Friday November 6, 2009, 8:50 am


Here is the translation.....

The first reintroduction of lynx in Spain, expected before the end of this year in the counties of Guadalmellato (Córdoba) and Guarrizas (Jaén), will be with copies taken from the wild and other captive born.

The conservation program manager of this cat in Andalusia, Miguel Angel Simón, who has participated this afternoon in the first Iberian Congress of Wildlife Re-organized by Zoobotánico Jerez, has warned that this reintroduction will not be easy and that some of its details can not be confirmed yet because they depend on variables of nature.

He recalled that this reintroduction has no history as the most similar is the Canadian lynx in Colorado (USA) that could release hundreds of copies purchased in Canada, where this species is abundant, which is not true of the Iberian lynx, the feline more threatened the planet of which survive only about 200 copies.

Reintroductions in Guadalmellato and Guarrizas be in December before the start of the rut, and the lynx will be released in acclimation enclosures to be opened depending on whether pregnancies occur and the period of acclimation of copies.

The forecasts are released in pairs every area of adult and youth, the latter task to "instruct" a third of cubs born in captivity, although the final number will depend on how many can capture lynx in Sierra Morena.

Simon has said that in any case, territorial females captured, only individuals who have not yet colonized a farming area and reiterated that it is difficult to predict the behavior of reintroduced lynx because there is a history of copies released in Doñana for strengthen this population that have been set in this area while others are scattered over a hundred miles.

In his view, these reintroductions are made possible by the success of captive breeding and recovery of wild populations, which in Sierra Morena has doubled from 80 lynx in 2004 to over 160 this year and in Doñana where nearly extinct a few years ago after an outbreak of feline leukemia virus, has recovered and now exceed 60 copies, according to provisional data.

He has stressed that the zones and the method of reintroduction has been prepared "thoroughly" through analysis of twenty variables, including social support to the recovery of the lynx or Guadalmellato Guarrizas and is some 35 kilometers of existing population centers Sierra Morena lynxes distance runs without difficulty thereby encouraging the connection between the populations with the consequent increase in colonized territory of the genetic wealth.

The conservation director of the Durrell Foundation, an entity that has conducted more conservation reintroductions in the world, John E. Fa, has called the "maximum support" for these political and social re-introductions and highlighted the Efe news agency that Andalusia and Spain have "an incredible scientific capability" on the lynx.

"The lynx is an icon of the Mediterranean and Iberian fauna and we must do everything possible to survive, we must all be proud that this species remain in Spain and we can not afford to disappear," he emphasized.

Friday November 6, 2009, 11:32 am
Cher, I think highly of your commentary. It would help me if you gave a commentary after even news article.

Friday November 6, 2009, 1:46 pm
good new cher thank you

Friday November 6, 2009, 3:01 pm
Good news indeed...now keep them protected.

Big Gorilly Hgs

Friday November 6, 2009, 3:50 pm


Thnx Bee!

I don't always comment because sometimes I just don't know what to say! lol

Some articles speak for themselves!!

In this case I think it's great that they are trying to reintroduce the lynx, I just hope it works out and that they are safe like Gorilly said.

Too many times in this world man has wiped out an animal only to then turn around and reintroduce it again!

I wish they would just leave them alone in the first place!!!!!!!!

Saturday November 7, 2009, 12:00 am
thank you Cher. please let it work.please let them breed,raise there young and prosper,as was intended they should!

Saturday November 7, 2009, 12:19 am
Now to keep them protected.
Good news Cher xo

Saturday November 7, 2009, 11:54 am
I hope this is a great success. It's always inspiring to see people trying to do their bit to help animals in the wild.

****************There's only 40-50 Syberian lynx left in the wild in Spain. There's a petition to help them at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-the-ibrian-lynx