In Britain, there have also been illicit reintroductions of smaller mammals, as well as insects and wildflowers that are much easier and cheaper to obtain, transport and release. Wildflower seeds and ...

“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 ...

Thanks to captive breeding programmes, and tender loving care, there are now more than 2,000 of these carnivores — Europe’s ...

The lynx were soon recaptured ... While many conservation organizations are working with the authorities to bring back species, from microscopic fungi to half-ton bison, some people are ...

Navarro the male lynx, photographed here by a camera trap [CNRLI] ...

With four species split across both sides of the Bering Strait, lynx cats have one of the more interesting stories. Age has a part to play in that. The progenitor of all modern lynxes — the ...

With four species split across both sides of the Bering Strait, lynx cats have one of the more interesting stories. Age has a part to play in that. The progenitor of all modern lynxes — the species ...

"The only feline species that was threatened at this level was the sabre tooth tiger thousands of years ago." The decline of the lynx population was partly down to more and more land being used ...

LONDON — Scottish environmental activists want to reintroduce the lynx into the forests of the Highlands. But not this way. Four lynx — a medium-sized wildcat that disappeared from Scotland hu ...