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Lynx Trust UK are a registered charity campaigning for the reintroduction of lynx to the Kielder Forest in Northumberland. [4] In 2018, a proposal to release six animals was turned down by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, [5] due to findings that the proposal did not "meet the necessary standards set out in the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) guidelines and fails ...
First Minister John Swinney has ruled out the legal reintroduction of lynx into the wild in Scotland. ... Some wildlife groups are keen to see lynx one day roam free under legal reintroductions.
We include the wolf, the lynx, the bear, the wolverine, the beaver, the elk, the boar, the walrus, the bison, the mouflon, the lemming and one non-mammal - the sturgeon." [1] The initial areas for reintroduction appeared to be in Northumberland forests, and the borders region of Scotland.
There have been calls for the reintroduction of the Eurasian lynx, brown bear and grey wolf to the UK, because no large predators are living in viable populations in Great Britain. It is theorized that a large predators presence could create a trophic cascade , [ 90 ] thus improving the ecosystem .
The Northern Lynx is a subspecies of the Eurasian Lynx. RZSS chief executive David Field said the charity condemned the release of the lynx "in the strongest possible terms".
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The Spanish National Commission for the Protection of Nature endorsed the Iberian Lynx Ex Situ Conservation Breeding Program to serve as a "safety net" by managing the captive population and also to "help establish new Iberian lynx free-ranging populations through reintroduction programmes."
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