Lynx kitten raises hopes for survival of Slovenian population

Ljubljana, 4 February - Efforts to revive the small and heavily inbred population of lynx in Slovenia appear to be paying off as a lynx kitten has recently been captured and tagged, the descendant of a male that had been brought from Romania to diversify the population's gene pool.

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