LYNX COUNTRY, THE EXHIBIT PROMOTED BY IBERLINX AND ICNB, HAS ALREADY HAD MORE THAN 100 000 VISITORS
LYNX COUNTRY, THE EXHIBIT PROMOTED BY IBERLINX AND ICNB, HAS ALREADY HAD MORE THAN 100 000 VISITORS
On the 22nd of May 2010 the exhibit Land of the Lynx was inaugurated in Lisbon, in the Tropical Botanical Garden, with a group of truly spectacular photographs of wild Iberian lynx (Ly nx pardinus ) in their natural habitat, taken by the photographer Andoni Canela. Today, having had more than one hundred thousand visitors in Lisbon, Silves and Oporto, the exhibit is on display in Jaen, Spain, at the San Juan de Dios Hospital. Seville and Penamacor will follow on the exhibit’s tour.
Andoni Canela is a professional photographer of Spanish nationality specialized in nature photography. Winner of the Godó Photojournalism Award in 2009 for a report on the Iberian wolf, his work illustrates more than 30 articles in National Geographic magazine in different
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editions published in Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. He also has other work published in such prestigious publications as BBC Wildlife, Geo, Newsweek, La Vanguardia or The Sunday Times.
The Iberian lynx is the most threatened feline in the world; in 2009 it was estimated to have a global population of 220-225 individuals, occurring almost exclusively in Spain, with some sporadic detection in Portugal. The causes of its population decline are diverse but are related above all to the decrease in populations of wild rabbit, its preferred prey, and to loss of habitat. In effect, the species suffered an accentuated decline from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. In 1988 it was still estimated to have an effective total population of 1000-1200 individuals, reduced to less than 200 individuals in 2005. Following the implementation of diverse actions of conservation, this negative tendency apparently seems to be reversing, a small growth in population having been registered since then.
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