During November and December, the Slovak LIFE Lynx team focused on the final preparation and implementation of the 2021/22 lynx capturing season. Its members built two more box traps in the Volovec Mountains project area and at the same time started realization of the deterministic Eurasian lynx camera trapping in the Vepor Mountains project area. At the beginning of December, the Slovak team also hosted colleagues from Ukraine within...
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LIFE Lynx genetics team from Biotechnical faculty in Ljubljana visited the LECA Institute (Laboratorie d’Ecologie Alpine) in Grenoble, which is one of the main genetic laboratories in Europe working with environmental DNA (samples of water and soil) and large carnivore DNA. For three weeks, both teams were working together on a new method to learn how to extract the DNA from environmental samples, such as snow and water. With this...
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In the beginning of November 2021, Rewilding Europe organized a gathering of rewilding practitioners in a scenic village Pettorano Sul Gizio in Italian Apennine Mountains. LIFE Lynx project was one of the twenty project and organizations from 14 European countries present at the event. In five days of presentations, workshops, brainstorming sessions, and field visits, the participants exchanged experiences in working on different...
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At the beginning of November, environmental activists from 12 countries met in Germany at the “European Climate Camp”, where Andrei Dinu, an ACDB representative of the Romanian LIFE Lynx team, proudly presented the biodiversity conservation initiative he’s part of – LIFE Lynx. In nine days of the European Climate Youth Camp 2021, young environmentalists and climate activists from Europe and Central America had the chance to connect...
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In September, a representative of the Slovak LIFE Lynx project team from the Technical University in Zvolen, together with partners from the Bojnice National Zoo, implemented a working visit to Ukraine. The subject of the visit was the exchange of experiences with Ukrainian partners from WWF Ukraine and the University of Lviv, as well as the preparation and implementation of long-term systematic monitoring of the lynx and relevant...
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Exchanging knowledge is one of the moving forces of progress and it is the same when the topic is lynx conservation. In the middle of October, LIFE projects working with large carnivores from Slovenia and Italy (LIFE Lynx and LIFE WolfAlps EU) visited Andalusia. The purpose of the visit was meeting with one of the most successful lynx reinforcement projects in Europe – LIFE Iberlince projects that have already finished, and the...
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Approximately twice a year the whole LIFE Lynx project team meets to evaluate the work done so far and to prepare plans for the work ahead. After more than a year, team members met in person and for the first time in Romania. The Steering group meeting took place in the beautiful scenery of the town Lepsa in the Putna-Vrancea Natural Park. After the meeting, partners from ACDB organized a two-day excursions in the Carpathian Mountains...
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The Romania National Forest association – Romsilva is an official collaborator of the European project LIFE Lynx, coordinated by the Slovenia Forest Service, through which several lynxes from Romania will be captured and relocated in the Dinaric and Southern Eastern Alps to save lynx population in this area. At the headquarters of the National Forest Regia – Romsilva in Bucharest a working meeting took place on Thursday,...
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At the beginning of summer, we took a Slovenian NGO ZaŽivali! to an excursion to a typical habitat of lynx and other large carnivores. On the way to the top of the Mokrc Mountain, we stopped at the landscape features, which could be used by lynx for passage, resting or marking, such as bigger rocks, fallen trees and forest roads. We explained how researchers take advantage of these elements to study lynx and to monitor the lynx...
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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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