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European big cat population threatened with extinction as genetics show the population is near collapse - Science & research news | Frontiers,by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Eurasian lynxes dispersed across the Swiss border with France in the late 1970s, but the population remains small and fragile. Scientists took genetic samples from lynxes in France and determined that the population’s genetic health is so dangerously tenuous it could be extinct in a generation. Scientists warn

European big cat population threatened with extinction as genetics show the population is near collapse – Science & research news | Frontiers

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Eurasian lynxes dispersed across the Swiss border with France in the late 1970s, but the population remains small and fragile. Scientists took genetic samples from lynxes in France and determined that the population’s genetic health is so dangerously tenuous it could be extinct in a generation. Scientists warn