Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...
Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The implications can be severe because without genetic diversity, a population does ...
Once on the verge of extinction, the Iberian lynx is making a dramatic comeback, according to a recent update by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In 2002, the Iberian lynx ...
Cross-species hybridization is a more frequent phenomenon than previously thought. In the past, it happened with modern humans; it is estimated that our genome contains about 2% Neanderthal DNA. We ...
The Iberian lynx has become one of Europe’s most celebrated conservation stories. Once pushed close to extinction, this spotted wild cat is now expanding again across parts of Spain and Portugal, a ...
When conservationists began efforts to save the Iberian lynx, a wild cat that had long been considered a symbol of the Iberian Peninsula, they felt the lynx would be extinct in roughly five years if ...
Iberian lynx recovery in Spain has been hailed as a conservation success story. Said to be among the world’s most endangered feline species, Iberian lynx numbers fell to just 200 in the wild 20 years ...
Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The implications can be severe because without genetic diversity, a population does ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results