for example by converting pine plantations back to their original scrubland, have paid off and in June this year, the IUCN upgraded the status of the Iberian lynx from endangered to vulnerable.

More Jose Angel Cortes Garcia/Getty Using specialized clean room facilities to prevent contamination, scientists extracted nuclear DNA from Iberian lynx bones dating back 2,500 to 4,000 years.

The implications can be severe because, without genetic diversity, a population does not have a “genetic database” to fall back on to adapt to environmental change. The Iberian lynx (Lynx ...

The Iberian lynx, once on the brink of extinction, may soon make a long-awaited return to Almería’s wild landscape. This week ...

"The Iberian lynx was very, very close to extinction ... Within days of his release from the centre he began heading back to Doñana, swimming across the Guadiana river to reach Spain.

It's a rare case of a species being saved from near-extinction. Twenty years ago, the Iberian lynx was the most threatened feline in the world due to poaching and the animals' natural habitat ...

The Iberian lynx was saved by a breeding programme ... forced the Catalan regional government to drop plans to bring back the lynx. Despite a plague of rabbits devouring crops in ...

This is a wildlife success story about a lynx that has come back from the brink of extinction. MCCOY: Yes. So we're talking about the Iberian lynx. These are medium-sized wild cats that only live ...

The rehabilitation of the Iberian lynx is one of the great conservation success stories. In 2002, just 94 remained in a few isolated pockets of habitat, and only 25 of them were females of cub ...