“Scotland has a history of illicit guerrilla releases,” said Darragh Hare, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, citing releases of beavers and pine ...

For more than 500 years, no lynx had roamed the British countryside. That changed with the recent release of four of these ...

Illicit releases of lynx in Scotland may undermine support for future managed programmes by feeding into narratives about ‘arrogant’ conservationists Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

He has received funding from the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund at the University of Oxford to study public perceptions of lynx reintroduction to Scotland. Hanna Pettersson does not work for ...

One of the four illegally released animals initially taken to the Highland Wildlife Park died, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) revealed on Saturday. The surviving lynx from the second ...

But not this way. Four lynx — a medium-sized wildcat that disappeared from Scotland hundreds of years ago — were spotted in the Scottish Highlands in recent days, raising concerns that a ...

“It was just announced on Police Scotland’s Facebook page that there were two more near us,” Zara said. Despite initial worry for their own animals, Zara said once she saw evidence the lynx ...

Jan. 10 (UPI) --Police in Scotland said two lynx cats have been spotted on the loose in an area where two other felines of the species were rounded up one day earlier. Authorities captured two ...

But not this way. At least two lynx, a medium-sized wildcat extinct in Scotland for hundreds of years, were spotted in the Highlands on Wednesday, raising concerns that a private breeder had ...