{"id":2948,"date":"2026-03-23T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rysie.org\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:20:10","slug":"release-of-the-ptasznik-skakun-and-tarantula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rysie.org\/en\/release-of-the-ptasznik-skakun-and-tarantula\/","title":{"rendered":"Release of the Ptasznik, Skakun and Tarantula"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are moments that only last few seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The door of the carrier opens, and the animal quickly disappears into the thicket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But behind this short moment there are years of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of hours of project preparation and office work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily care for the well-being, adequate nutrition and development of the young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, years of field monitoring, data analysis, replacement of telemetry collars \u2014 all to know that they are safe, understand their fate and learn how to protect them even more effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a huge effort of a team of people, passion and responsibility, which is not visible in photos or short recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pioneering project \u2014 on a national and perhaps European scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those moments for which it was worth going all this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the West Pomeranian Nature Society, we have been running a lynx reintroduction program for years. Thanks to this, over a hundred of these unusual predators have returned to nature. Today, another three are starting their own history in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of them, Skakun, is a young male who survived the winter \u2014 the only one found among the three orphaned kittens. A symbol of the fragility of wild nature and how much depends on the quick help of man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other two lynxes \u2014 a male – Ptasznik and a female Tarantula \u2014 were born in May last year in our pens. They grew up with their mothers, learning everything that is most important in a lynx’s life: caution and independence. Now the natural moment has come \u2014 the same one in which the young in the wild leave their mother and set off to find their own territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, three young lynxes have joined the wild population

Although the project initially focused on West Pomerania, we are looking more broadly. We want lynxes to become a permanent element of the landscape of the whole of northern Poland again. That is why these three young predators are starting an independent life in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s more than just letting animals out. It’s rebuilding broken ecosystem threads. Restoring balance. Giving nature back what belongs to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"\ud83d\udcf8\" Marta JaKa i Mi\u0142osz Kowalewski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The activities are carried out by the West Pomeranian Nature Society as part of the LIFE22-NAT-PL-LIFE LYNX PL LT DE Project „Expanding the range of lynx populations in northern Poland”.

 Funded by the EU. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author or authors only and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the European Union or the European Climate, Environment and Infrastructure Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor CINEA are responsible for them. Co-financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management and the WWF Poland Foundation.

 The project partners are: West Pomeranian Nature SocietyWWF Poland, Spychowo Forest District, State Forests
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