Katharine Hay hears from the farmers living where the lynx were dumped as the mystery of these big cats’ origin continues

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Lynx Scotland: Inside the rural community where four big cats were illegally released

Four lynx illegally released in the Scottish Highlands are likely to have been abandoned by their owner rather than released by a rogue rewilding campaigner, experts believe.

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Lynx found in Scottish Highlands likely ‘dumped by pet owner’ rather than by rewilding campaigner

One expert described the releases as putting a 'bulldozer' through reintroduction progress.

Where could lynx illegally releasd into the Highlands have come from?

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Four lynx were recently released in the Scottish countryside. Ondrej Prosicky / shutterstockFor 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. This was an action that is widely assumed to be linked to attempts to reintroduce species that had been wiped out in Britain, as part of a wider rewilding movement. Supporters of thes…

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

Scottish animal activists have been fighting to reintroduce the creatures to the Highlands, despite the fact that they've been extinct for hundreds of years.

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Rogue Lynx Spark Debate About Scotland’s Plans To Reintroduce the Wildcats

IT has been announced that one of the lynx captured last week after being illegally released in the Highlands has passed away.  The death of the big cat comes after the two lynx were captured overnight on Wednesday last week, before another two were later spotted and captured on Friday.  The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) worked alongside Police Scotland to safely trap the cats and house them in quarantine facilities in Edinburgh Zo…

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Postmortem underway as one of four illegally released lynx dies after capture in Highlands

One lynx has died after four were illegally released into a popular hiking area in the Scottish Highlands last week

Lynx Scotland: Inside the rural community where four big cats were illegally released

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