The animal, which is still categorised as ‘vulnerable’, has been the subject of a 20-year conservation programme
Thu 20 Jun 2024 05.00 EDT
Less than a quarter of a century after the Iberian lynx was feared to be only a whisker away from extinction, populations of the animal have recovered enough across Spain and Portugal for it to be moved from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the global red list of threatened species.
The change in status, announced on Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN), is the result of a two-decade-long…
