Fight to save Scottish wildcat

As part of a push to save the UK’s most endangered mammal, Scottish Wildcat Action has set up a website. 

Rhoda Grant, a member of the Scottish Parliament who launched the initiative, told Wildlife News Extra that the website ‘will not only help identify where our remaining wildcats are’, it will ‘glean information on hybrids and feral cat sightings’.

Wildcats live in broad-leaved forests throughout much of Europe, apart from Scandinavia. Widely persecuted in the past, populations have become isolated from each other. Wildcat bones haven’t been found in Ireland but the absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.