For the first time, systematic lynx monitoring with camera traps was conducted in Slovenian Dinaric mountains. Monitoring lasted from August 2018 to April 2019 in the scope of three different projects. Collaboration of hunters was essential for a successful implementation of the monitoring; together with 63 hunters from 35 hunting grounds we set up 191 camera traps! The cameras recorded lynx at 34 locations in 14 hunting grounds. They...
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Within the project we designed special hair traps, so that we could collect more genetic material of lynx. We prepared instructions on how to install hair traps and how to collect genetic material – hair. Hair trap is made of two parts: active coil spring and passive hair pad. A dedicated sampling kit was designed for each and prepared in Slovenian, Croatian and Italian language. ...
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We received first photos from camera traps that we set in Slovenian forests. In august we started with intensive monitoring, and until now we have set almost 100 cameras. Hopefully we will get many more pictures or videos as good as these first ones from Kočevska region. https://www.lifelynx.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Kočevsko__00001-1.mp4 ...
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