Eight kittens born at the Saving Wildcats conservation centre at the Highland Wildlife Park are likely to be among the first of the species to be released into the wild in Britain.
Saving Wildcats, led by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland , is working with national and international experts on the critically endangered wildcat population.The team hopes to restore the population by breeding and releasing them into carefully selected locations in the Cairngorms National Park. Planning is under way for the first releases in 2023, and will be subject to receiving a translocation licence.
He added: “Decades of extensive research have shown their species is highly likely to go extinct in Britain if we do not carry out releases to restore our critically endangered wildcat population.”
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