Scotland's endangered wildcats could be saved as part of a massive 800-square-mile rewilding plan across the Highlands. The new Affric Highlands charity has set out ambitious plans to regenerate ...

Four Scottish wildcat kittens, one of Scotland's rarest and most threatened mammals, have been born at Highland Wildlife Park. Visitors now have a better chance of spotting one of Scotland’s ...

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At the conservation breeding-for-release centre at the Highland Wildlife Park, in Kingussie, on the northwest edge of the Cairngorms National Park, Ordie the Scottish wildcat patrols his enclosure ...

learning much from the Highland Tiger project, which trialled practical wildcat conservation action in the Cairngorms National Park between 2009 and 2012. This new project is called Scottish ...

Four Scottish wildcat kittens born in Cambridgeshire could ... The cats, sometimes known as Highland tigers, are on the brink of extinction, according to research. Breeding with feral domestic ...

Two new litters of Scottish wildcat kittens have been born at a project set up to try and save the species in the wild. The Saving Wildcats programme at the Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore is ...

Keith Gilchrist, animal collection manager at Highland Wildlife Park, said: “We are thrilled to welcome five Scottish wildcat kittens born to mum, Talla, and dad, Blair, on April 2 2023.

The survey will aim to establish the size and distribution of Felis silvestris grampia, the Scottish wildcat, and to draw conclusions about the plight of Britain's last large mammal predator.