Despite the peculiar times, the team of ACDB, Romanian partner in the LIFE Lynx project, doesn’t rest. With already three areas for lynx capturing established in cooperation with Romsilva and Natural Park Putna – Vrancea, they added another area in November 2020. Two box traps are set in the area of Tarcău Mountains, where hunters of Romsilva helped with the micro locations and setting of the traps. Altogether 10 box traps...
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Good luck Alojzije! Enjoy the Velebit Mountains, your new home.
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Today, the ACDB society successfully transported the first lynx from Romania to Slovenia this year for reinforcement of Dinaric-SE Alpine population. They named this lynx Catalin (Romanian Cătălin), after a local Romanian hunter that was involved in successful capturing of the lynx in Romania. Catalin is now resting in the quarantine enclosure in the State managed hunting ground Jelen in the Snežnik area. Hunters from the hunting...
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The lynx caught in Romania is soon to be translocated to Croatia. We are waiting for the results for rabies and then the lynx will be ready for transport. Until then we are sharing some recent pictures of the lynx Alojzije! He got his name after the Croatian researcher Alojzije Frković dipl. ing. of forestry. Alojzije was an expert who influenced hunting in Croatia. He was also the main researcher for the lynx population in...
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The year 2020 started really good for our project. After the last week’s success, when the Romanian team captured their first lynx this year, they did it again. They captured another lynx. It is an adult four to five years old male lynx. Currently both lynxes are in the quarantine in Romania. One will be translocated to Croatia and one to Slovenia. Congratulations to the ACDB team and ROMSILVA on another success and keep up the good...
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Romanian LIFE Lynx team started the new lynx capturing season with a great success. Just after 3 days since the activation of box traps, they captured a lynx. A healthy 5-6 year old male lynx will be the new inhabitant of the quarantine enclosure in Romania and he will stay there for at least 30 days. After that, the lynx will be translocated to Paklenica National Park in Croatia. Congratulations to the ACDB team, Romsilva and also to...
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Part of the Slovenian and Croatian LIFE Lynx team has joined the ACDB project partner in Romania. The main purpose of the visit is to help set up box traps on a field and arrange for future captures and translocations of lynx from Romania to Slovenia and Croatia. In addition to setting new traps, a lot of time will also be spent to maintaining the locations of existing traps. In first days of the visit, we’ve set an extra box trap at...
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Genetic monitoring of lynx population is a key activity in the LIFE Lynx project. Even implemented at a lower scale in Romania we relay on the information from genetic monitoring to have a better understanding of the genetic structure of lynx in the Carpathians and to improve our approach on choosing the trapping sites. In the season 2018/2019 Romanian team gathered 47 samples, that were analyzed at genetics laboratory at Biotechnical...
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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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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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