Scotland’s wildcats are barely hanging on by a whisker. The release of young captive-bred wildcats in the Scottish Highlands marks an important milestone as conservationists aim to restore the ...

Scotland’s wildcats are barely hanging on by a whisker. The release of young captive-bred wildcats in the Scottish Highlands marks an important milestone as conservationists aim to restore the ...

The Scottish wildcat, a population of European wildcat found only in Scotland, is a critically endangered animal. But for one local conservation group, the Scottish Wildcat Haven, they are not ...

The Scottish wildcat didn’t enjoy any sort of legal protection until the UK classified it as a protected species in 1988. Before that, trappers on the island had been harvesting their valuable ...

Scottish wildcats are on the brink of extinction and a "nationwide effort" is needed in order to save them, according to new research. Scientists at Scotland's nature agency NatureScot led a five ...

The Scottish wildcat is also highly adapted to survive in the wild with its thick, dense fur. This fur tends to have tabby markings with distinctive black and brown stripes, yet no spots.

New reports state that Scottish Wildcats, our last native feline population found only in Scotland, are “on the brink of extinction with most wild-living cats now hybrids”.

There are fresh warnings that Scottish wildcats will be extinct in the wild within months. The numbers of pure-bred cats may have fallen to about 35 individuals, conservationists say - less than a ...

Elusive, fierce, and nearly mythical - the Scottish Wildcat roams the rugged Highlands as one of the rarest and most endangered predators in the UK. In this episode, we track the Highlander Cat ...

Video footage of "functionally extinct" Scottish wildcats has been shared by conservationists, who claim that they found a family of the animals roaming an Aberdeenshire forest.