It was only last year It was welcomed as a success story in memorizationThe Iberian lynzi, which was close to extinction, has returned to life thanks to an effort for two decades to expand the population.
Now, however, this progress is at risk after many regional governments in Spain The reinforcement of pressure from farmers and fishermen to prevent the re -introduction of species to the wild.
When demanding the Wildcat program on livestock, as well as rabbits and sweets, the opponents of the icenia achieved a breakthrough, and threatened to retract the efforts that helped its residents grow to about 2000 across Spain and Portugal.
The icenone was often a victim not to have serious objections but to unrealistic political quarrels, according to Ramon Peres de Ayala of the World Fund for Nature. Often, the right -wing Vox party, which claims to slow down the rights of farmers.
In Aragón, then the then -Agricultural Minister of Agriculture, Angel Samper, led a member of Vox. Samper claimed that Wildcats was attacking sheep. Perez de Ayala, a leading expert in Spain on the lymphus, says the attacks on livestock are not in practice.
Jorge Valero, head of the Fishing and Fishing Department of the Aragon government, also opposed Vox, the Lynx Return, saying: “It is a mistake to return them just because they were here 20 or 100 years ago. It makes us look like Jurassic Park.”
Fox separated from the Arajon government last summer amid allegations that Valero and another minister were defending former dictator Francisco Franco.
But it is not only that the original Wildcat in Spain is under pressure. Last month, the Catalan government approved the demands of the Association of the Farmers Association (farmers’ rebellion) to prevent the introduction of wolves, bears and Linux, despite a surplus of rabbits in most of the region. Perez de Ayala says rabbits make up 90 % of the lynic system.
The plan was to launch Lynx in the southwestern regions of Noguera and Garrigues, where there was an explosion in the population. However, the Catalan government has moved to the preferred option for farmers to give rabbits with aluminum phosphide.
Although the lynn has been welcomed in a large part of Castilla Y León in northwestern Spain, the local authorities are around Zamura and the Doru River is less enthusiastic.
“They do not want the fishermen, nor do farmers,” said Jose Martin, the mayor of Marz de Duwairo, of the Conservative People’s Party. “They say they will attract more tourism, but it is not worth it for the influence that you have on the way of our life.”
Perez de Ayala said the lynia was often preoccupied with unrelated arguments. He said: “Sometimes this is because the local authority is trying to pressure the government for something that has nothing to do with the connection or because of political fighting.”
He added that many opposition come from the hunting hall, echoing a job on Monday by Hugo Moran Fernandez, Spain’s Environment Minister. He said: “The problem arising from the extermination of some species is that there will be no one that the person responsible for declining fishing or livestock is declining.”
Twenty -five years before the Iberian lynzer (Lynx PardinusIt was close to extinction, after being classified, along with wolves, such as Vermin. After the coalition’s efforts, including the European Union, regional and national governments in Spain and Portugal, as well as NGOs of land life and the local population, its position was reduced last year from “endangered” to “weakness”.
Last week, Sarah Aiden, Minister of Environment, supervised the release of two females in Murcia in southeast Spain, and the total in the region reached 20.
