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There are lots of wildcats living here at Highland Wildlife Park! While you can spot some of them in our Woodland Walk, many others are being cared for away from public view in the Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for release centre, as part of a European partnership project our charity is leading to save the species from the brink of extinction in Britain.
In 2022 one of our female wildcats, Rhu, moved down to Edinburgh Zoo to join Talisker, a male wildcat living at Edinburgh Zoo since 2016.
Sadly, Scotland’s wildcats are on the brink of extinction after hundreds of years of persecution and habitat loss, followed by breeding with domestic cats (known as hybridisation). Now critically endangered in Britain, there are barely a handful left and scientific research has confirmed the species will not survive without help.
The last hope for our beautiful Highland tigers is the Saving Wildcats partnership project which RZSS is leading in collaboration with NatureScot, Forestry and Land Scotland, Cairngorms National Park Authority, Nordens Ark and Junta de Andalucía.
Based here at the park and building on the work of Scottish Wildcat Action (2015-2020), the project brings together national and international expertise to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Britain by breeding and releasing them into the wild.
Find out more about the project and how you can help today.
Become an RZSS member and receive a whole host of benefits while helping to care for animals around the world.
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