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In Explore ~ October 6th 2008 ~ Position Unknown.

Wildcat - Wingham Wildlife Park, Kent, England - Sunday September 21st 2008.
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Learn all about the Scottish Wildcats here - www.scottishwildcats.co.uk/

From the above website ~ Scotland's Cat; 400 and counting...

Far back in the history of Scotland clans formed together under the image of the wildcat and fought wars for the independence of the land. Today less than 400 Scottish wildcats remain in the wild and the extinction of Britain's last large mammal predator could come within the next decade.

Welcome to the home of the Scottish Wildcat Association, a new charitable organisation dedicated to protecting and conserving Britain's only remaining wild species of feline; the Scottish wildcat.

No angry tabby or feral the wildcat is a genuine wild species of feline; it was here long before we were and long before the domestic cat had even evolved! The Scottish wildcat is infamously the only wild animal to be completely untameable, even when captive reared; they may look a little like your pet cat but these are incredibly tough superpredators, sometimes called the Tiger of the Highlands.

Sadly, our wildcat is critically endangered with only 400 individuals remaining in the wild and barely a handful in the captive breeding population. Currently acting as advocates for the wildcat to the general public and media, in the near future we plan full charitable registration and the launch of a number of campaigns to raise awareness of this extinction threat and of the ways to prevent it. We are also already supporting scientific research, helping gather eye witness sightings for the official SNH wildcat survey, and maintain close relations with the captive breeding program and encouraging wildlife parks and breeders to sign up to it.