“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 ...

Various projects aim to reestablish lynx as a wild species in the UK after being absent for centuries, but those involved ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A Eurasian lynx has been rehomed after being removed from an animal sanctuary following major welfare concerns for several ...

"The Iberian lynx was very, very close to extinction," says Rodrigo Serra, who runs the reproduction programme across Spain and Portugal. At the lowest point there were fewer than 100 lynxes left in ...

On Friday, officers confirmed two more cats were on the loose. Police asked people to report further sightings - but not to approach the animals. There are four lynx species - it has not been ...