On August 16th, at 18h00 in the Tavern of the CASA DO ALENTEJO in Lisbon. And in the framework of the exhibition “The Lynx in the Peninsula – Connecting Territories and Consolidating Populations”. You can enjoy with Jorge Serafim the stories of our protagonist: the Iberian Lynx. If you have something to tell us, or
The exhibition ‘The Lynx in the Peninsula – Connecting Territories and Consolidating Populations’, promoted by CIMBAL – Comunidade Intermunicipal do Baixo do Alentejo, within the scope of the LIFE LYNXCONNECT project, was inaugurated last Thursday 25th July at 19:00 hours at CASA DO ALENTEJO, in Lisbon. The event was attended by the Minister of Environment
The dispersal of young lynx, mostly males, before stabilising territories with adequate food and conspecifics is a common phenomenon, and other cases of long-distance movements between the two countries have been confirmed, notably of the Caribou lynx in 2010, Mushroom in 2013, Kahn and Kentaro in 2015 and Lithium in 2016. The information obtained from
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
LIFE LYNXCONNECT presents in the Spanish Senate, the result of 22 years of work and LIFE Projects, which have placed the Iberian Lynx as “vulnerable” on the IUCN Red List. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, created in 1964, is the most comprehensive inventory of the conservation status of animal and plant species worldwide
The territory of Castilla y León was home to Iberian lynx populations until the last century, mainly in the south of the region. Various threat factors, such as unnatural mortality and the decline of wild rabbit populations, led to the disappearance of the last Iberian lynx populations in the north of the Central System. The