https://www.biographic.com/bounding-toward-recovery/
"When Salão and Sidra step out of their carrying crates, the first ground the
two Iberian lynx feel beneath their paws is warm, tilled earth. It’s a bright
day in early May, and a crowd of about 75 people, including government
officials, schoolchildren and TV crews, watch from the corner of the fallow
farm field as Salão trots by at a languid pace. Sidra follows soon after, at a
faster clip. The two young lynx—honey-hued with black spots, ear tufts, and
short, ink-dipped tails—disappear into a dense thicket of gum rock rose.
A lot rides on Salão and Sidra’s fate in the mosaic of agricultural lands,
hunting estates, and scrublands that make up this part of the Guadiana Valley,
in the northeastern stretch of the Algarve region in southern Portugal. For
decades, conservationists considered the Iberian lynx (
Lynx pardinus) one of
the most endangered wild cats in the world. Biologists worried it would become
the first wild feline to go extinct in Europe in millennia. The cat once
thrived across much of the Iberian Peninsula and parts of southern France, but
by the mid-2000s, only a few scattered populations remained, all in southern
Spain. Today, though, nearly eight years into a wildly popular reintroduction
campaign in Portugal that brought Salão and Sidra to their new home, and a
parallel effort in Spain, the Iberian lynx is bounding toward recovery."
Via
Future Crunch:
<
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-maternal-mortality-high-seas-atlantic-forest/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:20:31 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
https://www.biographic.com/bounding-toward-recovery/
"When Salão and Sidra step out of their carrying crates, the first ground the
two Iberian lynx feel beneath their paws is warm, tilled earth. It’s a bright
day in early May, and a crowd of about 75 people, including government
officials, schoolchildren and TV crews, watch from the corner of the fallow
farm field as Salão trots by at a languid pace. Sidra follows soon after, at a
faster clip. The two young lynx—honey-hued with black spots, ear tufts, and
short, ink-dipped tails—disappear into a dense thicket of gum rock rose.
A lot rides on Salão and Sidra’s fate in the mosaic of agricultural lands,
hunting estates, and scrublands that make up this part of the Guadiana Valley,
in the northeastern stretch of the Algarve region in southern Portugal. For
decades, conservationists considered the Iberian lynx (
Lynx pardinus) one of
the most endangered wild cats in the world. Biologists worried it would become
the first wild feline to go extinct in Europe in millennia. The cat once
thrived across much of the Iberian Peninsula and parts of southern France, but
by the mid-2000s, only a few scattered populations remained, all in southern
Spain. Today, though, nearly eight years into a wildly popular reintroduction
campaign in Portugal that brought Salão and Sidra to their new home, and a
parallel effort in Spain, the Iberian lynx is bounding toward recovery."
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
<
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-we-are-reading-book-bans-climate-resilience/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
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