Public body Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has applied for a licence to release beavers in Glen Affric in the Highlands. The glen is a large area of thickly wooded hillsides and glens with a ...

There are four lynx species - it has not been confirmed which species the Kingussie cats are - but Eurasian lynx are the largest. Adults are roughly the size of a Labrador dog. Ly ...

The Scottish Highlands offer all of these charms and ... Get stuck in with a proper wilderness hike around stag-ravaged Glen ...

If that happens, it will mark Scotland’s coldest night since December 2022, and having looked through historic stats it looks ...

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