Action Plan for Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx Conservation and Management 2018-2022.

The Action Plan for Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx Conservation and Management 2018-2022 is a sectoral plan of Latvia. The purpose of the Action Plan is to maintain a favourable status for the lynx population in Latvia for an unlimited period of time and to promote the maintenance of a favourable status in the Baltic lynx population without specifying the maximum number of individuals and habitats, while ensuring the presence of lynx as a united and functional component of the wildlife environment in a man-made and managed landscape, respecting and promoting the quality of life and well-being of a diverse society. For defining this objective, the previously described situation analysis for the scale of the Latvian and Baltic region was used as well as the concept of coexistence of large carnivores and humans, described extensively in the IUCN Manifesto for large carnivore conservation in Europe. To achieve this goal, general long-term tasks that have been defined in the previous Action Plan should be continued or initiated and continued throughout the future conservation process, and short-term tasks must be implemented in the nearest future, which, once implemented or completed, will ensure long-term conservation measures.