With the opening of schools after the release of the covid-19 restrictions, it is only time for activities that are slightly different from those on the screens. Thus, at the end of April and in May, we carried-out workshops for Young lynx guardians at the Slovenian primary schools of Dragotin Kette in Ilirska Bistrica, the primary school of 16th December in Mojstrana and Josip Vandot in Kranjska Gora. Pupils examined the skulls of...
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We share with you some International Lynx Day impressions from ZOO Ljubljana and Mašun Forest house where visitors learned more about lynx and other large carnivores. Through educational materials and lynx identification games children and their parents discovered how LIFE Lynx researchers help save the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx from extinction.
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Since 2018, by the 3Lynx project initiative, we are celebrating the International Lynx Day on June 11. This year many projects, organizations and other initiatives joined forces and prepared celebrations in seven European countries – Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Germany, France, Czech Republic and Switzerland. Check on the interactive map that we prepared, which events and other activities are going on in your country. ...
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On March 16, we co-organized an online lecture for university students about large carnivores in Slovenia. Coexistence with large carnivores and the importance of education for creating positive attitudes towards them were two main topics presented and discussed with the participants. A part of the lecture was dedicated to the Eurasian lynx, with the focus on the research about the knowledge and attitudes in primary school students...
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In the last week, primary school students from the Community of schools of the Julian Alps Biosphere Reserve have submitted name proposals for the first lynx to be translocated to Gorenjska. 120 names proposed by students from 17 primary schools were scored by an expert committee consisting of project ambassador Anže Kopitar, actor Nik Škrlec, LIFE NATURAVIVA project coordinator Maja Opalički Slabe, Miha Marolt from Triglav national...
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Nine schools in Slovenia are cooperating with us within the Young Lynx Guardians programme. But now lynx can be part of lessons in other schools as well. A new handbook for teachers in the upper grades of primary school entitled “Ecology and conservation biology of lynxes” was published. The content of this manual follows the school curriculum and helps teachers explain certain topics on the example of lynx. The manual consists of...
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At the beginning of October, we held a lecture and workshop about lynx and lynx introductions from the Carpathians at the Kočevje Gymnasium and Secondary School. The last part of the workshop was dedicated to role playing activity – a discussion where every student is assigned a role part of a different stakeholder and defends their position. The purpose of the role playing activity was for high school students to learn about...
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In the scope of project activity Young guardians of the lynx, the pupils of the Sodražica Primary School have suggested 58 names for the third lynx we brought to Slovenia. They have also greeted his arrival with many drawings they’ve made. Before Boris was released into the wild, 20 of these pupils had also seen this lynx live. “Boris was quite restless when he arrived, so be quiet as we approach the quarantine enclosure,”...
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A new lynx arrived from Romania to Slovenia today. He is a young male, a “teenager”. Who could be better suited to naming this lynx, if not the children and teenagers who live in the area where the lynx will be released? The project team asked school children from Sodražica to give their suggestions for the name. At the end of the winter we created a programme »Young Guardians of Lynx« for Sodražica Primary School together with Mojca...
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Participation and involvement of young people are crucial in building the coexistence of lynx and humans, and we therefore have a foreseen collaboration with the schools within the Young Lynx Guardians programme within the LIFE Lynx project. On February, 13 2020 we made the first contact with The France Prešeren Kranj high school through a lecture about lynx and large carnivores by Urša Fležar from the Biotechnical Faculty and the...
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As a part of the educational campaign in local schools, on Tuesday, March 27. 2019., we held a lynx workshop in Elementary school Vrbovsko as part of the LIFE Lynx open door day. It was organized by the members of the LIFE Lynx team, Vedran Slijepčević and Ira Topličanec, in cooperation with Mario Šlat, member of the hunting association “Jelenski jarak” from Vrbovsko. The purpose of this workshop was to educate the...
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