It has been rescued from extinction, and the Ibiri lyfa is now facing an uncertain future in Spain
propagandaIn the blink of an eye, Virgula is turned on a box and jumps to freedom. With her pointed ears, which are unambiguous and brown. Iberian lymph It is a great offer.
The female, one year -old, was released on Monday in the thousands of thousands, A remote farm from ExtreaduraOn the western end of Spain. He is his first communication with nature after his birth in captivity as part of a education program to restore his gender. This program, which started 20 years ago, ends next year. So loose from lynxs like Virgula has been calculated days.
Save endangered species
At the beginning of the century, the Ibiri lynn was about to extinction in Iberia, which removes it Casa Not applicable and diseases that destroyed their favorite food: rabbit. With less than 100 live samples, “Lince Pardinus” was about to share the Dodo destination.
So I started Life Lynx ConnectA project for several million euros with the support of the European Union, Spanish and Portuguese governments, regional authorities and private companies, which saved these wild cats. Since 2005, Lynles was raised in captivity and they are fired in nature in the crowded areas of rabbits Southern Spain and Portugal.
Initially, they consider the plague, conservatives persuaded rural societies and fishermen that the lymphus was in fact an advantage of this field. According to the 2023 census, the number of LINS reached 2021 samples. To be classified as it At the risk of extinctionIt is now weak, according to the update of the International Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for the year 2024.
The future future
With the Life Lynx Connect project, it ends in 2026, these light cats face an uncertain future. This moment, wild cats have been resistant In Catalonia, Aragon and parts of Castilla Y León, in northern Spain. Zamura farmers, the area famous for Lubus residents, does not look with a good predator, despite the fact that the lynn never kills livestock.
In Aragon, in eastern Spain, the conservative Popular Party rules with the extremist right -wing party FoxHe opposes the return of the lymphus. In Catalonia, farmers demonstrated with their tractors in February and forced the Catalan regional government to abandon their plans to restore the ice. Despite the plague of rabbits that devoured crops in agricultural areas such as Lyda, farmers believe that the lynn will get worse, although the rabbit is the favorite dinner of the cat.
Mar Ariza, 27 -year -old farmer of Restela Pagesa, points out, notes. Ticket It was published in 2024 in the magazine “Nature Conservation”, according to which Lynx increases rabbits in some areas. According to the report, the lympter works as “Natural Rangers”The rabbits have already preceded the weakest or youth, but without reducing the total population of rabbits. According to the same study, Lynx reduces the inhabitants of red foxes, Garduñas and other predators.
Despite the opposition resettlement Del Willino, Maria Jessu Palacius, who directs the conservative programs in Lince in Extreadura, It is believed that the cat’s future is guaranteed. “We were able to show the fishermen that the lymphus helps them because it is urgent and helps to organize the field eliminates any other competitor,” he explained to “Euronews Green”. “When we started this project, they did not believe us. But they managed to see with their own eyes that it was a reality.”
Palacius was convinced of that The opposition between farmers From some areas of Spain, it will decrease and confirm that regional authorities will support future memorization projects.
Felipe Garcia is working in Extreadura regional authorities to protect Lynx, but on weekends he enjoys hunting. Show your photos about deer and rabbits. “I think it is good for fishermen now that the lymphus can be good in this field and It is not plague. It ends with other foxes and competitors who benefit from rabbits. “
Before searching for money, the lymph now lives on exclusive farms
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Spanish fishermen can win Nearly 4 pesetas (Almost enough to buy 16 kg of bread) For all the icon they were killedBecause the animal was officially considered the plague. Lynx now lives on some of the most distinguished farms in the Spanish countryside that are used to hunt. Cats are well received by the well hosts because they kill competing predators Foxes.
It has a farm of 8,000 hectares in Valencia de Las Torres, in southern Yazidora, about 60 Linux, one of the largest societies in Spain. The farm is the King of Sheikh Mansour, the owner of Manchester City Football Club, and Paradise for the savage, because it is full of rabbits.
At La Encomieda Farm -an hour with a vehicle of a thousand five hundred – We hope at the top of a hill in search of the lynz. Suddenly, the rural agent radio looks: “BIP, BIP, BIP!” Lynx, who carried an electronic necklace like many of the animals that followed, was close. Quiet, a three -year -old female suddenly appeared in front of us, like a wonderful home cat, then escaped.
What is the future awaiting Lince?
Steve Krakinil, an expert in the re -introduction and author of the book “Unreasonable Removation of the Libyans” (the re -introduction of unlikely wildlife in the Prusse Mountains), confirms that despite the resistance to the restoration of Lynx, animal, animal The regional borders will cross itself.
propaganda“It was a great success. He has faced extinction and has now reached a population of 2000 copies. The position towards the lympho has changed,” he added. Preachers believe to maintain this position not only towards the lymphus, but also towards Pets,, Radically changed in Spain in recent decades.
Attribute Felix Rodriguez de la FuenteThe deceased nature world, which is often referred to as “David Attenburo,” the beginning of this change in the famous nation – or notorious – by Bulls.
