Laurent Geslin / Young male European lynx (Lynx lynx) running after release in Jura Mountaiins, Geneva canton, Switzerland, May 2013.

Laurent Geslin / Vet and KORA team putting a radio collar on wild European lynx (Lynx lynx) for translocation to Kalkalpen National Park, Austria from Switzerland. May 2011.

Laurent Geslin / Conservationists releasing radio collared wild European lynx (Lynx lynx) from Switzerland into Kalkalpen National Park, Austria, March 2013.

Laurent Geslin / European lynx (Lynx lynx) emerging from crate during translocation from Switerland to Kalkalpen National Park, Austria. May 2011

Laurent Geslin / Photographer Laurent Geslin putting back wild European lynx (Lynx lynx) kittens in den after a veterinary check up. Switerland, June 2014.

Roland Seitre / Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx), native to Europe and Asia

Edwin Giesbers / European lynx (Lynx lynx) walking in snow, captive, Norway, February.

Edwin Giesbers / Face portrait of a European lynx (Lynx lynx), captive, Norway, February.

Mark Carwardine / European lynx (Lynx lynx) rescued from poachers, Utyos Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, Kutuzovka Village, Russian Far East

Peter Cairns / European Lynx (Lynx lynx) in birch forest in snow, Tromso, Norway, captive, April

ZSSD / Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx), native to Europe

Juan Carlos Munoz / Young European lynx {Lynx lynx} Laponia / Lappland , Finland Captive