Female Balkan lynx fitted with tracking device
Our partners from the North Macedonian nature conservation organisation MES have fitted a Balkan lynx with a tracking device. The female, named Narcisa, was trapped by the biologists on 12 February before being examined and fitted with a GPS transmitter.
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EU becomes active for Romania's primeval forests
EU announces legal action against Romania for illegal logging of Europe’s last natural forests.
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ECJ Judgement: No Relaxation of Protection for Wolves
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has placed very tight constraints on the granting of permits allowing wolves to be shot. In their ruling on 10 October, the judges concluded that stringent conditions must first be met before any wolves are killed.
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New figures: More wolf packs in Western Poland
++ Results of wolf monitoring show at least 95 settled packs ++ Sudetes are also wolf territory again ++
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New home in Croatia for Romanian lynx
Doru, a four-year-old lynx from the Romanian Carpathians, has been released back into the wild in the Risnjak National Park in Croatia. Doru is the first lynx to be relocated as part of the LIFE Lynx project in order to strengthen the lynx population in the Dinarides.
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Reunited with Maya
On 18 March last year, a female Balkan lynx called Maya was fitted with a tracking device. Over the past year, this has been providing scientists from the Macedonian Balkan lynx team of our partner organisation MES
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Mavrovo-Nationalpark: Demand for a halt to construction of hydroelectric power plants
Bern Convention: Macedonian government requested to halt construction of hydropower plants in national park
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Ray of hope for Balkan Lynx
The Balkan Lynx has to be strictly protected as a distinct subspecies of the Eurasian Lynx. This decision has been adopted unanimously at the meeting of the Berne Convention’s Standing Committee on December 5th.
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Three lynxes caught by camera trap in Albania and Macedonia
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Maya’s new necklace
In Macedonia’s Stogovo mountain range, nature conservationists have succeeded in catching a female Balkan lynx and fitting her with a tracking device. Scientists hope the data they gather will tell them more about this rare creature with its tufted ears so that they will be able protect it even more effectively in future.
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