{"id":1262,"date":"2015-12-29T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/2015\/12\/29\/drones-to-help-track-spains-iberian-lynx\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T10:14:58","slug":"drones-to-help-track-spains-iberian-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/drones-to-help-track-spains-iberian-lynx\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones to help track Spain’s Iberian lynx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to the original article: The Telegraph<\/a><\/h4>\n\n

In Spain, conservationists will use drones to help save the endangered Iberian lynx after a technology consortium reached an agreement with regional authorities.<\/p>\n\n

The beautiful animal, which has numbered 327 in the wild since the critical level of 94 at the turn of the century, has benefited from a captive breeding program.<\/p>\n\n

However, they often travel long distances after being released, exposing them to greater risks, particularly from traffic. Last year, 21 died on Spanish roads.<\/p>\n\n

Jos\u00e9 Fiscal, Andalusia’s head of environment, said on Monday that using the best available technology had already helped the animal’s recovery, but more had to be done.<\/p>\n\n

The current system consists of a radio operator tuning the collars worn by released lynxes.<\/p>\n\n

Now, an agreement has been signed between a technological consortium and the Junta de Andaluc\u00eda to design an air tracking system.<\/p>\n\n

The \u20ac20,000 deal with tech companies Enel Green Power and Microsensory will see the development of a prototype specifically designed to track lynx equipped with radio markers.<\/p>\n\n

“These collars have provided valuable information on the territory and routes used by individual cats, but tracking was terrain dependent and required daily monitoring by an operator,” said Fiscal<\/p>\n\n

Lynx have been released in five different locations considered sufficiently remote and where rabbit breeding programs have been launched this year in Spain and neighboring Portugal.<\/p>\n\n

In March, however, the World Wide Fund for Nature reported that a young male named Kentario had wandered more than 60 miles from where he was released, in Toledo province, tracked down just 30 miles from central Madrid. after crossing several highways.<\/p>\n\n

While in October a lynx named Hongo, who had saved himself from drowning in an irrigation pond as a cub, was found dead on a road in Portugal, 150 miles from where he was nursed back to health and released in its natural habitat in Do\u00f1ana, Andalusia. National Park.<\/p>\n\n

Scientists recently confirmed that several lynxes had made their home in the Guadarrama Mountains near the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drones will save the endangered Iberian lynx in Spain. Prototype will follow bobcats with radius markers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-and-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_drones_ayudar_lince1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsensory.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}