
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


For the past few decades, Scotland's wildcat population has been clinging on by a claw. Through historic persecution, habitat loss and more recently, issues with hybridisation with feral and domestic cats, their numbers here have dwindled to practically nothing.
Saving Wildcats is the first dedicated conservation breeding for release project for the species, and the team here are hard at work to restore this iconic mesopredator back to the wild.Â
By James Shooter5
1111 ratings
For the past few decades, Scotland's wildcat population has been clinging on by a claw. Through historic persecution, habitat loss and more recently, issues with hybridisation with feral and domestic cats, their numbers here have dwindled to practically nothing.
Saving Wildcats is the first dedicated conservation breeding for release project for the species, and the team here are hard at work to restore this iconic mesopredator back to the wild.Â

2,036 Listeners

4,868 Listeners

67 Listeners

418 Listeners

98 Listeners

648 Listeners

988 Listeners

982 Listeners

14,597 Listeners

3,119 Listeners

820 Listeners

54 Listeners

128 Listeners

561 Listeners

110 Listeners