Rachel Pendergrass

Jan 17, 2025 | earthtouchnews.com | Lindsay Patterson |Rachel Pendergrass

George Holmes, University of Leeds; Darragh Hare, University of Oxford, and Hanna Pettersson, University of YorkFor more than 500 years, no lynx had roamed the British countryside. That changed with the recent release of four of these large cats in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. This was an action that is widely assumed to be linked to attempts to reintroduce species that had been wiped out in Britain, as part of a wider rewilding movement.