A good one and a half years after the female lynx Alva was released into the wild in the Eibenstock Forest, the first offspring have appeared. The female fell into a photo trap with two cubs, according to the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology.
This is the first lynx reproduction in Saxony for almost 300 years, it added. A lynx stone in Saxon Switzerland commemorates the last known lynx to be killed in the state. It is dated April 3, 1743. Since then, the feline predator was thought to be extinct.
Alva comes from the Swiss mountain region of Jura and had already raised cubs there. She was captured at the beginning of March 2024 and released into the wild in Saxony after a three-week quarantine. Over time, three males were added as part of the "RELynx Saxony" project. The aim of the project is to establish a new population in the Ore Mountains.
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