{"id":21776,"date":"2024-08-22T08:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fvo.si\/?p=21776"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:55:52","slug":"installing-the-phototraps-in-sinji-vrh-hunting-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fvo.si\/en\/installing-the-phototraps-in-sinji-vrh-hunting-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing camera traps in the Sinji Vrh hunting ground\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August 2024, colleagues from the Faculty of Environmental Protection, with the exceptional help of local hunters, who once again proved to be very important citizen scientists, deployed camera traps (sensor-triggered cameras) at 18 locations in the Sinji Vrh hunting ground (Ko\u010devsko-Belokranjsko hunting management district; LUO). The cameras were installed within a framework of the international consortium\u00a0ENETWILD-2<\/a>, namely European Observatory of Wildlife (EOW<\/a>) project activities, which main objective is standardised Europe-wide monitoring and estimation of population densities of large mammal species, with a focus on wild boar. Due to this, we installed cameras in an idyllic Slovenia-Croatia border hunting ground above the Kolpa River, which has been classified by the Slovenian National Centre for Disease Control as a high-risk area due to the presence of African swine fever (ASF) in Croatia since summer 2023.<\/p>\n

With this deployment of the cameras, we have included the sixth study site (in addition to the hunting grounds Ri\u017eana, Vrhe Vrab\u010de, \u017dabnik Obrov and Strunjan from the Primorsko LUO, and Oljka \u0160martno ob Paki from the Savinjsko-Kozjansko LUO) in the Slovenian part of the EOW, which we are implementing together with\u00a0UP FAMNIT<\/a>. The monitoring and the findings obtained from the camera traps will also significantly contribute to the realisation of the objectives of three other research projects carried out at the FVO: (i) the targeted research project (CRP)\u00a0\u201cWild Boar <\/em>Rooting<\/em>: Causes, Consequences, and Options for Reducing Damage and Conflicts\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(V4-2223); (ii) the trilateral (Croatia-Slovenia-Switzerland) research project\u00a0\u201cWild Boar Response to Hunting Pressure: Impact on Space Use, Stress, and Meat Quality\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(N4-0350); (iii) the international project\u00a0BIG_PICTURE<\/a>, which started in 2024 as part of the\u00a0Biodiversa+<\/a>\u00a0European Biodiversity Partnership.<\/p>\n