Captive-born Scottish wildcats were released into a national park in Scotland this month as part of a European project aiming to save the elusive species. “It’s a really exciting milestone,” Helen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though many of the native predators that once roamed Great Britain were hunted to extinction, like the lynx, the brown bear, and ...

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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 ...

This lovely little kitten with a head that looks just slightly too big for its face is a Scottish wildcat, a very rare type of wildcat that has dwindled to about 400 individuals living in Britain, ...

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 ...