In the article, the authors analysed data on 320 orphaned lynx from nine different populations in 13 countries. Of these, 66 were released after rehabilitation. Two third of these released individuals survived the first year, and ten reproduced at least once. These findings give hope for translocations of lynx to increase genetic diversity in the isolated, small lynx populations of central and western Europe.
INN-professor Marco Heurich has co-authored this article on orphaned lynx. Find the full version here.