Wandering Lynx recaptured from Barcelona hideaway

Editor 07 June 2018

Wandering Lynx recaptured from Barcelona hideaway The incredible journey of ‘Lítio the wandering lynx’ has, for now, come to an end.

The young feline is back at a Spanish wildlife centre after having roamed over 1,100 kms from the Algarve’s Guadiana valley, all the way to the outskirts of Barcelona (click here).

Marking history for being the first lynx sighted in Catalonia for 100 years, Lítio’s new home was fraught with potential danger: being much too close to major roads and far from an ideal source of food.

Thus staff members attached to the Spanish-Portuguese Life Iberlince project teamed up with local forestry agents and laid some elaborate ‘traps’.

Suffice it to say, Lítio has been caught and is “safe and sound”. No one is saying more than that, nor when Lítio will be allowed to get back his freedom.

Project IberLince has been running since 2002 when the wild lynx population was down to just 94 felines (all of them in Spain), reports Diário de Notícias. This critical situation has been reversed to the point that in the last census - taken in 2017 - there were 589 of these distinctive wild cats spread over Spain and Portugal.

Article by kind permission of http://portugalresident.com
E: natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

Comments

+8 #6 marjolein massis 2018-06-08 22:28

Well it is nice to learn that Mr. Jack Reacher at least knows that Lynx do not bark.

-8 #5 Jack Reacher 2018-06-08 21:00

Quoting marjolein massis:

Why be negative about this wonderful news. Reality or not. Dog some time do it why not a Lynx?

I find it hard to get excited by fake news. Btw the Lynx is a medium sized Felidae or cat. They dont bark.

+7 #4 marjolein massis 2018-06-08 20:42

One of the reasons that Portugal has so few lynx in the wild is the boar hunting using traps. Traps are placed in every national park and on many large private properties. It is a old tradition and hard to get rid off. On my property I have found 4 lynx dead in traps, the last one about 3 years ago. After that no more traces of lynx, alive or dead. Most wild animals will slowly adapt to modern life. They learn to be careful crossing a road or a railroad track, they learn to be careful with people but traps will kill them. As long as so many Portugese persons have so little respect in general for animals all wildlife will be killed and placing lynx of dear out in the wild will be a waste of time and lives. So long the Portugese love bullfights and the Camara's kill found dogs en cats after a few weeks and traps are placed all over the land I am very happy this lynx, one way of the other, found a reasonable save place.

+5 #3 marjolein massis 2018-06-08 14:55

Why be negative about this wonderful news. Reality or not. Dog some time do it why not a Lynx?

+2 #2 Taz 2018-06-08 12:54

If the Lynx travelled 1100kms to get to where he was found, why is it assumed the location is less than ideal source of food? I expect if he did not like the location and was hungry, he is capable of moving again.

-5 #1 Jack Reacher 2018-06-08 08:19

So you are telling me that Litio the Lynx travelled 1100kms, crossing roads,motorways, high speed rail lines and swimming across rivers.. all without Google Maps. Lucky he never came across the EN125 and the monster potholes for that surely would have finished him off. Release the gps data to the public and make it believable.

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