When conservationists began efforts to save the Iberian lynx, a wild cat that had long been considered a symbol of the Iberian Peninsula, they felt the lynx would be extinct in roughly five years ...

The Iberian lynx was saved by a breeding programme and a ‘hearts and minds’ campaign in rural Spain. But the feline again faces rising opposition.

Just over two decades ago, the pointy-eared wild cat was on the brink of extinction ... efforts mean that the animal, native to Spain and Portugal, is now barely a vulnerable species, according ...

They then combined this data with what is already known about the evolutionary relationships between living and extinct cats to predict the eye color of the first cats using a statistical model.

The species occupies about 1,282 square miles in Portugal and Spain, a significant increase from when the cats lived in about ... they felt the lynx would be extinct in roughly five years if ...

From being classed as at risk of extinction ... of the carnivorous wild cat has met with resistance in Catalonia, Aragon and parts of Castilla y Leon in northern Spain. Farmers in Zamora, a ...