Friday, 23 October 2026
International edition · English
Europe
News, routes, wildlife, plants and mountain and nature guides in Portugal.
3 articles
At the start of the century fewer than a hundred were left. Today the Iberian lynx numbers more than 2,400 and is no longer listed as Endangered on the Red List. This is how it was achieved and what could still go wrong.
Some forests look like film sets: trunks a hundred metres tall, bamboo corridors, carpets of blue flowers or pines that grow bent without anyone quite knowing why. Ten places to see at least once.
There are only a few dozen of them, they live between the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bay of Biscay and since 2020 they have been interacting with the rudders of sailing boats. We review what is known —and what is not— about this unique population.
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