Exactly 10 weeks ago lynx Lubomir (immediately nicknamed Ljubo) arrived in Croatia. This adult male, captured in Slovakia, was released on location Rizvanuša, near town Gospić, in hunting ground Ramino korito managed by the Rewilding Velebit Foundation. All other lynxes that were released in Croatia before Ljubo came out of the transport box and left the release location in lightning speed. However, after exiting the box Ljubo...
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The last lynx monitoring season (September 2021 – April 2022) in Slovenia was completed successfully. More than in any other year, lynx kittens were making an appearance in front of the cameras and we obtained high quality images from Menišija, Racna Gora, Mala Gora, Jelovica and Kočevska Reka. For the first time, a female with four cubs was recorded throughout the entire season; this is the resident female Petra, which has been...
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The video footage shows a female lynx from the edge of Mala Gora: offspring of Teja and Goru from the 2020-2021 litter. As is common for females, she established her territory close to her mother’s, while her brother Niko, as a typical male, dispersed further away, to the border area between Bela Krajina (Slovenia) and Ravna Gora (Croatia). Video credit: Struge Hunting Club...
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During the mating season, we can always expect intensified lynx interactions. Our colleague from Biotechnical Faculty, Forestry department prepared three animations of lynx movements using GPS data from their telemetry collars. In the first one, you can see all males (Catalin, Goru, Igi and Klif) during their mating trips. Lynxes Klif and Petra, from Kočevsko region, who had four male kittens last season, of which all survived until...
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In the beginning of May, we received a mortality signal from the telemetry collar of lynx Igi, a resident Slovenian lynx that we monitored with telemetry since February this year. We immediately visited the last locations sent by the collar and found Igi’s carcass, showing severe loss of weight but no visible injuries. The carcass was taken to the Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, for examination and autopsy to...
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Three years ago, on May 14, Goru, the first lynx captured within the LIFE Lynx project, was released in Slovenia, becoming the first lynx included in the Dinaric SE-Alpine lynx population since 1973. Thanks to two successful GPS collar deployments, we’ve been monitoring Goru’s movements since his release in 2019. This provided us an incredible amount of data, from which we obtained crucial information about his role in the population,...
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On Wednesday, March 30, Croatian LIFE Lynx team managed to capture and successfully fit with a collar another lynx in the Lika region, Croatia. The adult remnant male weighed 24 kg and we estimated him to be around 5 years old. We have already known him since 2019 from camera traps set in PP Velebit and nicknamed him Pandora. Pandora is also holding the record as the most photographed lynx on Velebit as we have more than 60 recorded...
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Aida’s kittens were the first confirmed lynx reproduction in Gorenjska region the scope of the LIFE Lynx project. Aida was released into Jelovica forests together with male lynx Zois in April 2021. Just four months later, lucky hikers stumbled upon about a month old lynx kittens. Since then we regularly got some hints that the kittens are with their mother, but now we got proof that at least one of them survived the winter. A...
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Last week, Slovenian LIFE Lynx project team managed to equip another two lynxes with new telemetry collars in Slovenian Dinaric Mountains. One of them was lynx Catalin, who was translocated from Romania and released in Snežnik forests back in 2020. He was already equipped with a collar but batteries on it would drain soon, therefore we replaced it with a new collar, which will enable us to prolong tracking of his movements and...
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On Sunday, February 13, 2022 in the morning, biologists from the Biotechnical Faculty received an alarm about a triggered trap in the area of Mala Gora near Ribnica. With the help of a GSM camera trap, they saw that they captured a juvenile lynx. Later on, they discovered that it is a young female l, approximately 9 months old and weighing 12 kg. Most probably, it is one of the three last-years cubs of the resident female lynx Teja...
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On February 4, 2022, LIFE Lynx project managed to capture not one, but two lynxes from the remnant population in Dinaric Mountains. In Nature Nark Velebit, Croatian team captured an adult male named Josip. He is a big male who weighed 27 kg and we estimate him to be around 5 years old. He is present on our camera traps in the Nature Park since December 2019, and now we will gain a better insight into his life with the help of the...
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