Lynx Iberian is spread on the Iberian Peninsula, but it has not yet been saved a report

OS Link They returned to Serra Mourina, in Castle Lasha, Spain in 2014. within ten years, Antonio, Viglanti, witnessed nature, “grandparents, mothers and girls” multiply in the mountains, where hundreds of these cats live today.

A community shares that Antonio cannot hide it from journalists on a guided tour by a community that covers scientists and technicians to preserve animals and local, national and European authorities, but also stone associations, farmers or entrepreneurs associated with tourism.

The Ibiri lynx recovery project, which has been reduced to less than 100 animals Extinction At the beginning of this century, it includes governments and private from Spain and Portugal. It started in 2002, funded by European programs, and was always in cooperation with the population. “Al -Sayyad’s associations, for example, took a major role in the” different, disabled taboos “process, as those officials put it. LynxconnectThe continuous life project for the period 2020-2025.

The example is on the ground that António is responsible for Lynxconnect They traveled this week with the journalists and that the residents of the lynn chose to install and reproduce: a fishing reserve and a natural reserve, in the center of Sira Mourina.

Lynx Kiowa, Kaplán and Kairós, born in captivity, were released in this region ten years ago, and females chose the first land of fishing reserve for stability, because they found the availability of the rabbit, the animal from which they feed.

One of the assets in Ecosystem

Lynx accurate, on average, rabbit a day to feed and chases only the animals it eats, unlike Fox and other “general” meat -eating predators. Lynx depends on the rabbit to survive, and habitats have proven with the availability of rabbits necessary for the good numbers of installation, reproduction and the growth of the inhabitants of Iber cats.

Miguel Angel Sanchez, responsible for the reserve, thanks to the presence of 28 steps wandering today in property: “They expel the fox, which is our greatest enemy.”

Miguel Angel Sanchez said: “The fox is able to kill 25 size ten meters away. They chew up and spit them without eating it.

A successful project

“The private sector component, the support we have always obtained from the special characteristics, was essential. The population often depends on the managers of rabbits, often, to be in the intermediate areas. It was a key sector from the beginning and we continue to work together.” Biological diversity From the regional government in Castela-LA Mancha, one of the partners Lynxconnect.

In 20 years of projects and 15 re -introducing captive animals born in the Iberian Peninsula, which was historically inhabited, the total number of Iberian Lenness moved from less than 100 to two thousand in 2023, and by 2024 Class The “Passing” risk classification is no longer the “Pass Videos” in the Red List prepared by the International Conservation Federation (UicN).

The process was initially underwent to multiply in captivity and then launch Lynx in nature. To reach a “favorable conservation state”, it will be necessary to reach between 4500 and six thousand individuals, with at least 1,100 genital females (406 in 2023) and the formation of new groups.

The only two small groups of Lyncoms that survived in the early century in Andalusia led to several groups of pieces in the Spanish regions of Andalusia, Castle Lasha and Morsia, and in southern Portugal, in the Guodiana Valley, where 291 animals were identified in 2023.

Types maintenance

In parallel, it is now necessary to “a complete genetic management of the group of species”, because “the ability of these new populations depends on sufficient genetic diversity and to avoid the accumulation of the close,” Genetic experts, Jose A. Godoy and Ruling Rodriguez, from the Duniana Biological Station (CSIC – Scientific Scientific). The text was also signed by Jose Jiminies, from the Research Institute on Senegian Resources in Spain.

Linking lynx groups to each other, “to be this genetic exchange”, is exactly one of the goals of the continuous program, and the biologist has highlighted Baku Sanchez.

He added: “The genetic diversity in the case of the reserved population is very good,” stressing that the project recovery project always depended on scientific work, which tried to save genetics from the types of two small groups of animals that resisted extinction, first with captive copies and now with the transmission of animals between the lands.

On Earth, this is translated into permanent monitoring that includes nature and guard technicians. They control the lynic movements on which a necklace was placed, collecting DNA samples (especially stool) and picking animals to undergo veterinary controls to assess the health status of the population or transfer a copy to another area after the quarantine for at least one month.

Paper quarantine, veterinary controls, or diseases and pests are recovered in places such as El Chaparrillo Wild Fauna Center, near Ciudad Real, in Castela-IT Mancha.

This center has passed 208 live lines since 2014, the year in which they started their release in the region. According to one of the center’s center, Rocío Gómez Sánchez was mostly “healthy animals for health monitoring and conducting”.

This week, they were at El Chaparrillo Quatro Lances, two in the quarantine that will be changed from the region and enhance the genetics of the new group in which it will be combined, and a female to recover from a wound and a residing room already, due to an unbearable injury. Those who arrived in the injured were often running on the roads.

“It is an impressive animal in all respects, especially when dealing with it, treating it, to its release,” said Rossio Gomez Perez.

Baku Sanchez said it was a kind that was on the brink of extinction, “Over these years, a lot of investigation was a lot and there were surprises” about what was known or thought about the lymphus.

Socially, “it is not alone as it seems” and “has a structure in which females often try to remain linked to the lands of mothers”, along with “the social relations between the samples that have appeared”, embodied with the biologist.

Scientists still discover, for example, at the nurse level, “especially in the population who have just settled” or relationships with other meat -eating animals.

“There is a lot of work to do,” says Baku Sanchez.