Yes, it's one of the things that I'm most proud of is the Iberian lynx was extinct. It was declared under extinction and with a new project funded by the European Union, Portugal and Spain started the process of recovering the Iberian lynx. And it took maybe 15 years to recover with the lynx being incubated first in a facility. And then finally there was a day where we have to feel sufficiently comfortable to release the first lynx and then to have the normal reproductive path in the environment. And it worked. Can you imagine? Even a species can be recovered. So, if there is a will, there is the way.
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Jorge Moreira da Silva
Executive Director of UNOPS; former Portuguese Minister of Environment
Portugal · b. 1971
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Portuguese politician and international official who served as Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy and later as a director at the OECD, and is Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services.
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