Portrait of a captive Eurasian Lynx, part of a breeding programme for a proposed re-wilding programme to release wildlife back into the wild in UK to


Portrait of a captive Eurasian Lynx, part of a breeding programme for a proposed re-wilding programme to release wildlife back into the wild in UK to replace populations persecuted into extinction. Similar programmes around Europe are having limited success owing to revenge hunting by livestock farmers.


Size: 3333px × 5000px
Location: Dorset UK
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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