LIFE Lynx project team organized a field trip for volunteers of Society Dinaricum on Tuesday, May 30th. We presented them the LIFE Lynx project and showed them a good example of cooperation and stakeholder involvement in large carnivore issues on the field. Part of our field trip was dedicated to cooperation with representatives of LIFE DINALP BEAR project from Slovenia Forest Service. We helped to set up high electric fence...
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LIFE Slovenia held an information workshop for applicants for LIFE funding in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They presented the latest news about LIFE 2018 call for applications and its changes in the themes Nature, Environment and Climate change. Project coordinator Rok Černe from Slovenia Forest Service presented his experience with application of LIFE DINALP BEAR and LIFE Lynx projects, which are both international projects with large number...
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Regarding the new call for LIFE program opened on April 18, 2018, for period 2018-2020, the National Contact Point (NCP) for Croatia organized LIFE INFO DAY and exhibition of currently ongoing LIFE projects. Presentations were held by the representatives of NCP and EASME, as well as beneficiaries from LIFE projects. During breaks LIFE DINALP BEAR and LIFE Lynx projects were presented by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagreb large...
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On April 10th at 18:00 on Karlovac University of Applied Sciences, Magda Sindičić and Vedran Slijepčević held a LIFE Lynx project presentation “LIFE Lynx: Research and conservation of lynx population in Dinarics”. After the LIFE Lynx presentation, Slaven Reljić from LIFE DINALP BEAR project held a presentation of activities within the project. Presentations were organized with ALUMNI VUKA and were attended by 65 students,...
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Lynx in Slovenia- Research and solutions for preventing lynx extinction is the title of a lecture from dr.Miha Krofel that will be held on Tuesday, 3rd April at Miran Jarc Library in Novo mesto. The lecture is organized as part of lecture cycle organized by “Bober” society from Dolenjska region. With these lectures they want to raise awareness about the environment. We invite you to participate and discover more about the mysterious...
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International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) had their Winter Meeting in Slovenia. Students from Italy, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia visited Slovenian FoResty Insitute and Slovenia Forest Service. We presented them the activities from projects:, LIFE Lynx, Interreg 3Lynx, LIFE DINALP BEAR, LIFE ClimatePath2050, CIA2SFM, LIFEGENMON, and Forest of...
Read More“Communication in large carnivore conservation and management” is a title of a networking and experience exchange workshop which will be hosted by the University of Ljubljana within the frames of LIFE Lynx and LIFE DINALP BEAR projects from 16th to 18th April 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Both LIFE Lynx and LIFE DINALP BEAR projects are focused nature conservation projects with a strong stakeholder dialogue and collaboration component....
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As part of the “LIFE info day” in Split, organized by LIFE national contact point for Croatia, Association Biom presented LIFE Lynx project as an example of ongoing LIFE Nature project. Altogether around 50 participants showed their interest in future applications. We were happy to share our experiences and encourage others to apply to LIFE programme. Looking forward to new LIFE projects in the region!...
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March 3rd is officially World Wildlife Day as proclaimed by United Nations General Assembly in 2013. On this day in 1973 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was signed. This year the day is celebrated under the theme “Big cats: predators under threat”. Big cats are among the most widely recognized and admired animals, but they are also facing threats, many of them caused by...
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On Wednesday 21st of February, in a village Grižane in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, lecturers doc. dr. sc. Magda Sindičić (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb), Zrinka Domazetović (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy), Petar Raos (Ministry of Agriculture) and Ivan Žgela (Police station Crikvenica) introduced local communities to large carnivore management, current population status and their legal...
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From 25th to 26th of January 2018 project partners together with LIFE DINALP BEAR project partners participated on a workshop on monitoring and capturing large carnivores in Tarvisio Italy. The main goal of this workshop was exchanging information between projects, viewing the locations and learning about the methods used by Italian forest service (Corpo Forestale) and Progetto Lince Italia. Project partners from Progetto Lince Italia...
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