“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 ...

Experts have criticised the illegal release of the animals as highly irresponsible - Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Lynx illegally released in the Scottish Highlands are likely to have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pictures of the lynx who were captured on Thursday. (Royal Zoological Society of Scotland) Officers said they believe the sighting was connected to the illegal release of two lynx seen in the same ...

Jan. 10 (UPI) --Police in Scotland said two lynx cats have been spotted on the loose in an area where two other felines of the species were rounded up one day earlier. Authorities captured two ...

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 ...

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 ...

But not this way. Four lynx — a medium-sized wildcat that disappeared from Scotland hundreds of years ago — were spotted in the Scottish Highlands in recent days, raising concerns that a ...

LONDON — 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. The medium-sized ...

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 ...