The Missing Lynx

There were very few Iberian lynx on the Iberian peninsula in the 1970s after a combination of human persecution and a shortage of their preferred rabbit prey (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/25/the-lynx-effect-iberian-cat-claws-its-way-back-from-brink-of-extinction). The situation is much more rosy now, after several decades of conservation and reintroductions. In deed, numbers have recently rocketed in Spain from 94 in 2002 to 855 in 2020. Tracking these shy, crepuscular animals has also greatly improved, aided by the use of camera traps. It would be nice to get them back in some defined UK locations as they are a good apex predator but are not especially dangerous to humans and their domestic animals.