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Wildcats could be released in England for first time in hundreds of years

Wildcats could be released in England for first time in hundreds of years

November 30, 2022November 26, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Wildcats could be released in England for the first time in hundreds of years as the Wildlife Trusts recruit an expert to help introduce them back into the wild. After being hunted to extinction, the European wildcat is now the UK’s rarest native mammal. They are larger than the domestic cat, which are bred from […]

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Wild Cat Finnigan Was Found Roaming the Streets After Fleeing the Tiny Apartment He Was Forcefully Kept In as a Pet

Wild Cat Finnigan Was Found Roaming the Streets After Fleeing the Tiny Apartment He Was Forcefully Kept In as a Pet

July 7, 2022July 1, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Meet Finnigan! He is currently living at wildcat ridge sanctuary. Finnigan was a former pet, and as many owners come to realize, wildcats were not made to be pets. His previous owners were keeping him in their small apartment, and when Finnigan saw his chance to escape, he ran for his life. He was found […]

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Scotland changes course to save its last native wildcats

Scotland changes course to save its last native wildcats

July 4, 2022July 1, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Great Britain has lost its entire suite of top land predators over the past few thousand years: wolves (Canis lupus), brown bears (Ursus arctos) and lynx (Lynx lynx) have all vanished from the island, largely due to habitat loss, hunting and persecution. Now it’s on the verge of losing a much smaller one, and its […]

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Where the wild things are: a trip to Romania’s southern mountains

Where the wild things are: a trip to Romania’s southern mountains

November 12, 2021November 10, 2022 Supertrooper 1 Comment

From this pile of logs onwards, we need to be completely silent,” says Georg Messerer, our guide through Romania’s southern Carpathians. His head cocks 45 degrees as a bird starts chirping. “Nuthatch,” he whispers, reaching for his binoculars. “And two red deer.” Georg directs our gaze to a row of apple trees, where sure enough, […]

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Wild beaver numbers surge to 1,000 across Scotland’s southern Highlands

Wild beaver numbers surge to 1,000 across Scotland’s southern Highlands

August 20, 2021August 16, 2021 Supertrooper 2 Comments

Wild beavers have colonised lochs and rivers across the southern Highlands of Scotland after a sharp surge in their numbers. A survey by NatureScot, the government conservation agency, estimates 1,000 beavers now live in the wild, reaching rivers north of Dundee in the east, westwards to Crianlarich, north of Loch Lomond, and south to Stirling […]

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Wildcats return to Netherlands after centuries’ absence

Wildcats return to Netherlands after centuries’ absence

August 13, 2021August 9, 2021 Supertrooper 2 Comments

They disappeared centuries ago, but wildcats have returned to the forests of the southern Netherlands, local conservationists have said. The wildcat, which has longer legs and a flatter head than its domestic cousin, disappeared from modern-day Dutch territories in the middle ages as a result of hunting and forest clearance. The return of the animal, […]

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Scottish legal battle begins over licences to shoot beavers

Scottish legal battle begins over licences to shoot beavers

June 10, 2021June 5, 2021 Supertrooper 3 Comments

Wildlife campaigners are suing Scotland’s nature conservation agency for allowing farmers to kill wild beavers, arguing that it is in breach of its duties to protect vulnerable species. Trees for Life, a charity that campaigns for rewilding, has accused NatureScot of failing to protect beavers and insists the animals should be humanely trapped and relocated […]

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Researchers take up the cause of the mysterious and maligned Chaco eagle

Researchers take up the cause of the mysterious and maligned Chaco eagle

May 4, 2021May 3, 2021 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Fénix, a female Chaco eagle, lived at San Rafael Zoo in Mendoza province, Argentina, until the zoo shut down in 2016. She was later transferred to the Buenos Aires Ecopark, an old zoo that had been converted into a research center, hospital and shelter for animals without a destination. There, she began a difficult training […]

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