After months of waiting, Sergio’s carefully set camera trap finally gave him the picture he wanted: a young Iberian lynx perfectly framed in the doorway of an abandoned hayloft on a farm in Spain.

At the turn of the 20th Century, more than a hundred thousand Iberian lynx roamed ... the teams monitor every lynx 24 hours a day Now five of these state-of-the-art facilities exist across Spain ...

the lynx was thrown a lifeline in 2002 when the European Union (EU) stepped in to provide vital funds One of four living species, the Iberian lynx occupies a mosaic of wood and scrubland habitat ...