Lynx in Scotland: Why illegal attempts to reintroduce lost species are surprisingly common

Farmers say they predicted release of Lynx in Scotland amid illegal rewilding surge

Farmers have said they predicted environmentalists taking the law into their own hands and releasing wild animals into the Scottish countryside.

1 lynx dead, 3 quarantined after suspected illegal release in Scotland

What started out as a reported sighting of a pair of Eurasian lynx in the Scottish Highlands has turned out to be an alleged case of “guerrilla rewilding” or, at the very least, illegal release of four individuals of a species long extinct in the area, media reports say. A pair of Eurasian lynx (Lynx […]

Lynx in Scotland: Why illegal attempts to reintroduce lost species are surprisingly common

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.

4 lynx illegally released into Scottish Highlands - RZSS - Agriland.co.uk

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has announced it has successfully captured a total of four wild lynx, which were released illegally in Cairngorms, which is located in the Scottish Highlands. Working in collaboration with Police Scotland and Cairngorms National Park, experts from the wildlife conservation charity humanely trapped two of the wild cats overnight on January 9, near the Dell of Killiehuntly, where they were safely tra…

The controversy over rewilding in the UK

'Irresponsible and illegal' release of four lynxes into Scottish Highlands 'entirely counterproductive' say conservationists

Illegal release of four lynx 'could be start of rogue rewilding campaign'

EXCLUSIVE: Nature expert warns frustrated 'guerrilla' activists may have decided to 'take law into their own hands'.