How the EU saves, and kills, the lynx (BBC)

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By Mark Mardell
Europe editor, BBC News

On the edge of the Donana national park in Andalucia, just about at Spain's south-western tip, the pine forests hide a very special building.

It's a breeding project for one of the rarest wild cats in the world, the Iberian lynx.

They only live in this part of Spain, and while it's impossible to tell for sure, it's estimated that only about 150 of them are left in the wild.

So the fact there are 20 of them here and they are breeding is a triumph. The animals are monitored so carefully their every act is caught on camera. And microphone.

Some say the European Union has in effect saved them. Others that it backs projects that could be their final downfall.


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