For the first time in hundreds of years a lynx was photographed on the Emilian Apennines. The news is Ispra. An adult specimen of the feline, which was believed to have been extinct in the Apennines since the 19th century, was immortalized on XNUMX April in the territory of a wildlife-hunting company, in the municipality of Santa Sofia, in the Forlì Apennines.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
For the first time in hundreds of years a lynx was photographed on the Apennines Emilian. The news is Ispra. An adult specimen of the feline, which was believed extinct since the XNUMXth century, was immortalized on 19 April in the territory of a wildlife-hunting company, in the municipality of Santa Sofia, in the Forlì Apennines.
The photo, taken by the lawyer Gian Raniero Paulucci of Forlì, it is the first certain proof of the presence of this predator in the Apennines for centuries. Good hopes for this animal's survival? Not really. According to experts, in fact, this surprising presence is in all probability the work of man. In fact, it would be an illegal release made in recent years. Even immigration from the Alpine area, where there are very few specimens, appears unlikely for geographical, environmental and demographic reasons.
The photos documenting the discovery were taken on the edge of an old cart track, in an area of the middle Forlì Apennines (altitude 400 m asl) characterized by wooded bands, bushy gullies, pastures and cultivated fields and rich in ungulates (roe deer, fallow deer, red deer and wild boar), hares, pheasants and red partridges.
They all are animals that fall within the food spectrum of this predator. In the past two decades, several sightings of lynx had been reported in the Tuscan-Emilian and Tuscan-Romagna Apennines, without however being supported by certain documentary evidence.
Roberta Ragni
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