“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 ...

Releasing lynx into Scotland will be an introduction, not a reintroduction. Lynx are primarily a nocturnal animal, they are ...

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.

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 ...