At the meeting of experts and management board of project LIFE Kočevsko, which took place July 2nd 2015 in newly refurbished Eagle's room in Kočevska Reka, we reviewed the current status of project actions based…continue reading
In the second half of June we located an occupied nest hole of a three-toed woodpecker at Velika gora near Rakitnica and placed a camera trap in its vicinity. The camera trap enabled one week…continue reading
Article on white-backed woodpecker was published in Dolenjski list (available on http://life-kocevsko.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20150618_Kliping_DolenjskiList_LIFE.pdf). Author of the article is Mr Andrej Hudoklin from The Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation.continue reading
Within E5 project action and E.5.2 sub-action, we refurnished Eagle's room in newly renovated house of culture in Kočevska Reka. Nature preservation info room - EAGLE'S room is ready to start housing project activities. continue reading
The census of three-toed and white-backed woodpeckers was conducted at 400 points between March and May 2015. In Kočevje area census was mostly carried out by project partner ZGS. In the area of Novo Mesto…continue reading
The reason for the search was in gathering data on structure of nesting habitat of both woodpecker species, as well as gathering information on type and structure of their and their hatchlings diet. Representatives of…continue reading
Survey of predation of artificial ground nests One of the activities carried out by ZGS within action A2 (Inventory of the baseline status) was a survey of predation of artificial ground nests in vicinity of…continue reading
Representatives of SFS (Slovenia forest service) and IRSNC (The Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation) attended the workshop on Programme of management of Natura 2000 in Slovenia for forestry and hunting sectors.…continue reading
The Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation in cooperation with the Slovenia forest service and the DOPPS-Birdlife Slovenia organized training for hazel grouse, white-backed woodpecker and three-toed woodpecker census on 17.4.2015. Training,…continue reading
The first part of the census of two target woodpecker species started in the second half of March due to cold weather and high snow cover at higher altitudes. Census was conducted at 122 points…continue reading
