Iberlince releases Nodriza, the last Iberian lynx of the year to be reintroduced in the province of Ciudad Real

With its release, there are from now on, eight bobcats released in the reintroduction area of Sierra Morena Oriental

The Life+Iberlince project released yesterday, May 11, in the farm 'Valdeladrones' located between the municipalities of Viso del Marqués and Almuradiel, in the province of Ciudad Real, to Nodriza, a new Iberian lynx.

With this, the releases planned this year in the area of reintroduction of Sierra Morena Oriental are officially closed.

With Nodriza, a one-year-old female born in captivity at the 'El Acebuche' hatchery in Huelva and daughter of Fauna and Durillo, there are now eight lynxes released in this area of reintroduction with the aim of further increasing Presence of the species in this area of the province of Ciudad Real.

The Deputy Minister of Environment of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, Agapito Portillo Sánchez, and the provincial director in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Carmen Delgado.

Nodriza joins Nature, Nou, Noitibó, Nimeria, Nival, Neón and Nasa, all of them released in the province of Ciudad Real during this reintroduction season.

Natureza, a female born last year at the Silves Captive Breeding Center (Portugal), was the first female lynx released in 2017 in the province of Ciudad Real and was released at the "Chicho Méndez" wildlife refuge, in the Municipal term of Castellar of Santiago.

Later, on two farms in the municipality of Castellar de Santiago were reintroduced Nou, a male born in the captive breeding center of Acebuche (Huelva); Noitibó and Nimeria, male and female from the captive breeding center of Silves in Portugal.

In the public mount of the Sierra del Viso del Marqués Nival was released, a male from the breeding center of Granadilla (Caceres), son of Jarilla and Gazpacho.

Later, the public mount of Viso of the Marquis Neón, a male born in captivity in the zoo of Jerez, son of Castañuela and Hydrogen, were also released; and Nasa, a female born in captivity in the breeding center of Zarza de Granadilla, whose parents are Fárfara and Helio.

The Life+Iberlince project since 2014 has released 54 copies in Sierra Morena Oriental and the Montes de Toledo, 23 of them in 2014 and 2015; 19 in 2016 and 12 in 2017, which is also joined by Labrador, a lynx that was transferred from the province of Badajoz.

After the release of all these lynx, at least twenty-five births have been recorded, after some of the females reintroduced under the Life+Iberlince reintroduction project have been born in the wild during the last two breeding seasons.

The reintroduction program plans to complete in the coming weeks the reintroductions planned in Castilla-La Mancha with the release of four more copies in the reintroduction area of Montes de Toledo.