Though many of the native predators that once roamed Great Britain were hunted to extinction, like the lynx, the brown bear, and most famously the wolf, there remains a vanishingly small population of ...

A conservation project says it will have to find new ways to help fund the captive breeding of Scottish wildcats for release into the wild due to the effects of Brexit. Saving Wildcats has released 46 ...

For cats in the Cairngorms there is some good news and some arguably less good news. For Scottish wildcats, a species that has been on the brink of extinction, these may turn out to be the best of ...

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