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The birth rate in the Iberian lynx population in the Guadiana Valley is the highest in the Iberian Peninsula, according to the results of the 2019 census published this Tuesday by the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF).
The results indicate that the birth rate (productivity rate) in the Guadiana Valley is the highest in the peninsula, highlighting that, in 2019, of the 13 referenced litters, three generated five offspring each, when previously the maximum registered it was four young.
The ICNF adds that this birth rate is “revealing the abundance of food, the availability and suitability of the habitat and the tranquility provided by the owners and administrators of the territory, in addition to the acceptance by the resident population.”
The results of the censuses also reveal that the Iberian lynx population in the Guadiana Valley reached, at the end of 2019, a total of 107 specimens, of which 61 are adults older than one year and 46 cubs born in the spring of the year past. out of 13 breeding females, out of a total of 27 referenced females.
Adult or subadult males reached a total of 34 specimens, says the ICNF.
The Iberian lynx population was reintroduced in the Guadiana Valley as of 2015, within the framework of the Iberian project LIFE + Iberlince. During 2019, the area occupied or used by the lynx underwent a significant increase, having exceeded 300 square kilometers, grouped into four nuclei that are distributed throughout the territories of Serpa, Mértola, Castro Verde and Alcoutim.
The ICNF informs that these data are the result of a demanding monitoring work carried out by the elements of the Department of Conservation of Nature and Alentejo Forests, of the ICNF, using innovative techniques of monitoring and detection by telemetry and by photo-trapping. Part of the work was carried out in an articulated way between Portugal and Spain.
