Hello and best wishes for 2025. In the meantime, let’s take a quick look at 2024, covering some of the usual review topics. Illegal Wildlife Trade Social media is fuelling the illegal wildlife trade – “Social media has become a crucial tool for wildlife traffickers, experts say. A growing number …
2021 Review
In last year’s review, it was hoped that in 2021 we could start to return to some kind of ‘normality’ after Coronavirus (Covid-19) impacted the globe – it would seem we are still a long way from any guarantee of ‘normality,’ as the fight against the virus endures. On a …
Scottish Wildcat Habitat Destruction, Clashindarroch Forest
Banner image courtesy of Wildcat Haven In the past weeks, Scotland has been hosting the CoP26 UN Climate Change Conference, with pledges ‘to protect biodiversity and the planet.’ However, it has emerged today that the Scottish government and Swedish government owned energy company, Vattenfall are seemingly hell bent (in the name …
Saving the ‘Highland Tiger’
Banner image courtesy of Saving Wildcats Saving Wildcats (building on the work of the previous body, Scottish Wildcat Action) launched a project in 2020 dedicated to the conservation and recovery of the endangered Scottish Wildcat (the ‘Highland Tiger’) species. Saving Wildcats aims “to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and …