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The Iberian lynx lives in Portugal and Spain, and is the world's most endangered cat, follow this successful conservation story with this blog.

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    Tag: reintroductions

    2,401!

    I am celebrating the amazing news that Iberian lynxes in the wild now number 2,401. I love the precision; it shows just how much every single lynx…… Read more “2,401!”

    June 1, 2025 by Siobhan Mitchell

    No lynx will be released in Portugal this year

    Portuguese lynx population expanding so fast it doesn’t need artificial rentroductions

    April 9, 2023April 9, 2023 by Siobhan Mitchell

    2020 was a baby boomer year

    Portugal’s Alentejo is one of the most successful reintroduction sites for the Iberian lynx in the Iberian peninsular

    July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 by Siobhan Mitchell

    Evacuated lynxes return to the Algarve

    Last summer’s terrifying fires that forced the evacuation of Portugal’s only breeding centre for the endangered Iberian lynxes have long since died out, but it is only…… Read more “Evacuated lynxes return to the Algarve”

    December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 by Siobhan Mitchell

    Stop! In the name of Lynx

    Stop! In the name of Lynx – road accidents are the greatest threat to endangered lynxes now recovering

    July 14, 2018July 12, 2018 by Siobhan Mitchell

    Third time lucky?

    Some great news for lynxes this week, starting with our travelling lynx from last week. Litio has been successfully recovered and returned to Portugal’s Vale do Guadiana…… Read more “Third time lucky?”

    June 23, 2018 by Siobhan Mitchell

    Three years of the lives, loves and cubs of the Portuguese lynx

    In the remote south eastern edge of the Alentejo region of Portugal, the return of an apex predator – the Iberian lynx – is anxiously watched over…… Read more “Three years of the lives, loves and cubs of the Portuguese lynx”

    April 3, 2018July 2, 2018 by Siobhan Mitchell

    In the beginning..

    It was here that I saw my first Iberian lynx – Aura and Saliega, a few weeks old, fluffy, with spock-like ear tufts, baby blue eyes and a fierce wild hiss that left you with no mistaking that these were indeed wild cats

    March 1, 2018March 8, 2018 by Siobhan Mitchell

    The Cat that Came Back

    In 2000 I ran a media campaign to raise awareness of the almost extinct Iberian lynx. back then Europeans were more likely to have heard of faraway endangered tigers than our own endemic cat species.

    The Iberian lynx is now flourishing and reclaiming its historical habitat in Spain and Portugal, facing new threats of fast highways and mega dams that were built in its absence.

    Following in the footprints of the Iberian lynx

    Following in the footprints of the Iberian lynx

    2003

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