Tragic record of Iberian lynx killed in assaults – La Vanguardia

Tragic record of Iberian lynx killed in assaults – La Vanguardia

Barcelona / Cordoba (Writing and agencies) .- An adult male without rediomarcador Friday September 5 became the victim number 17 of that year in the tragic balance of Iberian lynx ( Lynxs pardina ) dead accident of traffic. Early in the morning a driver alerted agents of the Ministry of Environment of the Andalusian of the existence of lynx killed in an asphalt country road in Algallarín environment in the municipality Adamuz (Córdoba).

The outrage in Algallarín raises to 17 the number of these endangered cats killed in assaults (roads and railways) so far this year, representing a record that surpasses the mark 14 individuals died from this cause, registered in 2013, according to data from the LIFE program Iberlince.

Eleven of these seventeen lynx killed in the first nine months of this year belonged to the people of Sierra Morena and the six . remaining to Doñana

Córdoba is the Andalusian province which has killed over Bobcats run over this year, with seven dead cats, followed by Huelva, with five; . Jaén, four, and Seville, one

In addition to these 17 lynx killed by trampling on roads or railways have recorded at least four dead specimens unnaturally: a lynx beaten Vilches (Jaén), where also another feline was located which, despite being radiolabeled, were only found his skeletal remains; a puppy more dead in Huelva, near a road and lynx reintroduced in Extremadura who died weeks after poisoning in Valencia de las Torres (Badajoz).

denounce the low activity of administracionesa

The conservation organization WWF reported last August that, in his opinion, “both the Department of Development of the Junta de Andalucía and the Ministry of Public Works to continue liabilities increased collisions with Bobcats on the road. ” WWF believes that a record of violations this year requires further action in areas where most accidents occur, to repair fences and construction of wildlife crossings.

WWF has sent a letter the Ministry of Public Works and Housing of the Government of Andalusia to demand immediate actions to protect cement the world’s most endangered feline.

The organization also claims that the Ministry of Public Works has not done anything to fix the four black spots on roads within their jurisdiction. Until now, delivery of the first 15,000 signatures ciberactistas WWF campaign Neither a hit lynx has just obtained promises of Public Works have not materialized on the ground.

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