Andalusia already has a total of 133 Iberian lynxes released throughout the region, and the medium-term objective is to consolidate the existing population in order to aspire to be able to advance in the cataloguing of the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable”, thus improving the prospects for its development and growth.

This has been highlighted by the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, who has participated in the release of a new specimen in Almodóvar del Río (Córdoba). It is a male, named ‘Tempul’, bred in the Zoobotanico de Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz).

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https://juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/portavoz/gobiernoaldia/179723/JuanmaMoreno/Andalucia/Gobiernoandaluz/lince/liberados/ProyectoLifeLynxConnect/medioambiente/especiesprotegidas/especiesvulnerables