It took another three years before Portugal decided on a national conservation action plan to save the species. A National Breeding Centre for Iberian lynxes was built in Silves in the Algarve. Here ...

In 2005, a female gave birth to the very first litter of Iberian lynx to be born in captivity at the El Acebuche wildlife centre in Doñana National Park, a symbol of hope for the future of the ...

With his leopard-like spots, Navarro - a male lynx - calls out during mating ... He eventually made his way to Doñana, a national park in southern Spain where he had come from originally.