The Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme Newsletter (December, 2023)

The Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme Newsletter is a publication which promotes the most important news and achievements of all partners involved in the Programme. This issue covers news [...]

Honoring our endangered big cat on International Lynx Day

Raising public awareness for biodiversity is one of the main pillars in the work of conservationists. Year-round, many days are dedicated to commemorate and shed some light on various endangered [...]

Lynx capture at Bukovikj locality

New lynx is here! 12 February 2020 the lynx team of the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) box-trapped a new individual of the rare Balkan lynx in Bukovikj, near the town of Kichevo. [...]

Balkan Lynx Partner Meeting in Peja, Kosovo

A kick-off meeting for the fifth phase of the Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme took place in Pejа, Kosovo in the beginning of October this year. The meeting was attended by the partners from MES, [...]

Balkan lynx education in primary schools complete

Last week, 30 and 31 May 2019, we rounded off the educational activities for the schoolchildren of the primary schools in the Municipality of Mavrovo and Rostushe. Educational activities, [...]

New male lynx collared in Mavrovo National Park

Another lynx got a GPS collar in Mavrovo National Park to track its movement. On 27 February, together with Park staff, we managed to collar this individual and now we are successfully tracking [...]

The largest Balkan lynx captured in Mavrovo National Park

This weekend marked the capture of another Balkan lynx individual, near the village Sence, Mavrovo National Park, sixth in a row ever since the research inception in 2010 using radio-telemetry [...]

Lynx education week

MES initiated its educational caravan in Western Macedonia as part of the Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme. The educational caravan visited the villages of Vejce and Shipkovica, on Shar Mountain, [...]