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One of the UK’s rarest species is heading for a record-breaking breeding season in the Highlands, its last remaining habitat.
Keepers at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) are caring for more critically-endangered pine hoverflies than ever before at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig.
The species, which plays an important role in the ecosystem as a pollinator, is so rare in the UK that no one has seen an adult pine hoverfly in the wild for more than eight years.
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London, UK - 14th April 2021 -
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) is gearing up for a potentially record-breaking breeding season as keepers care for more Critically Endangered pine hoverflies than ever before at Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore.
Led by the wildlife conservation charity since 2016, the pine hoverfly conservation breeding programme is now responsible for the majority of Britain’s known population of the rare native species, currently only found in one small forest in the Cairngorms.
Almost all of the 156 larvae that hatched at the park last year are now becoming pupae, entering the next stage of their life cycle on their way to becoming adults. Among them are