Put a cork in it and save the lynx

There’s good news from Portugal. 

An area there has been set aside for Europe’s rarest mammal, the Iberian lynx. The agreement between Portugal’s Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry and local landowners covers 700 hectares in Mertola, 130km south of Lisbon.

The habitat will be protected so reintroduced lynx can hunt and breed, unmolested. There may even be a tourist pay-off; visitors will want to see this iconic animal.