A quiet disappearance in plain sight
The Iberian wildcat in Spain isn’t a species most people ever notice, and that’s part of the problem. It moves through fragmented woodland and scrub with almost ghost-like secrecy. Yet across southern and eastern Spain, its presence is fading in ways that are becoming harder to ignore.
What makes this more complicated is that its decline doesn’t come from a single cause. It’s a mix of pressure points that overlap and reinforce each other.
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