FK9 4LA Launching the consultations a lynx roadshow will tour the Scottish sites in the first week of March.
The lynx is thought to have become extinct in the UK during the medieval period, around 1,300 years ago.

Bison have since been reintroduced into several other European countries, and last week it was announced that the UK would be the latest of these. They used the model to assess how the lynx would establish a population, spread and colonise new habitat from each potential reintroduction site over a period of 100 years. The study was led by University of Stirling PhD researcher Tom Ovenden as part of his Masters in Environmental Forestry at Bangor University, with support from the University of Aberdeen. From there, the research suggests, the lynx could spread to the rest of the Highlands over the next century. Stirling

Any future reintroduction would have to be carefully planned, widely consulted on, and rigorously assessed against national and international guidelines. Reintroducing wild lynx into Scotland would result in the "top end predators" spreading across the entire Highlands within a century, according to a study. Last modified on Sun 12 Jul 2020 04.51 EDT. We applied this approach to the potential reintroduction of Eurasian lynx in Scotland – and demonstrated the power of this new, sophisticated model. It would be hard to argue that the abundance of their favoured prey species, roe deer, across Scotland would be a limitation. The most ambitious and high profile rewinding project in the UK - with six lynx being reintroduced to Kielder for a five-year trial period - has received a boost.

A small herd is to be released into Blean Woods near Canterbury in Kent, introduced into the Knepp estate in West Sussex last year. The arguments for a lynx reintroduction are numerous, from calls to restore an ecological balance, using lynx to help control spiralling deer numbers, through to economic and tourism potential. All rights reserved. The Stirling University study suggests three sites would be suitable for the animal - the Scottish part of Kielder Forest in the Borders, Aberdeenshire and the Kintyre Peninsula.

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Landowners covering 700km2 of potential habitat for the medium-sized cats have now approved access. Kielder Forest was always the least suitable location for a lynx reintroduction from those we tested, with only a 21% chance a population would still exist after 100 years. The bison story will be featured on BBC Countryfile, on Sunday 12 July on BBC One. They can also reduce fox numbers. Using current land cover data, Mr Ovenden conducted an initial study to establish the current location and extent of suitable forest habitat for lynx in Scotland, updating historic work.