LIFE LUPILYNX brings together six organisations from Portugal and Spain working in nature conservation in the regions of Guarda, Castelo Branco and Extremadura.
The Lobo Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental environmental association (ONGA), founded on September 18, 1985, and recognized with Public Utility status. As part of the Signatus Program, the Lobo Group initiated a strategy whose areas of action aim to inform public opinion, support scientific studies, and promote practical conservation measures.
The Lobo Group's mission is to work towards the conservation of the wolf and its ecosystem in Portugal and to foster interest in the wolf and the sciences that concern it through informing public opinion. It is also the purpose of this Association to develop efforts to establish the legal, ecological, and socioeconomic conditions indispensable for the effective conservation of the national wolf population. This Association is a member of the APZA – Portuguese Association of Zoos and Aquariums; the CCCL – Castro Laboreiro Dog Club; the LPDA – Portuguese League for Animal Rights; the WSPA – World Society for the Protection of Animals; and is an Honorary Fellow of the Cão da Serra da Estrela Brotherhood.
The project receives co-funding from the following programmes and institutions:
The LIFE programme isthe European Union's funding instrument for the environment and climate action,created in 1992. Every year, the European Commission, which manages the LIFEprogramme, launches a call for proposals and, on the basis of criteria thattake into account the multi-annual strategic programme and national priorities,determines which of the proposed projects can benefit from financial supportfrom the LIFE programme and regularly publishes a list of these projects.
Rewilding Europe is a non-profit foundation based in the Netherlands since 2011. As an independent organisation, Rewilding Europe has established itself as a pan-European initiative, operating at the forefront of rewilding efforts on a European scale. Together with numerous partners at European, national and local level, Rewilding Europe is active in ten major rewilding landscapes across Europe.
