Skip to the content “LPN and Fauna & Flora International (FFI)
through the lynx programme have managed to secure some of the
best land in the country for Iberian lynx. I think with time and
common effort, we’ll be able to secure a future for lynx in
Portugal.” Liga Para A Protecção Da Natureza (LPN) Did you know
that the world’s rarest cat species can be found in Europe?
There are only around 300 remaining in the wild. To help the
lynx, you can buy wine with cork stoppers. The lynx needs a
combination of cork oak woodlands and open scrubland to survive.
Cork harvesting is both traditional and sustainable – the outer
layer of bark is peeled off, leaving the tree standing and able
to grow it back for the next harvest. So by buying real corks,
you are helping to maintain cork oak trees and indirectly, the
conditions for the Iberian lynx. This lynx was distributed over
the entire Iberian Peninsula as recently as the mid-nineteenth
century. It is now restricted to very small areas, with breeding
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