While we were doing our regular field work this weekend, we were accompanied by Dirk Auer, a Berlin-based journalist. We are extremely pleased with the interest of foreign media for our project and delighted to share our experience with him, but also to have the opportunity to hear his experience from other areas. In addition to field work and browsing the lynx camera trap materials, Dirk had the opportunity to meet with a beautiful...
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On Friday 8.3.2019. in the village Crni lug, Vedran Slijepčević from the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Karlovac presented fresh results from the past year of camera trapping. He also anounced the release of the romanian lynx which will take place in the next few weeks. Among the big public, there was a great number of hunters who expressed their interest in project activities. We were especially flattered by the support of dr. sc....
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Members of LIFE Lynx project team regularly cooperate with other lynx projects in Europe. In this way we exchange experiences and data, which help us towards more successful conservation and research of the European lynx populations. These days Slovenian project team members from Dept. for Forestry, Biotechnical faculty joined colleagues from the Macedonian Ecological Society and National Park Mavrovo for fieldwork in the park. The...
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The Head of the LIFE Programme at the European Commission, Mr Angelo Salsi, visited Slovenia on 26th and 27th of November. The visit was organized by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning. Mr Salsi visited some of the most interesting and successful LIFE projects currently taking place in Slovenia, including the LIFE Lynx project. In the field, we briefly introduced him key project topics, then we watched the film Path...
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On 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,...
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In the middle of April, a three day international workshop was organized in Ljubljana in the frame of LIFE DINALP BEAR and LIFE Lynx. The goal of the workshop was to share experience and identify best practices for communication activities in large carnivore conservation and management across Europe and from North America as well as challenges and opportunities in working with different key stakeholder groups. On the last day,...
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From 8th to 12th October project team visited another EU LIFE project LIFE Luchs Pfarzerwald in Palatinate Forest (Germany), where project leader Sylvia Idelberger and her team are making efforts to reintroduce the lynx. The lynx in Palatinate Forest was extinct in 19th century, and teams from Stiftung Natur und Umwelt Rheinland – Pfalz and other project partners are now bringing it back. They started their work in 2015 and have...
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Representatives of Croatian Agency for environment and nature and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb visited Junta de Andalucia to learn about the implementation of LIFE Iberlince project “Recovery of the historical distribution for Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) in Spain and Portugal“ (LIFE10NAT/ES/570). Small and endangered Dinaric Eurasian lynx population is facing similar conservation and management problems as...
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On 28 September 2018 the Progetto Lince Italia was invited to present the lynx conservation actions and the LIFE Lynx project at the Biodiversity Conference in Rome that was organized by Carabinieri Forestali. The audience was made up of students of elementary, middle and high schools, students of the Carabinieri officers school, representatives of the major Italian environmental organizations and the press. More than 250 people were...
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At the 13th Croatian Biological Conference, held on 19.-23. September 2018 in Poreč (Croatia), we presented the establishment of lynx population monitoring in Croatia by photo-traps. With the participation on the conference, we highlighted the issues of lynx population vulnerability and presented camera trapping methods used in LIFE Lynx project, not only for confirming the distribution of the current population, but also for...
Read MoreA representative of a LIFE Lynx project is participating at the ”Pathways – Human Dimensions of Fisheries and Wildlife” Conference in Goslar, Germany. The conference gathered around 350 scientists and experts from diverse professions and disciplines, all with mutual goal – to share their experiences and improve future human-wildlife coexistence. We are proud to participate in a project and to contribute to...
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