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After a narrow escape from death, the future looked bright for Baba, a young Iberian lynx in the Coto Doñana National Park in southwest Spain. Last April, he was rescued from an illegal poacher's trap and nursed back to health, despite badly injured feet and legs. Then in July, he was released into the wild, outfitted with a radio collar to monitor his movements. But just weeks later, the radio signals stopped. A local park warden believes that Baba was killed, probably by a hunter keen for such a rare trophy. For centuries, the Iberian lynx...
...animals, birds and insects, 121 of which are new to the list since 2000. But not all the news is bad. In the last two years scientists have discovered at least two creatures once thought to be extinct that are now making a comeback. But the challenges facing the Iberian lynx are particularly dire. One reason for the lynx's dramatic decline is starvation - the unintended consequence of a failed ecological intervention. Since the 1950s, Europe's rabbit population - the lynx's main food source - has twice been hit by debilitating diseases. Myxomatosis decimated the rabbits after a French doctor...
...Spanish firms have poured more than €50 billion in Brazil - double the amount invested in Argentina - particularly across the telecom, banking and energy sectors. But the Brazilian real has gone into a downward spiral - the currency has lost one-third of its value since April - and taken some Iberian earnings along for the ride. Last month, Spanish giant Telefónica cited currency woes as a reason for its reported 23% fall in Latin American revenues in the first half of 2002. Last week SCH, Spain's largest bank, registered a 13% drop in first-half earnings and said...
...Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies issues about 25 certificates a year and the number has also been regularly increasing, according to Stephen J. Reifenberg, executive director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
...East much later. The clan of Helena, the most common matrilineal ancestor of modern Europeans, is thought to have emerged from Ice Age refuges around the Pyrenees and migrated northward as the ice sheets began receding around 13,000 years ago. Velda's people similarly dispersed northward from the Iberian Peninsula, while Tara and Katrine's clans spread northward from present-day Italy. The descendants of Xenia are thought to have spread from an origin in the Caucasus not only westward into Europe, but also eastward and into the Americas. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, Jasmine's people brought...