A nine-month-old Eurasian lynx from Newquay Zoo in Cornwall has been relocated to Germany’s Black Forest to potentially become the first zoo-born lynx successfully released into the wild. This decision arose from a shortage of female lynxes within the European breeding program, driven by the work of Dina Gebhardt, the lynx-breeding coordinator. The lynx will be monitored while acclimating to its new environment. John Meek, curator at Newquay Zoo, emphasized the shift in zoo roles towards active conservation efforts rather than simply keeping animals captive.
Basically I'm Tinder for the zoo-born lynx, our nature is very fragmented, due to railways and streets and cities. And this means we created a lot of barriers for the lynx.
I'm a big boy but I had a few tears in my eyes. Nowadays, zoos are not here to keep animals in cages. They're there for conservation. And this is it, conservation in action.
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