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The Scottish Wildlife Trust is a leading voluntary conservation organisation, working to protect Scotland's natural environment. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is a learned society and registered charity that maintains Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park (a safari park and zoo near Kingussie , which specialises in native fauna).
Wildlife Trusts. Scottish Wildlife Trust; Areas. ... Kempe and Wrightham, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2006, ...
The Scottish Wildlife Trust was involved in a trial reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver to Scotland. Begun in 2009, the trial ran at Knapdale until 2014. [2] [3] The beaver was given native species status in 2016. [4] Another of the Scottish Wildlife Trust's major projects is the protection of the red squirrel in Scotland.
Police Scotland and rangers from the Cairngorms National Park Authority joined the mammoth rescue effort and inquiries are being made into how the animals ended up roaming free in the park.
The report warned that certain groups of animals monitored are at risk of becoming nationally extinct in Scotland. New report shows Scottish wildlife is on the decline Skip to main content
Scottish wildcat at British Wildlife Centre, 2015. A captive breeding programme for the Scottish wildcat has been established in the frame of the Scottish Wildcat Conservation Action Plan, with wild-caught individuals that pass genetic and morphological tests to be considered wildcats with less than 5% hybridization. [30]
The Highland Wildlife Park is already home to two northern lynx, named Switch and Neon. Meanwhile RZSS is continuing to urge anyone with information about how the two lynx came to be in the area ...
The flora of Scotland is an assemblage of native plant species including over 1,600 vascular plants, more than 1,500 lichens and nearly 1,000 bryophytes. The total number of vascular species is low by world standard but lichens and bryophytes are abundant and the latter form a population of global importance.