“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 ...

However, studies suggest that it went extinct in Scotland more than 1,300years ago due to habitat loss and hunting. Various organizations are considering reintroducing the lynx to Britain ...

LONDON (AP) — One of four lynx thought to have been released illegally in the Scottish Highlands has died within hours after it was captured, wildlife authorities said Saturday.

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. 8 ...