“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 ...

In Britain, there have also been illicit reintroductions of smaller mammals, as well as insects and wildflowers that are much ...

Wildlife officials in Scotland say one of four lynx thought to have been released illegally in the Scottish Highlands has died the day after it was captured LONDON -- One of four lynx thought to ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been a wild week for Scotland, with at least four lynx being introduced illegally into the Highlands. Two were initially spotted earlier in the week and successfully recaptured. Then in a ...

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 ...

The lynx were baited into humane traps before being taken to the Highland Wildlife Park. Dr Helen Senn, head of conservation at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said: 'After ...

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 ...

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 ...