What can be done to get the Iberian lynx off the endangered list?

Answer 1

what is being done to help the lynx population? i need to know for a paper im writing for school. it has to be turned in like in 3 days!

Answer 2

Remove hunting and road kill pressures on the Doñana lynx population and in areas where the

lynx could be recovered in the future.

• Protect existing and potential habitat from intensive agriculture and forestry developments,

dams, roads and urbanization.

• Restore habitat and recover rabbit populations in Doñana and Andujar, and in areas where the

lynx could be recovered in the future.

• Expand the wild populations by improving habitat and rabbit availability, and decreasing

human impacts, in neighbouring areas.

• Reintroduce lynx from a successful captive breeding programme, and translocate animals

between wild populations, to increase the number, size, diversity and viability of Iberian Lynx

populations in the wild.

15. Important urgent actions required to achieve these goals include:

• Avoiding the implementation of a number of existing development proposals for new roads,

agriculture and urbanisation in lynx areas.

• Decreasing the speed and number of vehicles using particular roads around Doñana, where

many lynx have already been killed.

• Reviewing transport, water, agriculture and forestry policies to ensure that they are compatible

with long term lynx and rabbit recovery in Spain and Portugal.

• Developing new techniques to recover rabbit populations in Spain and Portugal.

• Improving legislation, and the adherence to existing legislation, concerning the timing, extent

and location of rabbit hunting, particularly in lynx areas.

• Improving techniques, and the adherence to legislation, in the control of common rabbit

predators, such as foxes, so that lynx are not also killed by these activities.

• Increasing monitoring to establish the exact number and causes of decline of the Doñana

population, and the fate of young cubs in Andujar.

• Increasing planning to establish where lynx should be reintroduced in the future, and habitat

protected, to recreate a viable "metapopulation".

• Expanding the fledgling captive breeding programme to include centres in Portugal, and

Castilla de la Mancha and Extramadura in Spain, to spread risks, increase the effectiveness of

the programme and maintain an Iberian Lynx.

• Approving and implementing official lynx recovery plans, and sufficient Natura 2000 areas, to

cover all existing lynx areas, and areas for recovery in the future.

• Increasing and maintaining current "outreach" efforts towards hunters, land managers and the

local population in lynx areas, to alter their activites, and demands for development, making

them compatible with long term lynx recovery.

• Providing more financial incentives for nature conservation and sustainable development on

private land, where most lynx now survive.

• Increasing and sustaining financial support for rabbit and lynx conservation and recovery from

regional and national governments, and the European Union.

• Increasing co-ordination between organisations campaigning to save the Iberian Lynx, to

improve lobbying, and counterbalance conflicting policies and interests.

Answer 3

We can help rebuild their population by breeding them in captivity. Some scientists are already doing this, so do your part! Save the lynx!

Another way to help is to make more land preserved and put the lynx in there, then we just add their natural habitat's plants and animals!

Answer 4

Poachers hunt animals, even in protected areas, so the best way would be to catch a male and female Iberian lynx and keep them in an enclosed area, and when there are lots and lots of them, let them go, or keep a few to get more kittens.

Answer 5

Education, education, education... The WWF, world wildlife fund, and other similar organizations is letting the public know how endangered they are and gathering relief funds to try to help increase numbers few zoos are also getting involved by a captive breed program which is a program that tries to breed the specie of animal to maintain it's current numbers in the zoo environment others also do rehabilitation programs and re-release the animal in the wild, in other words if one is found injured it is nursed back to health and if it can still fend for itself it is let go when back to 100% health

Answer 6

plant a cork tree or donate to WWF or other wild life foundations.:3

Answer 7

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