A glimpse of the wildlife biologist’s life condensed in an extended weekend in the beautiful Lika Region. Together with two women in the wildlife part of the Croatian team of the LIFE Lynx project – Ivana Selanec and Ira Topličanec, I spent some time last December. This experience reminded me of the requirements and of the privileges of this type of job: being ready to travel, having a deep connection with the territory,...
Read MoreOn Saturday, June 8, the Zagreb ZOO celebrated its 94th birthday and at the same time marked the International Lynx Day in cooperation with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and associations BIOM and WWF. Zoo visitors had the opportunity to find out more about the biology of lynx and why the population in the Dinaric Mountains is endangered. In addition, LIFE Lynx team from the faculty presented the equipment and the methodology for...
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On Tuesday, 12 of February 2019., LIFE fair was held in the Little Hall Vatroslav Lisinski. The fair was organized under the LIFE conference entitled “Results and Benefits of LIFE Projects” where Magda Sindičić held a lecture on the implementation of the LIFE Lynx project in Croatia and presented it to the wider audience. In addition to LIFE Lynx, ten other projects, within the LIFE financial program of the European...
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Reportage about research of Balkan lynx population was broadcasted on AlJazeera Balkans. They also talked to representative of our project from Croatia Magda Sindičić about the threats to the future of small and isolated lynx...
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On the first weekend of December, the Croatian project team went on a field trip to Sv. Rok in Lika region with their co-workers from the Velebit Nature Park. On Sunday they were joined by the RTL.hr reporting team who wanted to present the work behind the LIFE Lynx project to the public. Although the coverage transmitted that the presence of lynx in southern Velebit had just been discovered, we would like to correct this information...
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We prepared a project leaflet with basic information about the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population and how we will help save it from another extinction. The leaflet will be distributed by project partners at events organized in LIFE Lynx...
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Association Biom, one of the LIFE Lynx project partners, published an article about lynx in their annual magazine “Pogled u divljinu”. “Do we need the lynx?” is a question that is tackling them. What they think about it you can check here (only in Croatian).
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