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Saving Wildcats celebrates successful first breeding season

1 October 2022 by Abbe Bates

One of the wildcat kittens that are part of the Saving Wildcats programme

The Saving Wildcats conservation partnership project is celebrating a successful first breeding season, welcoming a total of 22 wildcat kittens who could be among the first of their species to be released into the wild in Britain. Led by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), Saving Wildcats is working with national and international experts … Read more

First golden eagle in four decades for Highlands estate

17 August 2020 by Simone Brookes

A pair of golden eagles have successfully reared a chick at a rewilding estate in the Scottish Highlands for the first time in 40 years. Regarded by many as Scotland’s national bird, golden eagles had regularly been seen over the 10,000-acre Dundreggan Estate, near Loch Ness. But until now, there had been no sign of … Read more

Saving Wildcats celebrates successful first breeding season

First golden eagle in four decades for Highlands estate

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