Iskanje po repozitoriju

A+ | A- | | SLO | ENG

Povzetek: Collaborative wildlife monitoring programs involving citizen scientists are an efficient approach for surveying large areas. In Europe, hunters play an important role in wildlife monitoring and act as crucial stakeholders in large carnivore conservation. The Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx, an elusive felid, is a species of conservation concern in Europe. In Slovenia, lynx was exterminated and later reintroduced in 1973, but the population has declined during the past decades. A reinforcement program was initiated in 2017, translocating lynx from the Carpathian population to improve the status of the critically endangered Dinaric population. The reinforcement was coupled with an intensive monitoring program, involving local hunters as key participants. In this study, we show how the collaboration between wildlife managers, researchers and hunters resulted in a robust assessment of the lynx population at a national level for a period of five years. Questionnaires distributed to hunting clubs and chance observations were used to define the expected lynx distribution, and guide the extent of systematic camera trapping surveys, involving between 63 and 101 hunters each year. In southern Slovenia, the core of the lynx population, lynx density doubled during the reinforcement period (from 0.66 to 1.30 lynx/100 km2). In north-western Slovenia where a stepping-stone population in the Alps was established in 2021, the number of lynx increased to seven. Furthermore, all three translocated females reproduced, which represents the first confirmed lynx reproduction in the Slovenian Alps in over 150 years. We discuss the motivation behind the hunters' contribution to the data collection process and the implications of this collaboration. We highlight the importance of maintaining the collaboration and their support for lynx conservation. This study serves as an example for large-scale collaborative monitoring of a recovering population undergoing intensive conservation measures with promising results, involving crucial stakeholders as citizen scientists.
Ključne besede: camera trapping, citizen science, density, reinforcement, spatial capture recapture
Objavljeno v DiRROS: 26.01.2026; Ogledov: 574; Prenosov: 417
Celotno besedilo (1,65 MB)
Gradivo ima več datotek! Več...

Povzetek: Slovenija ima bogate izkušnje s trajnostnim upravljanjem in varstvom populacij velikih zveri, zato marsikje v svetu velja za zgled na področju upravljanja populacij medveda, volka in risa. V preteklosti sta bili pri nas populaciji volka in medveda že na robu izumrtja, ris pa je bil celo iztrebljen. Zdaj ris ponovno poseljuje slovenske gozdove, populaciji medveda in volka pa se v zadnjem desetletju (pre)hitro krepita in že dolgo nista bili v tako ugodnem stanju. Medveda in volka danes pri nas še najbolj ogroža razhajanje mnenj v družbi % na eni strani zagovorniki popolne zaščite vsakega osebka, na drugi pa zagovorniki (vsaj lokalnega) iztrebljenja zveri. To zelo ovira strokovno upravljanje populacij, k nastanku takšnega stanja pa je zagotovo svoj delež prispevala zastarela evropska naravovarstvena zakonodaja. Zato bi moral biti glavni izziv upravljavcev posodobitev evropske zakonodaje, s pomočjo katere bi bilo mogoče pri ljudeh, ki živijo na območju prisotnosti velikih zveri, ohraniti določeno raven strpnosti do zveri ter uravnavati številčnost velikih zveri v mejah, ki še omogočajo ugodno stanje populacij, obenem pa so sprejemljive tudi za ljudi, ki z velikimi zvermi sobivajo.
Ključne besede: rjavi medved, volk, upravljanje, populacija, Zavod za gozdove Slovenije, javna gozdarska služba, velike zveri, konflikti, odstrel, Direktiva o habitatih
Objavljeno v DiRROS: 16.11.2019; Ogledov: 5062; Prenosov: 1365
Celotno besedilo (157,12 KB)