Wildwood Trust: Lynx beat Brexit

Two lynx kittens arrived this weekend from the Parc des Félins in France, photograph taken 4 weeks ago

Lynx beat BREXIT by days

Brexit chaos nearly caused disaster for wildlife conservationists

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Two beautiful lynx kittens have just arrived in the nick of time at the popular wildlife conservation charity Wildwood Trust.

As BREXIT looms, conservations at Wildwood Trust have been working around the clock to create facilities to care for the animals. The last two weeks has seen frantic activity to ensure the lynx could be moved before the BREXIT deadline at the end of the month.

The two lynx, a male and a female from France, arrived at Wildwood this weekend.

The Eurasian lynx is seen by many in Britain’s rewilding movement as the best species to help breath life into our wild places and restore natural biodiversity. The animals are vital in Wildwood’s mission to educate people about what a rewilded Britain would look like.

Footage of the lynx available by request

The two lynx kittens will be joined by Cara and Shria, two lynx already living at Wildwood

Wildwood’s Mark Habben, Head of Living Collections, said:

“It was a race against time, but worth it. Brexit had made the movement of the animals across Britain’s borders a lot more uncertain. Enhanced controls and transport issues would have meant compromised animal welfare and more work for us''

“The lynx once roamed free across Britain, maintaining a delicate ecological balance, which might come to be again. They are an important part of the story of how we can protect nature for future generations, and use rewilding as a tool to combat catastrophic climate change by sucking carbon back into the ground”

CONTACT:

Julie Luna Bayer: julie@wildwoodtrust.org or 07453 497086

Peter Smith: peter@wildwoodtrust.org or 07986 828229

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ABOUT WILDWOOD

Wildwood Trust opened in 1999 as a centre of excellence for the conservation of British wildlife, and was established as a registered charity in 2002.
Wildwood is Kent's best British wildlife park. Home to over 200 native animals, past and present and set in 40 acres of beautiful ancient woodland where visitors can see bears, wolves, bison, deer, owls, foxes, red squirrels, wild boar, lynx, wild horses, badgers and beavers plus many more.
As one of the leading British animal conservation charities in the UK, Wildwood Trust is dedicated to saving Britain's most threatened wildlife.
Wildwood Trust have taken part in many ground-breaking conservation programmes to date, which include, saving the water vole, using wild horses to help restore Kent's most precious nature reserves, bringing the extinct European beaver back to Britain and returning the hazel dormouse & red squirrel to areas where they have been made extinct.