The Regional Ministry for the Environment, Universities, Research and the Mar Menor held a technical conference on the Iberian Lynx Recovery Plan on Tuesday 24 September.

The Regional Minister, Juan María Vázquez, announced at the opening that the preliminary consultation on the draft decree for the development of the plan, which will be available on the Transparency Portal until the 27th, ‘is receiving very constructive opinions and suggestions from the actors and organisations affected by it’.

The need for coordination between the different regional plans for the recovery of the Lynx pardinas, once the populations have stabilised and the transfer of specimens between them has begun, is confirmed by the presence of representatives from Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha, both LIFE LynxConnect partners.

The presentations, coordinated by the regional secretary for Energy, Sustainability and Climate Action, María Cruz Ferreira, began with the coordinator in Andalusia, Francisco Javier Salcedo, also coordinator of the European LIFE LynxConnect project, and were completed with an analysis of genetic management for the recovery of the species, by José Godoy, from the Doñana Biological Station, a centre dependent on the CSIC which coordinates the national programme in this field, and with the actions in Castilla-La Mancha for the reintroduction of the species, by Juan Francisco Sánchez.

The day concluded with a presentation on the regional plan for the reintroduction of the Iberian lynx in the Region of Murcia, given by Manuel Cremades, a technician from the Regional Ministry for the Environment, Universities, Research and the Mar Menor.