Proposals to reintroduce these ‘lost’ felines to Britain have a romantic appeal to many nature lovers, but illegal releases ...

“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 ...

"Lynx, like all large wild carnivores, are always opportunistic in their habits, so do on occasion kill sheep, however only ...

While advocates highlighted the benefits of reducing a deer population that is damaging Scotland’s forests, opponents focused on the potential threat to sheep and ground-nesting birds.

“When they told us they were definitely lynx we were worried at the time,” she said. “All the sheep in fields are very close to the roadside.” After the first pair were promptly recaptured ...

“Where the lynx were released was about a quarter of a mile as the crow flies from my sheep. “Between the croft and where they were released is all forestry, with very few deer because they ...

Plans were scrapped however after the area was considered too small to support a lynx population. Livestock farmers' and their representatives also opposed the plans arguing the big cats could kill ...

The four lynx appeared to have been abandoned in a lay-by in the Dell of Killiehuntly, an area of the Cairngorms on the edge of agricultural land where cattle and sheep are reared - an area ...

AN ANGRY Cumbrian resident has claimed any move to reintroduce lynx to the Cumbrian countryside would have a serious impact on an already declining wildlife population. In a letter to The ...

Hundreds of years after lynx last roamed wild in Scotland, two have been captured in the Highlands. Then two more lynx were spotted in the same area where these wild cats were captured. Where did they ...