He Main objective of Life LynxConnect is to connect all existing Lynx centers Currently, with the aim of achieving metapoblaratie integration with which the electricity of genes can guarantee between all populations of line Iberian. Various actions are launched for this, with special incidence in the genetic treatment of the species to guarantee such a current.
Together with this goal, it is in turn intended to achieve other specific objectives, such as Reduce the risk of extinction, fight the threats that influence this, Improve your population status, implant retention and improvement of habitat improvement through aids for custody of the territory and social participation, and revise the Iberian strategy for nature conservation of this emblematic cat.
The Lynx in Murcia Lands
The President of the Community, Fernando López Miras, together with the third Vice President and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, released today Two new Iberian Lynx in the reintroduction area of this species in the Murcia region, Lorca’s Highlands.
These are two females called vilna and truth, 9 and 6 kilograms respectively, which come from the El Acebuche Breeding Center (Huelva), and with which the release period of this year was completed, which has been five Linces Iberian. So these two copies They contribute to three others who have recently been released: Vulcana, viking and wind.
López Miras emphasized that “it is already the third consecutive year in which we released it within the project LynxConnect, who today made Spain with around 2,000 Lynx. We continue to work from the Murcia region and help the protection of these animals and our ecosystems.
Moreover, the head of the regional director emphasized that “there is no better place than the Murcia region for the reintroduction of the line Iberian, because we are the country of Linces For many years. In that sense, he gave the fact that the skeleton of Found more complete and old Iberian lynx in the worldwho lived in the region about 1.1 million years ago.
The Murcia region has a population of Linces Increasingly anchored and consolidated in the field of reintroduction of the Highlands of Lorca. In the next national census of Linces Ibericos, the Murcia region will contribute a population of 20 copiesSo that’s the figure of Linces Iberians currently registered.
Likewise, the president emphasized the great success of the LynxConnect project, the initiative that reintroducing the line Iberian in the region. In this way, the line Iberian has left inside The danger of extinction to be in a vulnerable situation, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Five Lynx have been released this year
This year they have been released in the field of reintroduction of the highlands of Lorca Five new copies of the Iberian LynxEspecially four women and a man. The animals come from the breeding centers in El Acebuche (Huelva), La Olivilla (Jaén) and Silves (Portugal).
In addition to despicable and truth, that come from the Huelva part of the Doñana National ParkVulcana and Viking, both of 9 kilos,
In the case of wind it is about it An Iberian Lynx born in the middle of nature In March last year, in the Montiel de Castilla-La Mancha Field, and was saved after he was a point. After a period in the Silves Reproduction and Breeding Center, in the Portuguese Alentejo, he has now been released in the Murcia region.