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Things are looking up for the Iberian lynx. Just over two decades ago, the pointy-eared wild cat was on the brink of extinction, but as of Thursday the International Union for Conservation of ...

Very few people have ever seen an Iberian lynx in the wild. Along with being extremely rare, it is also one of the most elusive species in the world. And lives in some of the wildest and most remote ...

It's a rare case of a species being saved from near-extinction. Twenty years ago, the Iberian lynx was the most threatened feline in the world due to poaching and the animals' natural habitat ...

At the turn of the 20th Century, more than a hundred thousand Iberian lynx roamed the cork ... with the aim of releasing captive-bred lynx back into the wild to bolster the wild population.

Related ‘Greatest recovery of a cat species ever achieved’: Iberian Lynx is no longer on brink of extinction ... forced the Catalan regional government to drop plans to bring back the lynx. Despite a ...

Its golden eyes have shone across Mediterranean lands for a million years. But the 25-pound Iberian lynx, icon of Spain and Portugal, is on shaky turf. Its wild count is about 225 animals ...

After months of waiting, Sergio’s carefully set camera trap finally gave him the picture he wanted: a young Iberian lynx perfectly framed in the doorway of an abandoned hayloft on a farm in Spain.

They will be judged on their quality, style and originality. Andrés Luis Dominguez Blanco (Spain) shows an Iberian lynx surveying the valley from a rosemary-covered hillside. Spain’s Sierra de Andújar ...

Related ‘Greatest recovery of a cat species ever achieved’: Iberian Lynx is no longer ... regional government to drop plans to bring back the lynx. Despite a plague of rabbits devouring ...

the lynx was thrown a lifeline in 2002 when the European Union (EU) stepped in to provide vital funds One of four living species, the Iberian lynx occupies a mosaic of wood and scrubland habitat ...