First workshops were organised in Croatia. Within an open door day in Krasno the school children were divided into two groups, depending on their age. While the younger group coloured lynx silhouettes, the older played a game in photo-identification. Second Open door day in Croatia was carried out in Primary school Vrbovsko, in cooperation with a local hunter. In Slovenia after having a workshop and a field trip with Young Guardians...
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With the new online interactive lessons, you can test your knowledge about lynx, step into the shoes of a researcher, find lynx’ prey, or learn how to set up a camera trap to photograph a lynx. The lessons are designed for children aged 6 to 9, but everyone is welcome to play and test their knowledge. Even with wrong answers, you can learn something new! Enjoy the game. You can download these lessons also via a QR code placed on the...
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Last week, the Young Lynx Guardians from the Josip Vandot Kranjska Gora Primary School came to Jelovica for an excursion. They visited the enclosure where Zois and Aida spent their time adapting to their new environment under the watchful eyes of the Nomenj-Gorjuše hunting club. They also experienced the forest through the eyes of a field worker and played a game to understand the food web and the role of the lynx in the forest...
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Any? That’s right, whether for school, about dog training or a love novel for summer reading. The lynx that are under the eye of the Young Lynx Guardians have now found their way onto the bookmarks. The Young Lynx Guardians programme introduces the lynx to the pupils through a workshop and a field day. This is followed by an event where the Young Guardians present what they had done as part of the programme. The purpose of the...
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We are working with nine schools as part of the Young Lynx Guardians project. In addition to the workshop and field day, some schools have additional lynx-related activities. For example, pupils from Dragotin Kette Primary School in Ilirska Bistrica, led by teacher Suzi Avsec, produced videos of forest animals. Where did they get the videos? One automatic camera was borrowed from the cameras used to monitor lynx, and one was added by...
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In the last week before the beginning of the summer holidays, the project LIFE Lynx held two field excursions with primary schools involved in our Young Lynx Guardian Programme. On Monday, June 20, we hiked the Lynx educational trail at Jelenov studenec above Kočevje with the sixth and seventh grade students of Sodražica Elementary School and visited the lynx enclosure in Loško Potok. On the lynx trail, we learned about the life and...
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Here it is – the third lynx named by the children! The male lynx waiting for release in the Snežnik enclosure was named by the pupils of the Dragotin Kette Primary School in Ilirska Bistrica in cooperation with the Large Carnivores Centre DINA Pivka. Because the lynx jumps onto its prey, as quick as lightning, they named him Blisk (in Eng. lightning). There were several suggestions for the name though… The DINA Pivka...
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The pupils and teachers of the Dragotin Kette Primary School have already proposed names for the lynx, which was recently transported from the Romanian Carpathians to a quarantine enclosure in the Snežnik foothills. In total, 19 names have been collected. Now an expert committee is at work to select the candidates for the final vote. The name must be short, simple and in any way linked to the local community, the forest, the lynx or...
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Last week, a lynx, temporarily “named” RO11, arrived from the Romanian Carpathian Mountains to Slovenia’s Snežník forests. He will stay there until mid- May when he will be released into nature, with a new name, that will be chosen for him by DINA Pivka Large Carnivore Information Center and local schoolchildren. Students from the Dragotina Ketteja Primary School in Ilirska Bistrica were asked to help with the name...
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On Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, we held a seminar for teachers at Mestni vrh near Kočevje. We were very warmly welcomed in the Cottage at Jelen’s Studenec – both with the service and with the fire in the fireplace. Outside on the trail, the temperatures were still quite low. The two seminars on the Lynx Educational Trail were the last of the six seminars planned for the project. We introduced the project to the...
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Kristina Oiclj, a student at Kočevje Secondary School, presented her thoughts on the lynx in a slightly different way. The comic entitled Large carnivores – The Lynx was created under the mentorship of her teacher, Zorica Potisk as part of the interdisciplinary thematic project G.R.E.T.A., based on the lecture and workshop we held at the school as part of the LIFE Lynx project. This October, we also had a field excursion with...
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