Comité Nacional de Miembros de España de la UICN

El presente informe supone el final de un largo proceso de aportación del Comité Español de la UICN al proceso de mociones, iniciado en 2007 tras la profesionalización de la entarget_idad y la fundación de su Oficina Técnica. Este proceso centra sus comienzos en la organización, coordinación y presentación de mociones de forma participativa con la membresía española en 2008 de cara al Congreso Mundial de Barcelona y considera las sucesivas sugerencias, recomendaciones, etc de mejora realizadas al secretariado por parte del CeUICN.

The present report means the end of a long process of contribution of the IUCN Spanish Committee to the motions process which started in 2007 after the professionalization of the entity and the foundation of its new Technical Department. This process focuses its beginning in the organization, coordination and submission of motions in a participatory way with the Spanish membership in 2008 with a view to the Barcelona World Congress and it considers the following as suggestions, recommendations, etc done by the IUCN Spanish National Committee to the Secretariat for the improvement.

This publication describes the very urgent situation regarding the Iberian Lynx. Its position on IUCN's red list as critically endangered indicates that the chances of extinction are quite real. Extinction of the lynx would mean the fist extinction of a big cat in Europe since the disappearance of the Sabre-toothed tiger approximately 10.000 years ago. Many of the dangers the lynxes are confronted with have a close relation to human activities (infrastructural developments, traffic and expanding agriculture).