Cat News, the bi-annual newsletter of the IUCN Species Survival Commission’s Cat Specialist Group, has just published a special issue on the recovery of the Iberian Lynx in Spain and Portugal.

This publication has coincided with an expected change in the threat category of the Iberian Lynx on the Red List (https://www.iucn.org/press-release/202406/iberian-lynx-rebounding-thanks-conservation-action-iucn-red-list) from “endangered” to “vulnerable” and the presentation of the LIFE LYNXCONNECT Project in the Spanish Senate, to celebrate “20 years of LIFE Projects”.

Cat News summarises in almost forty pages and nine chapters the history and efforts of many, to rescue and save one of Europe’s most iconic species from extinction.

A first chapter on the historical distribution of the species, the different LIFE Projects and the work and actions carried out, genetic issues, the ex situ conservation programme and some other news, tell us how the recovery of what was the most endangered feline on the planet has been carried out.

From this website we congratulate all those who in some way have been the protagonists of this achievement: administrations, technicians, scientists, farm owners, hunters, private companies, NGOs, journalists and disseminators and a very long etc. of people who have shown their support day after day.

We finish as we always do when we give good news:

Thank you all.

You can read the Cat News special on this link:

http://www.catsg.org/index.php?id=815&L=0%3Fid%3D192%3Fid%3D49%3Fid%3D31%3Fid%3D%27