Ibirian Links saved from destruction now faces uncertain future in Spain

In an eye blink, the virgin is triggered from a box and jumps the mountain to freedom. Its vaguely indicated ears and splash its brown fur Ibirian Links This is a dazzling show.

Woman, one year old, was released on a thousand five hundred on Monday Extremadura’s remote farmAt the western tip of Spain. This is his first contact with nature after being captured as part of a reproductive program to restore his race. The project, which began 20 years ago, ends next year. So Lynx, such as Virkula, calculates loose days.

Storing dangerous creatures

At the beginning of the century, the Iberian Links was on the verge of extinction in the iBeria, which was destroyed Kasa Destroyed their favorite foods and diseases: rabbit. With fewer than 100 life samples, ‘Lin’s Bartinus’ was about to share Todo’s goal.

So it started Life Links ConnectionThe wild cat has saved millions of euros with the support of the European Union, Spanish and Portuguese governments, regional officials and private companies. Since 2005, Linles has been captured and released in nature Southern Spain and Portugal.

Initially considered a plague, the rural communities and hunters convinced the Links as a property to the field. According to the 2023 census, the number of lines reached 2,021 models. Must be classified as In the risk of extinctionNow this is vulnerable, according to the International Union (IUCN) for the safety of nature of 2024.

The uncertainty of the uncertaint

With the Life Linx Connect Scheme, it ends in 2026, this photosynthesis faces the uncertain future. This wild cat has found resistance of Carnivore Some parts of Catalonia, Aragon and Castilla Y Leone in northern Spain. The farmers of Jamora, the popular region of Lofos’s population, have not seen with a good hunter, despite the fact that Lynx will never kill cattle.

In Arak, in East Spain, Conservative Famous Party manages with extreme right party VoxIt resists the arrival of Lynx. In Catalonia, farmers proved with their tractors in February and forced the Katalan Regional Government to abandon their plans to restore Links. Despite the plague of rabbits that swallow crops in agricultural areas like Lebida, farmers believe that Links will make things worse, although the rabbit cat’s favorite dinner.

Mar Ariza, a 27 -year -old farmer from Restalta Page, is a pointer Study The Nature Conservation for 2024 was published in the Nature Conservation magazine, accordingly, in some parts of Links increases the population of rabbits. According to the report, Lynx works “Natural Rangers”Weak or youth rabbits in advance, but without reducing the total population of rabbits. According to the same study, the lynx reduces the number of red foxes, carduvasas and other predators.

In spite of the opposition Resettlement Dell Felino, Maria Jessas Balasios, runs Lin’s security plans in Extramudura, Believes that the future of the cat is preserved. “We were able to show the hunters that Lynx helps them, because it helps regulate a supermader and any other competitor to eliminate any other competitor,” he explains. “They did not believe us when we started this project, but they could see with their eyes that it was a fact.”

Balasios believed it Among farmers From some parts of Spain, regional authorities will ensure that security plans will be supported in the future.

Belippe Garcia Extremura is working on Lynx for regional authorities, but he enjoys his hunt on weekends. Show your photos of deer and rabbits hunting. “I think it is good to see hunters now that the Links field is good This is not a plague. It ends with foxes and other competitors who use rabbits, “he says.

Before hunting for money, now Links live on exclusive farms

At the beginning of the 20th century, Spanish hunters can win Almost 4 pessetas (Approximately enough to buy 16 kg of bread) For every lynx they killedBecause the animal was officially considered a plague. Lynx now lives on some of the most unique farms in rural Spain, which are exploited for hunting. The cat is well received by its wells because it kills competitive predators Foxes.

The 8,000 hectares of farm in Valencia de Los Dorus, South Extramudura, has about 60 Lynx, one of the largest communities in Spain. The property of Sheikh Mansour, the owner of this farm Manchester City Football Club Lynx is a paradise because it is full of rabbits.

La Enkominda Farm -One hour by five hundred car We believe in the top of a mountain in search of Links. Suddenly, the radio of the rural agent sounds: ‘BIP, BIP, BIP!’ Like a lot of monitored animals, a lynx that carried electronic necklace was close. The quiet, three -year -old girl suddenly appeared in front of us, like almost a big house cat, and then ran away.

What future is waiting for the iPerian Lyns?

Steve Grangnell, editor of ‘incredibly reorganization of piranis’ (impossible re -refining of wildlife) in the re -introduction, in spite of the resistance to restoring Lynx, the animal The regional boundaries will cross itself.

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“It was a huge success. He faced destruction. Now 2,000 copies have reached the population. And the attitude towards Lynx has changed,” he added. The guards believe that attitude is not only Lynx but also towards Domestic animalsIn the recent decades, Spain has changed seriously.

It is said Felix Rodriguez de La FunThe dead natural enthusiast, often referred to as “David Attenborough Spanish”, which is the beginning of changing this mood in a popular nation – or unpopular – Bulls.