2020 was the best year yet for wild born lynx cubs in Portugal, with a whopping 60 cub births recorded by the Portuguese authorities. This beats the previous years record of 46 cubs born in Portugal.

This incredible breeding success from the 18 female lynx who are now holding stable territories in the Alentejo makes the Portuguese reintroduction site one of the most successful in the whole Iberian peninsular.

Jacaranda was the first Iberian lynx reintroduced to Portugal, and she is mother to ‘Nossa’ the first wild born lynx cub in decades, raised a litter of four cubs in 2020 breaking her one cub per year pattern.

The first release of Iberian lynx in Portugal began in 2014, and has grown to a population of more than 150, with regular new reintroductions each year from captive breeding centres across Spain and Portugal, to give this species the greatest genetic variability possible. Iberian lynx in Portugal now occupy 500km2 a wonderful reclamation of thier historic range.