Captive-born Scottish wildcats were released into a national park in Scotland this month as part of a European project aiming to save the elusive species. “It’s a really exciting milestone,” Helen ...

(CNN) — Young captive-bred wildcats were set free in the Scottish Highlands last week – the first release of its kind in Britain. The cats were bred and released by Saving Wildcats, a European project ...

A conservation project says it will have to find new ways to help fund the captive breeding of Scottish wildcats for release into the wild due to the effects of Brexit. Saving Wildcats has released 46 ...

Though many of the native predators that once roamed Great Britain were hunted to extinction, like the lynx, the brown bear, and most famously the wolf, there remains a vanishingly small population of ...

Credit: Scott Brown/RZSS/Cover Images Scotland’s recovering wildcats are to become TV stars as part of a new documentary. The feisty felines are roaming rural regions of Scotland again thanks to the ...

Four critically endangered Scottish wildcat kittens have been caught on camera interacting with their doting mothers in rare footage. Video recorded by Saving Wildcats shows the kittens being cared ...

For cats in the Cairngorms there is some good news and some arguably less good news. For Scottish wildcats, a species that has been on the brink of extinction, these may turn out to be the best of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This lovely little kitten with a head that ...