LYNXCONNECT releases the first lynx in the Murcia Region
March 4, 2023
The first three of the eight Iberian lynxes to be released in the Region are already in acclimatisation enclosures, prior to their definitive release into the wild.
The President of the Regional Government, Fernando López Miras, today took part in the release of three Iberian lynx specimens in the surroundings of the Pantano de Puentes reservoir, in the municipality of Lorca, as part of the Life Lynxconnect project. This initiative seeks to connect all the existing lynx population centres in our country, and the formation of new nuclei of this species listed as ‘Endangered’ in the Catalogue of Threatened Species of Wild Fauna in the Re