The latest inhabitant of Dinaric forests, which came from Romania, was named after a Croatian forester Alojzije Frković. Mr Frković was an exceptional man, who left tremendous contributions to monitoring of Dinaric lynx population and significantly improved Croatian hunting management. This is our way of symbolic appreciation. In this short film, his wife Zrinka Frković and close co-workers are talking about the life and work of Mr....
Read MoreOn Saturday, June 8, the Zagreb ZOO celebrated its 94th birthday and at the same time marked the International Lynx Day in cooperation with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and associations BIOM and WWF. Zoo visitors had the opportunity to find out more about the biology of lynx and why the population in the Dinaric Mountains is endangered. In addition, LIFE Lynx team from the faculty presented the equipment and the methodology for...
Read MoreThe town of Senj, in cooperation with the National Park North Velebit, marked the 16th International Mountain Day with a full day program in the village Krasno. At this year’s edition, doc.dr.sc. Magda Sindičić from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb, presented the LIFE Lynx project and related activities in the area of Velebit Mountain. After her lecture titled “The Path of Lynx”, a projection of the LIFE...
Read MoreOn Friday, November 16th 2018, the National Zoological Garden Bojnice hosted an international conference „Path of the Slovak lynx“. Representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions participated at the event. Jakub Kubala and Branislav Tám from ZOO Bojnice presented information on the current state of the lynx population in the Slovak Carpathians, international conservation and management of the lynx. Furthermore,...
Read MorePremiere of the documentary film »Path of the lynx« was held at the Department of Biology, Biotechnical faculty in Ljubljana on June 28th, 2018. Prof. dr. Ivan Kos, head of Animal ecology group delivered welcome speech to more than 50 participants. Afterwards, doc. dr. Tomaž Skrbinšek presented main goals of the LIFE Lynx project and highlighted threats faced by the lynx population in Slovenia. The film was followed by a presentation...
Read MoreCroatian premiere of our documentary Path of the Lynx was held in Karlovac on June 20th. We are grateful to City library „Ivan Goran Kovačić“ Karlovac for hosting us in their beautiful amphitheater, and to University of Karlovac for their support in organization of this event. Welcome speeches were delivered by Vedran Slijepčević, coordinator of LIFE Lynx project for University of Karlovac, Vinko Pavlić, president of Hunting...
Read MoreLIFE Lynx project team joined the celebration of the International Lynx Day, which we celebrate on June 11th. The initiative for celebration of the day dedicated to Europe biggest wild cat came from Interreg project 3Lynx. LIFE Lynx project team prepared two premieres of the film Path of the Lynx. The first premiere was in Kinodvor Ljubljana on June 11th, and the second one was on June 14th in Kočevje. Kočevje is closely connected to...
Read MoreThe LIFE Lynx project is pleased to announce the release of our film trailer, Path of the Lynx. This 25 minute film focuses on the historic efforts of hunters in former Yugoslavia to conserve Eurasian lynx. The film will premiere in June of 2018. Details of the venue and release date will be forthcoming. Until than we invite you to watch our trailer posted on...
Read MoreDocumentary Film Series: The Role of Hunters as Conservationists, Lynx Reinforcement, and Short Video Clips on Project Activities We will produce a two-part documentary film focused on hunter involvement in historic lynx reintroduction efforts in the 1970s (Part I) and chronicle their role and the role of other beneficiaries and stakeholders in the current reinforcement effort (Part II). The overall goals of the two-part film(s)...
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