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NautilusFeature · 28 August 2025

In the Land of the Eyeless Dragons

Gary Hartley visits Tular and explores how the proposed ProteusWatch laboratory could reveal the health of groundwater ecosystems.

LifeWatch ERICPodcast · A window on science

The underground Karst caves of Postojna

A conversation with Tanja Pipan, Nataša Ravbar and Gregor Aljančič about the karst underground. LifeWatch ERIC, season 3, episode 10.

Earth Touch / bioGraphicPhoto story · 26 January 2021

Saving Slovenia’s ‘Human Fish’

Katie Jewett’s story, with photographs by Luka Dakskobler, follows the Aljančič family’s research and conservation work. Originally published by bioGraphic.

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117 entries

2018

Reševanje človeških ribic [Salvaging Proteus]

Marina Bilić, Naš časopis, XLIV/ 465, p. 7, 26. 11. 2018

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Človeška ribica: Oboji lahko dočakamo sto let in imamo podobne težave

Bogdan Macarol, Dnevnik, 18. 4. 2018

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Mednarodni posvet SOS Proteus

Nadia Petauer, Radio Slovenia 1, 13. 4. 2018.

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Človeška ribica in poplave

Gregor in Magdalena Aljančič, Klasje, marec 2018.

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2017

Ta veseli dan kulture tudi v Notranjskem muzeju Postojna [The celebration of Culture Day also at the Notranjska Museum from Postojna]. celebration

Ta veseli dan kulture tudi v Notranjskem muzeju Postojna [The celebration of Culture Day also at the Notranjska Museum from Postojna]. Petra Trček. Primorske novice, 6.12.2017.

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Trideset let od odkritja črne človeške ribice [Thirty years since the discovery of the black proteus]

Gregor Aljančič, TRDOŽIV, Letnik VI: 1 (1.9.2017)

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Varstvo proteusa pomeni varstvo nas [Protection of Proteus means protecting us]

Ambrož Sardoč. Primorske novice, 21.7.2017

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Predsednik Pahor je sodeloval pri reševanju človeške ribice v Beli jami pri Vipavi [President Pahor helped on a Proteus rescue mission in the Bela cave from Vipava]

Urad predsednika Republike Slovenije, 21.7.2017

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Človeška ribica se vrača domov na Vipavsko [ Proteus returns home, in Vipava]

Radio ROBIN, 21.7.2017

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Cave dragons exists - and saving them could be key to protecting drinking water [New DNA technique are letting researchers track down the largest, strangest cave animal in the world] [New DNA technique are letting researchers track down the largest, strangest cave animal in the world]

Cave dragons exists - and saving them could be key to protecting drinking water [New DNA technique are letting researchers track down the largest, strangest cave animal in the world]. Joshua Rapp Learn. Smithsonian Magazine, 22.6.2017

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Bitja, ki živijo več kot 100 let [Creatures who can live more than 100 years]

Slavko Jerič, Podcast Številke, RTV Slovenija, 3.2.2017

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2016

30 let od odkritja črnega močerila [30 years since the discovery of black Proteus]

Verica Marušič, Vaš Kanal, 12.12.2016

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Together: local solutions for nature conservation: lessons from the Mediterranean

Shaun Hurrell (ed.), BirdLife International

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2015

V kranjski temi čakajo na svetovno senzacijo

Špela Ankele, Slovenske novice, 21.12.2015.

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Odkrite n ove lokalitete črne človeške ribice [Discovery of new localities of the black Proteus ]

Ana Jagodic Dolžan, Radio Kranj, 23.12.2015.

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Je črna človeška ribica ogrožena?[Is the black Proteus endangered?]

Verica Marušič, Vaš kanal, Novo mesto, 9.12.2015.

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Ogroženost človeške ribice in pitne vode v Beli krajini [Threats to Proteus and drinking water in Bela Krajina]

Gregor in Magdalene Aljančič, Peter Trontelj in Andrej Hudoklin, Belokranjec, 11/XVIII: 7.

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Skromno populacijo črne človeške ribice lahko uniči že ena sama lokalna zastrupitev podtalnice [Even a single local pollution of the groundwater may destroy the black Proteus population]

Dragana Stanković, Dnevnik, 27.7.2015.

