A cattle producer found three newborn Iberian lynxes in a reserve haystack in the municipality of Toledo, Spain. According to the Spanish newspaper El Paísthe cubs were alone and sleeping peacefully.
When the alert was raised, environmental agents from the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Spanish Civil Guard went to the farm and found that the chicks were on the straw bed, “sleeping peacefully”.
“At first [o produtor] he thought they were cats, but they looked different and decided to call 112”, explains the coordinator of environmental agents in Castilla-La Mancha, Alfonso Sánchez.
The cattle breeder usually keeps spare bales of straw in the warehouse where the offspring were found. As she does not use the space regularly, the female found a refuge there to give birth in peace.
At the time of the visit, environmental agents decided to install cameras at the sitein order to observe how the mother fed them, but this Monday the mother decided to transfer them to another location.
The female is a free-born specimen and is not equipped with any tracking device and is therefore unable to be tracked.
This type of feline was no longer in critical danger of extinction in 2015.
Both in Spain and Portugal, with the Lynx Program of the League for the Protection of Nature (LPN), efforts have been made to conserve this species.
