[FEL-L] Spain Scraps Motorway Plan to Save Lynx

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Spain Scraps Motorway Plan to Save Lynx 

SPAIN: June 1, 2007 
MADRID - Spain has ditched plans to build a 300-km motorway across the 
country's sun-baked plains because it would have threatened the 
Iberian lynx, one of the world's most endangered animals. 
The road linking the ancient capital of Toledo with the southern city 
of Cordoba would have cut straight through several protected areas, 
including the nocturnal cat's last viable refuge in the Sierra Morena 
mountains. 
Environmentalists estimate only 250 to 350 Iberian lynxes remain in 
the world, all of them in Spain. 
Other threatened species such as the imperial eagle, Iberian wolf and 
black stork would also have suffered if the motorway had gone ahead, 
Spain's environment ministry said. 
The new road would have trapped lynxes between two main highways, 
ecologists said, killing any chance of the animals spreading to new 
areas and recovering numbers. 
"This is excellent news," said Theo Oberhuber of Spanish 
environmentalist group Ecologists in Action. 
Lynx numbers have been ravaged in the last 150 years by farming, 
poaching and road kills and their population has shrunk to few 
scattered groups in central and southern Spain. 
Planners will now explore alternative routes for the road. 
Story by Ben Harding 
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE 
_http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42292/story.htm_ 
(http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42292/story.htm)  



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