|  The arrival of five more Iberian lynx cubs last week takes to thirteen the number born in captivity in Spain this year.
The cubs were born in two centres - El Acebuche (Doņana) and La Olivilla (Sierra Morena) - as part of a breeding programme to protect what is considered to be the most threatened wild cat species in the world.
With this year's thirteen surviving cubs, a total of 37 lynx cubs have been born in captivity in Spain since 2005, when the programme began.
This is the first year that cubs born in captivity in La Olivilla from mothers also born in captivity have managed to survive, which is a huge step forward for the conservation of the species.
The breeding in captivity programme is now registering exponential growth, going from the first two surviving cubs born in 2005 to the fourteen that survived last year.
It is hoped that the number of cubs born this year will exceed last year's total. |
