Rewilding and reintroducing species like wolves and lynx revive ecosystems but stir human fears and cultural conflicts. It’s ...
Releasing lynx into Scotland will be an introduction, not a reintroduction. Lynx are primarily a nocturnal animal, they are ...
The environmental case for the reintroduction of apex predators like wolves and lynx is strong, but the political case is ...
Chris Jagger, senior manager for Law Enforcement at Traffic, said: "Illegal wildlife trade poses a threat to biodiversity and human security on both a local and global scale, with cases in Scotland ...
There were four Lynx released in the Cairngorms Pic Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) A farmer from the Isle of ...
Beavers illegally released on the Tay in Scotland decades ago were not killed nor recaptured, due to legal wrangles about their protected status under European law. Left largely unchecked, their ...
The edges of Cumbria has been identified as one of the regions where the lynx could potentially live which is why it is included as a destination for the touring exhibition. In 2016 a scheme to ...
A pair of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) were first seen in snow-covered Cairngorms National Park on Jan. 8, then caught the next day by staff from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) along ...
For more than 500 years, no lynx had roamed the British countryside. That changed with the recent release of four of these large cats in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. This was an action ...
Was it a chilling tale of the callous abandonment of neglected exotic pets, or a reckless release by guerilla rewilders out to bring the lynx back to Scotland? These wer some of the theories at ...
In Britain, there have also been illicit reintroductions of smaller mammals, as well as insects and wildflowers that are much easier and cheaper to obtain, transport and release. Wildflower seeds and ...