After the performance of Life Iberlince “Recovery of the historical distribution of the Iberian Lince in Spain and Portugal” The project arrived Life Lynxconnect To continue to work and to develop actions that help improve the population and the preservation of the Iberian Lince (Lynx Pardinus) In Extremadura.
The project Life LynxConnect “Creation of an Iberian Lince metaplation (Lynx Pardinus)) Genetics and Demographic Functional (2020-2025) “ It is the fourth life project approved by the European Commission for the preservation of the line Iberian.
Life Lynxconnect The most important challenge is to take care of that Population of Iberian Lince is self -support and genetically viable in the long term. What is intended to be achieved by connecting the six existing population cores and the establishment of two new cores. All this will help to reduce the risk of extinction of this species.
The Lynx in Extremadura and those who made it possible
Extremadura 254 copies of Iberian Lynx identified and controlledOf which 60 are reproductive women, a remarkable growth of the population experienced on the Iberian peninsula, which today gone from 94 copies in 2002 to 2,400.
This is possible thanks to the LynxConnect project, the fourth life project approved by the European Commission for the preservation of the line Iberian, as indicated by the Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Manuel Martín Castizo, in the Delivery of awards to the preservation of the Iberian Lince. All winners have received a statue that was explicitly created by the Extremadura image host José Luis Fanado.
So, Juan Jiménez García, the owner of the First Farm agreed with this project in the Murcia regionThose actions have promoted to strengthen the population of Wild Rabbit, and an honorary price for Joâo Alves, a biologist who has worked on various reintroduction and conservation projects of the species.
The Ferriez Ferrez Vigile family who has the El Aprisco farm, in Castilla-La Mancha, has also recognized in Castilla-La Mancha, In the presence area of the Iberian Lynxand Alfredo SOSA, from Andalusia, for the collaboration and dedication to the preservation of the The line.
As far as Portugal is concerned, the municipal Câmara of Mértola has been awarded for his contribution to the Preserving this feline, because it was the Portuguese territory where the reintroduction began.
Among the winners of Extremadura is the Association for the Development of the Campo Esperañuelo (Arjabor) whose collaboration ‘has been fundamental for the Communication and distribution of the increase in Lince populations in the area‘And for his work in the explanation of the territory of the tourist product area line ‘.
Seprona has also been rewarded for the «Intense work of cooperation and supervision of his agents in the distribution pair of the Lince In Extremadura ».
More than half of the specimens that live in Extremadura are located in the Matachel River Valley, but there are also populations in the core of the Ortiga, in the Valdecigüeñas area; In Sorillo, Valdecañas and Ibores; And in the National Park (PN) of Monfragüe. Precisely into Monfragüe continues to inhabit a single male copy that was released in 2019.
All over the peninsula, 2,400 localized copies live in 22 population centersIn areas of Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalucía, Murcia and Portugal, as well as the new reintroduction in Castilla y León in the Palencia Mountain. Within the project, the Extremadura region has invested 300,000 euros in actions to prevent the indignation of these animals and accident prevention.
In particular, in 3 kilometers, in the vicinity of the EX-103 road, within the municipality of Valencia de las Torres, where where Actions taken aimed at checking animals access; Also to minimize the speed of vehicles. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM