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| Hetherington, D. | |
| The history of the Eurasian Lynx in Britain and the potential for its reintroduction | |
| 2008 British Wildlife: 77-86 | |
The broad natural distribution of the Eurasian Lynx _Lynx lynx_ extends from western Europe to eastern Siberia, and from north of the Arctic Circle south to the Mediterranean, Middle East and Himalayas. However, this range has been severely curtailed in Europe by centuries of human-driven habitat destruction, prey decline and direct persecution, and in the 19th and early 20th centuries the dwindling Lynx population completely disappeared from its last refuges in western and central Europe. From the middle of the 20th century, however, legal protection and reverses in the decline of both habitat and prey have allowed the species to recolonise naturally areas of lost ground in Scandinavia and eastern Europe, while a series of reintroduction projects since the 1970s has seen the species restored to parts of western and central Europe. |
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