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The Iberian Lynx CNRLI reproduction centre near Silves, Portugal Queen Sofía of Spain and María Dolores de Cospedal release an Iberian lynx at "El Castañar", the finca of the Duke of Pastrana in Mazarambroz, Spain. In 2002, the Jerez Zoo confirmed it had three females and was developing a plan for a captive breeding program.
The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a vulnerable species native to the Iberian Peninsula in Southern Europe. It was the most endangered cat species in the world, [21] but conservation efforts have changed its status from critical to endangered to vulnerable.
The Iberian lynx population in Portugal and Spain rose above 1,000 last year after 414 cubs were born under a joint breeding programme, in a major leap towards conserving the endangered species ...
After decades of conservation work, the Iberian lynx has made a remarkable recovery. A new initiative is using a high-tech system to protect the wild cat from one of its deadliest enemies: road ...
Saliega was an Iberian lynx who in 2005 became the first of her species to give birth in captivity.. Saliega was born in the wild in March 2002 in Sierra Morena (Spain). [1] As a one-month-old with little chance of survival in the wild, she was taken by the Andalusian authority and arrived at the Jerez zoo on 17 April 2002. [2]
The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx. It is widely distributed from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe to Central Asia and Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. It inhabits temperate and boreal forests up to an elevation of 5,500 m (18,000 ft).
Felicola isidoroi, the Iberian lynx louse, is an extinct species of trichodectid chewing louse. Extinction. It is known only from a single specimen, a male. [2]
[4] [5] The cause for the founding of LCIE was the critical situation of the Iberian lynx, [5] whose population had dwindled to less than 100 adult individuals and was considered to be close to extinction. [6]