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Recovery needs continuity
A change in extinction risk is worth celebrating. It is also a reason to keep going. The Iberian Lynx’s recovery links habitat, rabbits, breeding and reintroductions. Safer connections between populations remain part of the work.
IUCN’s 2024 recovery account
Spain & Portugal · coordinated census
These are different age classes and years. They are not a like-for-like growth series.
Read the evidence ↓Its world.
Its conservation.
Roads between populations
Road deaths remain a serious obstacle as lynxes spread into new areas.
The prey connection
Healthy rabbit populations are part of the lynx’s future.
Recovery takes coordination
Long-term monitoring and cooperation help sustain the gains.
Keep the method
in the picture.
Individual identification and coordinated monitoring build the census across Spain and Portugal. MITECO cautions that recording every lynx becomes harder as the population expands; the 2025 total is a minimum.
What don’t we know?
How can expanding populations remain connected while crossing fewer dangerous roads? A rising total does not answer that landscape question.
Geographic context
Spain & Portugal.
This is geographic context, not a mapped distribution. Range polygons require taxon, date and reuse review before publication.
A different cat.
A different question.
Sources & Research Notes
Source check: 7 September 2026. Independent scientific sign-off remains pending.
Assessment year and field-data period are different. A source check does not update an assessment.