In 2002, scientists counted just 94 Iberian lynx left on Earth, a species once spread across the peninsula now trapped in two isolated pockets. Protected since 1969, the Doñana population still vanished, and researchers finally found why: the lynx’s food supply had collapsed decades earlier.
In 2002, a wildlife biologist in Andalusia counted 94 Iberian lynx left in the wild. The species, once widespread across the Iberian Peninsula, had been reduced to two isolated populations in southern Spain, one in Doñana National Park and one in the Sierra Morena mountains. Doñana had been under legal protection since 1969, but the lynx population there was still declining.The reserve was protect…