The lynx is not about URL links but about an animal that is endangered.
Norway has judged the population of the Lynx is overwhelming at the incredible number of 500. The Norwegian government authorized the killing of one hundred of these beautiful animals.
The history of the Lynx and man is about hunting the Lynx for its pelt. The Lynx's beautiful and luxurious tipped guard hairs fetches a pretty price from furriers. It is because of this practice that the Lynx is slowly becoming extinct. The other reason, of course, just plain game hunting.
The Lynx echoes the same false blame that wolves received and have had to endure for their fight for survival. Farmers claimed that these felines were killing their livestock of sheep. It is a speculation, but a possibility, that these farmers may be making this claim to also make a financial gain from the hunt through the Lynx's pelt. By law they can't sell these pelts but it is also difficult to enforce this law.
What we know about our feline friend with its padded snowshoe type paws is his diet consists largely of rodents and particularly hares. In the colder northern climates, the Lynx ocassionally preys on reindeer. Their eating habits are likened to the squirrel in that they don't waste food and they store food for future use. Similar to the domestic cat of the 15th & 16th century, the Lynx is not given credit for maintaining the rodent population at a healthy level. But then rodents don't possess the fur for financial gain to cause a hunt for them, now do they. It is interesting to fantasize that history could be repeating itself here.
This official government sanction hunt was authorized in February of 1997. The Hunt has no boundaries and will indeed murder nursing and pregnant females and their cubs.
I could throw out fancy statistics about how this hunt will cause the extinction of the Lynx but I think all you have to do is just visualize the land mass of Norway and only five hundred Lynx for that area. It isn't hard to imagine what will happen.
The information on this atrocity is late. But it isn't too late to express ourselves opposing this genocide.
These three links will aid in you actively voicing you concern for this endangered species; please use them.
The PETITION web page is still active online at http://lynx.uio.no/jon/formeng.htm
This page is regularly updated
Miljovernminister Thorbjorn Bernstsen
Miljoverndepartementet
P.O. Box 8013 Dep
0030 Oslo Norway
It informs you of this growing international trend.
The petition link is also listed on my Action Links page.
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