Michal Bojda

European wildcat (Felis silvestris) has been a missing species in the Czech Republic and Western Slovakia since the 1960s.Development of camera trapping techniques in wildlife research has resulted since 2012 in the new records of European wildcat in the West Carpathians in the Czech-Slovak borderland. Here we present the data collected during the...

Even though populations of many large carnivores are expanding throughout Europe, the Eurasian lynx population in the Western Carpathians seems unable to spread beyond the western boundaries of its current distributional range. Many factors, both extrinsic and intrinsic, can influence the potential for range expansion: landscape fragmentation, nata...

The recovery of populations of grey wolf (Canis lupus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Central Europe offers an exceptional opportunity for studying people’s perception of large carnivores in changing conditions. In our study, we focused on attitudes of local people and visitors towards large carnivores in the West Carpathians. We showed that: (1)...

In the last decades, large carnivores – the grey wolf (Canis lupus), Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) and brown bear (Ursus arctos), and to a certain extent also the wildcat (Felis silvestris) – have increased their distribution ranges throughout Europe. Monitoring of their current distribution and population trends in the Czech Republic is crucial for th...

Grey wolf (Canis lupus) has recovered its population in Kysce and Orava region in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia, in 1 980’s, but the species has not been locally studied in detail, although it is a subject of legal hunting in the region. Field mapping of tracks and scat, howling records, extensive camera trapping and genetic monitoring was used...

This study discusses the limits of Marx's reinterpretation of Hegel's conception of dialectics as a self-mediation of the fundamental by way of historical reality: we will show Marx's disessentialisation of the (already quite monistic) Hegelian absolute spirit, and the consequences of Marx's conception of consciousness as of a conscious being for t...

The book summarizes the current knowledge about Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), grey wolf (Canis lupus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) – three species of large carnivores occurring in the Czech Republic and together only in the Carpathian part of Moravian and Silesian regions. Lynx and wolves started to colonize also other areas in the Czech Republic, su...

Occurrence of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx, Linnaeus 1758) was studied in the broader area of the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area (PLA) in the West Carpathians. The monitoring of the species was based on detection of indirect signs of presence (tracks, scat, remains of prey) found during the monitoring events conducted by trained volunteers of Friends...

The wildcat (Felis silvestris) population in the territory of the current Czech Republic decreased already during the second half of the 18th century and the occurrence of this species was very scarce in the 20th century. No reliable evidence of its occurrence was available since the last shot of an individual in 1952, although several non-confirme...