“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 ...

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 ...

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

illegal release of four individuals of a species long extinct in the area, media reports say. A pair of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) were first seen in snow-covered Cairngorms National Park on Jan.

The publication says that the lynx went extinct between 500-1,300 years ago, which has majorly impacted local wildlife in their absence. Deer populations in the Highlands have skyrocketed without the ...

Although they’ve been extinct in wild in the UK for more than a thousand years, this is the second time in just three days that Lynx have been spotted in Scotland. On Wednesday, January 8 ...

Andy travels back in time to replace the museum's prized prehistoric tumbleweed.

The second week of January was notable in the Highlands for a good amount of snow, back-to-back weather warnings and the illegal release of four lynx cats. Lynx have been extinct in Scotland for ...