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Industry must act now to safeguard biodiversity threatened by limestone quarrying, NGOs say

Shaun Hurrell, BirdLife International

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Zmaji, ki v podzemlju varujejo naše okolje [Underground dragons guarding our environment]

Tomaž Bukovec, Nedeljski Dnevnik, 11. 2. 2015

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Scientific breakthrough reveals evidence of ‘human fish’ locked away in cave system

BirdLife International

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Človeška ribica tudi malo kranjska

Suzana Kovačič, Kranjčanka, XVIII/1, 30.1.2015: 12-13.

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Pogovor o ogroženosti človeške ribice in pitne vode [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water]. the the the

Pogovor o ogroženosti človeške ribice in pitne vode [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water]. Ana Jagodic Dolžan, Radio Kranj/ Pod drobnogledom, 23.1.2015.

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Pogovor o ogroženosti človeške ribice in pitne vode [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water]. [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water] the the the

Pogovor o ogroženosti človeške ribice in pitne vode [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water]. Radio Sora, Škofja Loka, 22.1.2015.

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Človeško ribico odkrili tudi v Črni gori [ Proteus discovered in Montenegro]

Miran Šubic, Dnevnik, 21.1.2015

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Pogovor o ogroženosti človeške ribice in pitne vode [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water]. [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water] [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water]

Pogovor o ogroženosti človeške ribice in pitne vode [On the vulnerability of Proteus and drinking water]. Radio Triglav, Jesenice, 21.1.2015

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2014

Sestavljanje mozaika o zmajevih mladičih

M. Prijatelj & J. Eržen, DELO, Ljubljana, 2. 12. 2014.

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Izgubljena človeška ribica spet doma [Lost olm back home]

J. Usenik et al., 24ur POP TV, Ljubljana, 10. 11. 2014.

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Rešili človeško ribico, ki se je znašla v poplavljeni kleti

T. H., RTV Slovenia, 9. 11. 2014

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Otkriven Edukativni pano o životu u podzemlju krša [Unveiling of an Information board on life in subterranean karst]

D. Musa, Večernji list/ Bosnia and Herzegovina edition, Zagreb, Croatia, 21. 8. 2014.

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Deset novih nalazišta čovječje ribice [Ten new localities of Proteus]. B. Medić, Radio Ljubuški, interview

; aired on 20. 8. 2014.

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Otvaranje informativnog panoa o čovječjoj ribici, Trebižatu i pitkoj vodi [Unveiling of the information board on Proteus, Trebižat River and drinking water]

D. Musa, Radio Čapljina, interview; aired on 20. 8. 2014.

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Uspešno reševanje človeške ribice [Successful salvaging of olm]

D. Jaksetič, DELO, Ljubljana, 17. 5. 2014.

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Srečen konec za človeško ribico [Happy end for olm]

L. Ferko, Primorske novice, Koper, 15. 5. 2014.

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O napretku CEPF projekta u BiH [On the progress of CEPF projects in BiH]

D. Musa, Radio Čapljina, interview; aired on 1. 4. 2014.

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2013

Slovenski istraživači na području Hercegovine tragaju za čovječjom ribicom [Slovene researchers survey for Proteus in Herzegovina]

D. Musa, Večernji list/ Bosnia and Herzegovina edition, Zagreb, Croatia, 14. 10. 2013.

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Ugrožena človječja ribica u Hercegovini [Endangered olm in Herzegovina]

D. Musa, Radio Čapljina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 10. 10. 2013.

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Reševanje človeških ribic [Salvaging olms]

T. Magdič, Svet na kanalu A, Ljubljana, 20. 5. 2013.

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2012

Razmnoževanje človeške ribice [Reproduction of olm]

M. Kranjc et al., 24 ur, POP TV, Ljubljana, 20. 12. 2012.

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Skrivnosti človeške ribice [Secrets of olm]

J. Novak et al., Slovenska kronika, SLO 1, RTV Slovenia, Ljubljana, 19. 12. 2012.

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V jami Tular eksperiment traja že 50 let [Experiment in Tular Cave lasting already for 50 years]

S. Rogelj Petrič, DELO, Znanost [Science], Ljubljana, 15. 11. 2012

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Grottenolme - lichtscheu und leichenblass

J. Radü et al., W wie Wissen, ARD television, Germany, 30. 10. 2012

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2011

Kranjski proteus svetovne veljave

T. Bukovec, Nedeljski dnevnik, Ljubljana, 27.11. 2011

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2010

Človeška ribica in skrb za okolje [Olm and care for environment]

G. Aljančič, DELO, Znanost [Science], Ljubljana, 23. 12. 2010

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Scientific breakthrough reveals evidence of “human fish” locked away in cave system

The original archive placed this undated link in its 2010 section; the publication date has not been verified.

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