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Highland wildcats add to record breeding year for endangered species

Updated: December 18, 2020, 1:20 pm © Highland Wildlife Park Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Wildcats born in the Highlands have added to a record breeding year for the endangered species. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which runs the Highland Wildlife Park and Edinburgh Zoo, reported 57 wildcat kittens have been born within the UK conservation breeding programme this year. In total, 22 litters of kittens were welcomed across 10 of the zoos, wildlife parks and private collections working with the wildlife conservation charity, compared to 24 kittens at 11 collections in 2019.

New wildcat breeding enclosures being built at Highland Wildlife Park

New wildcat breeding enclosures being built at Highland Wildlife Park © Forestry and Land Scotland Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Eight new conservation breeding enclosures for wildcats are to be built at Highland Wildlife Park. Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has been helping Saving Wildcats colleagues at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Highland Wildlife Park to kit out the new enclosures as the next stage of an exciting European partnership project gets underway.

Highland Wildlife Park animals helping conservation research

© Supplied by RZSS Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Rare animals at the Highland Wildlife Park are helping conservation research and efforts to protect endangered species around the world. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which runs the park and Edinburgh Zoo, is working with National Museums Scotland to help develop the UK’s first national zoological biobank. Biobanks are collections of biological material, such as tissue, blood, serum and DNA from species whose numbers are under threat.

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