“Where is Latvia?” I bet many people would ask straight away. It’s a part of Europe, with Latvia being the middle of the Baltic States, between Estonia in the north and Lithuania in the south. It also borders Russia and Belarus. And it’s thanks to our eastern neighbours that there’s a strong wolf population in the Baltics in general, and Latvia in particular. Read article »
Following a one-day’s track is like a detective story uncoiling its secrets right in front of your eyes. Let’s take a one-day tracking of a wolf pack in Kemeri National Park, Latvia, as an example. We head out to the forest on a fine spring day when the sun melts the upper layers of snow forming an ice crust at night. We find a track of two wolves crossing a stream. A few blood drops on the snow next to the track indicate that one of them was a female wolf in heat as March is the breeding season for this species. Read article »
It’s no secret that Latvia has one of the biggest populations of European lynx (Lynx lynx) in Europe (counting several hundred individuals). However, until recently, this species has been poorly studied, and the first studies (started in mid-1990s) involved examination of harvested animals (sex and age, diet, parasites etc. - basically all kind of information one can obtain from a dead animal). Read article »
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