Wild Cats Uk Scotland

These majestic cats are native to the Highlands and Deeside Branch is nestled within one of their natural habitats.

Wild cats uk scotland. Working together with the project partners the UKs captive breeding holders for wildcats and international specialists in species recovery Saving Wildcats is the greatest hope for wildcats in Scotland. Wildcat Haven is a grass roots community driven conservation project. 30 could vaccinate one of the cats to protect them from disease.

Being inadvertently killed during feral cat control operation. The wild cat was once common over most of the British Isles but it is now only found in Scotland and is under threat with an estimated 400 remaining outside captivity. This species is native to Europe and the Caucasus and in Britain is confined to Scotland north of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

There are now two types of small cat on the British mainland. The fur of the Scottish wildcat is a great deal thicker than that of a domestic cat. The Scottish Wildcat is the worlds rarest cat.

A sad history of habitat loss persecution and more recently breeding with domestic cats has forced the Highland Tiger to a point where the population is no longer viable. The Scottish wildcat is the only native member of the cat family still found in the wild in Britain. These have been domesticated for some time and are brought these as pets to Britain.

The Wild Cat Felis silvestris is Britains only wild member of the cat family and bears a close resemblance to the domestic tabby cat. There have been 155 big cat sightings reported to UK police forces in the past. Thousands of years after the European wildcat comes to Britain Near Eastern cats arrive.

Now confined to the Scottish highlands wild cats disappeared from southern England in the 16th century with the last one recorded in northern England. We are the only Scottish wildcat conservation group focussed solely on saving the wildcat in the wild where it belongs. 750 could feed a wildcat for a week.