Mar 20, 2024 · Slovenia's lynx population has grown to some 50 adults since a dozen new animals have been relocated to the country's forests to revive the gene pool and save the species from re-extinction as part of an EU-funded project that is now coming to an end.

Speakers from Austria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland gave an in-depth view to different lynx populations across Europe and their current conservation status and the issues concerning lynx; from reintroduction efforts, to stakeholders involvement and fighting illegal killing of lynxes and other wildlife.

Jul 12, 2017 · Because lynx in Slovenia and neighboring countries are facing extinction, authorities are about to launch the international Life Lynx project, which will resettle 14 animals from Slovakia and Romania. Inbreeding is a key reason for the decline in the lynx population, which is ongoing. Foto: Pixabay Foto:

Jul 26, 2024 · How to save the Eurasian lynx population in the Dinarides and the South-Eastern Alps from extinction again? This is the challenge that the LIFE Lynx project, in which the Biotechnical Faculty of UL participated as a partner, has successfully tackled.

Nov 7, 2023 · The Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population went extinct at the beginning of 20th century due to hunting and persecution, habitat loss and lack of prey species. It was successfully reintroduced in the 1973 by translocating animals from a Carpathian source to Slovenia.

STA, 20 January 2022 - The Slovenian lynx population appears to have come back from the brink of extinction and is now thriving thanks to animals that had been relocated from Romania and Slovakia to expand the heavily inbred population's gene pool.

The current project aims to translocate a total of 14 lynx from the closest healthy lynx population in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia and Romania to the Dinaric Mountains and Alps in Slovenia and Croatia.

Slovenia is continuing their vision to conserve lynx for future generations, by adopting Strategy and Action Plan for Conservation and sustainable management of Eurasian Lynx for the Period 2024-2033, where concrete actions are defined.

Sep 11, 2023 · A new documentary film showing how the EU-backed Life Lynx project is trying to save the lynx population of the Dinaric and South-East Alpine regions from yet another extinction premiered at Ljubljana's Kinodvor cinema on 11 September, accompanied by the launch of two children's books on the topic.

Thirteen lynxes have already been released into the wild – four in Croatia and nine in Slovenia. »The vast majority of them have survived, all of them have remained in the area for now, where there are also other lynxes.