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Two photographic traps in 70 locations should provide information on the lynx population in Switzerland. Most lynx was calculated at Tössstock between St.Gallen and Zurich.
(SDA): In 70 locations in northeastern Switzerland, two photographic traps were created last winter for 60 days. In about half there were bluish images. Overall, the population is growing. In the cantons of St. Gallen, Zurich, Appenzell Innerrhoden and Appenzell Ausserrhoden, shots of shady wildflowers were collected with photographic traps. The researchers then evaluated the images.
Due to typical fur patterns, they could identify 17 independent bows and 8 to 10 young people from 5 different births in the photos.
Kora, the Swiss Predator Ecology Competence Center and Wildlife Management, calculates a buckling density of 2.53 animals per 100 square kilometers of the data gathered. The value grew slightly again compared to the latest survey in the winter of 2014/15, according to the St. Petersburg office report. Gallen on Nature, Hunting and Fishing on Thursday.
Most of the lynxes were measured in the Tössstock area between the cantons of St. Gallen and Zurich. North of Thur in the Alpstein area, the stock remained unchanged compared to the last measurement. In the southern canton of St. Gallen between Speer, Churfirsten and Alvier, the number has decreased, however.
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