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Eco-city designed to save the lynx

24 November 2004

How do you save the world’s rarest cat? Build a luxury housing development for people, according to WWF. The conservation organisation is planning to do just that in a bid to restore the habitat of the last 150 wild Iberian lynx.

The logic goes something like this. Under a project called One Planet Living, launched on 19 November at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, in Bangkok, the WWF, British environmental developers BioRegional and the Portuguese property developers Pelicano aim to build a complex of 6000 apartments, surrounded by restaurants, hotels and leisure facilities in Sesimbra in southern Portugal, home to…

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