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Premiere Issue, Autumn 1984
Dr Ulrich Wotchikovsky, on behalf of the European Lynx Group, contributed a paper
reviewing the status of the lynx in Europe.
There was a good population in Fennoscandia, with 150-700 in Norway, 700 in Sweden
(compared with 400 20 years ago) and 200-300 in Finland. The Carpathian forests of
Eastern Europe were fully inhabited with about 600 in Poland and 400 in
Czechoslovakia.
Lynx had been reintroduced in Yugoslavia, West Germany, Austria and Switzerland with
considerable success, although there had been opposition from hunters and a number had
been shot, especially in Austria and Yugoslavia. There had been some problems of sheep
killing, and lynx had also taken introduced mouflon. In general knowledge of the ecology
of the lynx was weak. The main threat to re-introduced lynx was the hunter.
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Fierce Controversy over Lynx in Switzerland
Lynx in Switzerland
Hunters Kill Introduced Lynx
Plea for the Pyrenian Lynx
Fox and Lynx in Doņana National Park
Lynx in Switzerland
Cat Skins on Sale in Lhasa
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