At the end of last year The ‘Iberian Lynx Working Group’ by Castilla-La Mancha approved a new reintroduction areaAfter the corresponding studies had been carried out after the protocols and it was verified that it was suitable for that.
That is why it is now went to the release of the first two copiesOne of them is a woman from a breeding center of captivity and the other is a man who was brought after a democation from Toledo.
Iberian Lince Recovery works in Cuenca
The government of Castilla-La Mancha has the first copies of line Iberian in the The province of Cuenca for reintroduction in the natural environment, “A historical milestone with which we set ourselves as a goal that the new reintroduction area line Iberian in our region, after the mountains of Toledo, Sierra Morena Oriental and Western and Campos de Hellín ”.
This is indicated by the Counselor for Sustainable Development, Mercedes Gómez, during the release of ‘Ventolera’, a woman of about a year born in the center of CCRía in captivity of the Line Iberian van Granadilla and ‘Urachlio’, A two -year -old man who is a wild copy of the population of Montes de Toledo.
These are the first two copies released from a total of seven that will be introduced again in this new area in the following dates. Regarding the chosen zone ‘La Vegeguilla and Sierra Jarameña’, of around 60,000 hectares, the counselor claimed that it was chosen ‘after two years of thorough studies and to verify it had done An adequate density of his Hoofddam, rabbitsIn addition to having sufficient plant coverage that could serve as a refuge, along with a low level of possible threats such as poisoning, feline diseases or abuse, the most important cause of death of the species.
In addition, as stressed, surveys were carried out with the locals and meetings with hunting forecasts and municipal representatives, so that an acceptance of more than 85 percent was obtained, so he thanked “the cooperation in the cooperation in the the cooperation in the Recovery projects of the types of private sectorsuch as hunting forecast and private farms, as well as municipalities, basic pillars for more than one decade before the return of the Iberian Lynx to Castilla-La Mancha“.
Guadalajara is the following
Toledo, Ciudad Real, Albacete “And from today Cuenca are already areas of reintroduction of the line On the Iberian peninsula, We only have Guadalajara where we are already conducting the first viability studies So that it can also have a re -introduction zone in the Sun -driven Zepa of the Sierra de Altomira, in the southern part of the province. “
With regard to the number of re -introduced samples, he remembered that with ‘Ventolera’ 127 Lynxes have already been released in Castilla-La Mancha since 2014The year that the releases of specimens of breeding centers of captivity started. In the case of ‘Urainlio’ it is a ‘transmitted’ copy, that is, a line Silvestre born in one of the consolidated populations of Toledo and Ciudad Real, “and that they will play a fundamental role in the reintroduction in the recently created areas.”
In that sense, Gomez has reported that a total of seven has been transported in Castilla-La Mancha Linces Iberians: three in the area of reintroduction of Campos de Hellín, two to the ‘stepping stone’ of the Jara, one to the ‘stepping stone’ of the Cabañeros National Park and one for Montes de Toledo. To this transmitted specimens must be added to Urachlio, released today in Cuenca, Al Icaro, which will soon be released in this province.
Castilla-La Mancha bets in translocation
Finally, the holder of Sustainable Development indicated that Castilla-La Mancha has 715 copies after the last official census with data from 2023, 35 percent of the total Iberian census. Figure that could be increased since the first provisional data from 2024 indicate a significant increase in the number of puppies in the latest nests compared to that of the previous year, with 402 copies born in freedom.
“This is what the follow-ups are indicated by the environmental agents, technicians from the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Acam, CBD-Habitat and WWF Foundation, with the collaboration of the farms of the farms, which, which, which, that, those , which, which, which They will culminate in the following dates with the last census of 2024 copies“He concluded.