Good news from Montes de Toledo, the Iberian mountain range where four lynx cubs were born with the arrival of spring. A very sweet video where the animals, together with their mother, move freely.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Good news from Montes de Toledo, the Iberian mountain range where four lynx cubs were born with the arrival of spring. A very sweet video where the animals, together with their mother, move freely.
This was announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development of Castilla La-Mancha, Francisco Martínez Arroyo, who on social networks shows the video of the four puppies with their mother Lily.
This is good news because as we know, the lynxes had been reintroduced to the territory thanks to the Life Iberlince program, a project for the conservation of the Iberian lynx in Spain that involves all the autonomous communities.
Currently 83 specimens have been reintroduced in the territory and fortunately they are giving birth to puppies. The lynx, due to the loss of natural habitat, was disappearing, but these births give some hope for their survival in the eastern Sierra moraine and in the Montes de Toledo.
According to the ministry there are a total of 17 female lynxes. Some of them are monitored remotely: Malvasia gave birth to four puppies; Oils, five; Mirabel as many and has been reintroduced into nature. And still Nenúfar four others.
? With #spring come new litters of #IberianLynx born in freedom in the Montes de Toledo. On video, 4 new pups happily play alongside their new mother, Water Lily. Has it been established in the same area as Mazapán, a male 1 year older, with a name from Toledo? pic.twitter.com/EAcXAWAgZf
— Francisco Mtz Arroyo (@fmartinezarroyo) April 30,
About twenty years ago, the Iberian lynx was close to extinction, today the numbers have tripled. In 2013, another program in Andalusia financed by the Andalusian government and the European Union, had changed the fate of the lynx, classified as an animal “critically endangered”.
The lynx is more threatened than the Bengal tiger but fortunately with these new births, the risk of extinction recedes more and more.
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