We visited Triglav National Park’s Junior Rangers as part of our Young Ranger project activity

At the beginning of July, the Junior Rangers, a group of young children involved in the educational programme of the Triglav National Park, had an outdoor camp in the heart of Slovenian Julian alps, at the mountain hut in Uskovnica.

We have already collaborated with the Triglav National Park on the LIFE WolfAlps EU project as part of the Young Ranger programme, which produced an educational booklet about wolves and the forest ecosystem, which brings children closer to nature conservation in a fun and entertaining way.

At the camp, we visited the Junior Rangers and explored with them the large carnivores that live in our forests. With the help of the educational backpack: ”Wolf in a backpack” and material on wolves, bears and lynx, we discussed how to identify their presence in the forest, and then started… exploring.

Photo: Mojca Pintar, Triglav National Park

Unfortunately, we did not find signs of large carnivores’ presence, but we did learn something new and at the end we had fun with a ”lynx” and ”wolf” game.