spreading beyond the borders of the project.
Short summary of the film:
The LIFE Lynx project has brought 18 lynx from healthy populations in the Carpathian Mountains to Slovenia and Croatia, with an aim to introduce new genes in a highly inbreed Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population. The project has joined experts, conservationists, researchers, and hunters from five European countries, with a common goal – saving the lynx from extinction. In addition to lynx translocations, the international team is also monitoring the lynx, preventing illegal killing, and promoting acceptance of the large carnivore among the local people. Key stakeholders – the hunters from Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Romania and Slovakia – are actively involved in the project, which builds on the approach from the 70s, when hunters and foresters reintroduced the lynx to the Slovenian forests. Together we will help save the lynx, Europe’s largest wild cat.