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| Simon, M.A.; Gil-Sanchez, J.M.; Ruiz, G.; Garrote, G.; McCain, E.B.; Fernandez, L.; Lopez-Parra, M.; Rojas, E.; Arenas-Rojas, R.; Del Rey, T.; Garcia-Tardio, M.; Lopez, G. | |
| Reverse of the decline of the endangered Iberian lynx | |
| 2012 Conservation Biology (26): 731-736 | |
The Iberian lynx (_Lynx pardinus_) was declared critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2002, and the species is a flagship for conservation in Iberia. Palomares et al. (2011) conducted an assessment of Iberian lynx conservation efforts and predicted imminent extinction due to poor management. These authors based their inferences on information collected before the most substantial conservation programs began and extrapolated data from a nonrepresentative segment of the smaller of 2 remaining populations to model extinction probabilities for the species. The authors did not use available data from the first 9 years of an ongoing 14-year spatially extensive conservation and monitoring LIFE project (European Union funded projects for environmental and nature conservation) for the Iberian lynx. Thus, they overlooked substantial increases in lynx abundance, number of populations, and distribution over the past 5 years. Here, we provide an overview of ongoing conservation efforts and the current status of the Iberian lynx. |
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