Inside Scotland's wildcat HQ - 'It's like Big Brother for cats'
The Saving Wildcats partnership is keeping an eye on the latest wildcats being bred in captivity for release into the Cairngorms.
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""It's like Big Brother for cats""
— Estelle Morgan , Other
""Wildcat conservation is really complex. It has all sorts of threats and issues and in order to restore wildcats to the whole of Scotland we need to plan long term and we need to plan at a big scale.""
— Dr Martin Gaywood , Academic
""The way to be resilient to risk is to have larger population sizes and to have populations present in multiple areas.""
— Dr Helen Senn , Academic
Key People
Head of conservation and science at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
NatureScot species project manager involved in wildcat conservation efforts.
Animal team leader from the Saving Wildcats partnership overseeing captive wildcats.
Leads the team tracking wildcats as they establish their territories.
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The Saving Wildcats partnership is keeping an eye on the latest wildcats being bred in captivity for release into the Cairngorms.
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