In the period 21-25 October 2013, representatives from MES attended a workshop for Eurasian Lynx Research and Conservation Workshop held in Bern, Switzerland. The workshop was organised by the Swiss organisation KORA, and besides MES, participants also included people from the University of Lvov and Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology in Kiev from Ukraine, the Technical University of Zvolen, Slovak Wildlife Society and ZOO Bojnice from Slovakia.
The workshop was dedicated to the scientific approaches for the conservation of the Eurasian lynx population, with emphasis on the critically endangered Balkan lynx in Macedonia, and the autochthonous and reintroduced Carpathian lynx populations in Ukraine and Slovakia, and in Switzerland, respectively. With presentations and discussions, the participants provided a short overview of theories and concepts for studying and conserving lynx and practical field applications and data analysis and management.