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
The Artemisan Foundation has held its last meeting in Andalusia,specifically in the hamlet of Los Noguerones, belonging to the town of Alcaudete (Jaén), on the LIFE LYNXCONNECT project. of Alcaudete (Jaén), on the LIFE LYNXCONNECT project.The talk was attended by a large audience interested in the behaviour of the Iberian lynx.the behaviour of the Iberian
The LIFELYNXCONNECT project was present at the 22nd edition of the Seville Science Fair organised by the Sociedad Andaluza para la Divulgación de la Ciencia (Andalusian Society for the Popularisation of Science) https://feriadelaciencia.org/01_FERIACIENCIA/ The team in charge of genetic monitoring of lynx populations showed the public the process carried out by our technicians and techniques